22 April 2024 - April 22 is Earth Day and people all around the world will be celebrating the bounties that earth provides for all life. This is a good time to consider what does living "a green life" mean to us? How can we live green from a holistic systems...
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Democracy demands the EU approves the Nature Restoration Law
17 April 2024 - The EU Council, under the leadership of Belgium as current holder of the EU presidency, has “paused” the approval of the Nature Restoration Law, a decision that runs contrary to democratic norms, science and good business practice. The law is already...
Time to end impunity for petroactors
29 March 2024 - On March 18, oil and gas CEOs at the annual CERA week conference in Texas announced that the clean-energy transition is failing and that the world should ‘abandon the fantasy’ of a fossil-fuel phaseout. Two days later, the world-renowned Carbon Tracker...
The EU Nature Restoration Law could stop us from destroying ourselves
25 March 2024 - Europe is confronting environmental challenges that are unprecedented in their scale and urgency. From the alarming decline in biodiversity to the relentless march of climate change, the continent faces a series of crises that threaten not just its...
Shock as warming accelerates, 1.5°C is breached faster than forecast
27 February 2024 - If there was shock and awe last week when the Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that global average warming over the last twelve months — February 2023 to January 2024 — had exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius (°C), it was likely because too many...
New partnership charts a path for systemic change in the EU
24 January 2024 - The Systems Transformation Hub, a pioneering venture designed to drive systemic solutions for Europe, was launched on 24 January 2024 at the European Parliament by a coalition of five thought-leading organisations. This comes at a pivotal time of...
Working towards sustainable tourism in the Americas
11 January 2024 - Human beings have always travelled and even events like Covid-19 do not deter us for long. Tourism is now considered to be arguably the largest employer globally. It brings large concentrations of visitors to the most fragile sites and destinations...
To build a better world, stop chasing economic growth
02 January 2024 - The past year has given many of us reason to pause. We are losing in a race to prevent planetary tipping points — the climate is changing faster than expected, and humanity has already breached six of the nine sustainable planetary boundaries (for...
Scientists and lawyers call for ecocide law
22 December 2023 - It is now widely accepted that humanity stands at a crossroads, and with it all life on Earth. Responsible scientists know just how serious the situation is for climate and biodiversity. Responsible lawyers are increasingly supporting those...
Post COP 28 reflections
21 December 2023 - I opened up my 15th COP with this “out of office” statement. "I am at COP with 90,000+ others. Is this a circus? Yes, but with the backing of youth activists and The Club of Rome, I will continue to push for an ambitious outcome especially on...