The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was adopted 40 years ago this week, after a quarter of a century of negotiations. The UN Secretary General at the time described it as "po...
When storms like Hurricane Ian make landfall, the first things they hit often are barrier islands – thin ribbons of sand that line the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It’s hard to imagine ...
Half of the world’s GDP – around $44 trillion – is highly or moderately dependent on nature. And nature is also inextricably linked with climate. Carbon is sequestered by healthy ecosyste...
Governments and businesses that embrace nature-positive policies, practices and investments stand to gain, according to a new white paper from a World Economic Forum working group on scal...
In 2022, fifty years after the birth of the environmental movement in Stockholm, action on everything from climate change to protecting nature must accelerate to avoid looming chaos and d...
From the many groundbreaking commitments heard at the COP26 climate summit to the outcomes of the first part of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP15 last October, there is a gro...
G7 leaders recently announced that “our world must not only become net zero, but also nature positive, for the benefit of both people and the planet.”
As the world continues to struggle with COVID-19, it is faced with urgent, intertwined crises: climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, pollution, and international debt. Howe...
On 5th November 2020, shortly after the US elections, the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Korean Peninsula hosted a panel discussing inter-Korean economic development ...
The world is hungry for resources to power the green transition. As we increasingly look to solar, wind, geothermal and move towards decarbonization, consumption of minerals such as cobal...
Economists believe that we are in the midst of a “reverse radical” recovery. This economic trajectory is the mirror image of the square-root symbol: a steep economic decline, followed by ...
Biodiversity is critically important – to your health, to your safety and, probably, to your business or livelihood.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, global media is reporting on a “silver lining” of the crisis: that nature is getting a break as people are forced to stay home. Penguins on the stre...
Are we living within nature’s limits? Or are we putting ourselves at profound risk of climate change, resource scarcity and a depleted world? Does the Fourth Industrial Revolution offer n...
Would you be interested in investing in companies that produce nuclear weapons? Or companies that damage the environment, pollute our seas or violate human rights? Or companies that have ...
