The Pope has Spoken, but Will World Leaders Act?
As the head of the catholic church and the leader of the largest ongoing historical institution today — with 1.6 billion people — it is indisputable that Pope Francis is in a position of tremendous power and influence. And influential
We Can End Hunger and Meet Climate Goals For an Extra USD 14 Billion per Year
Governments are spending unprecedented sums of public money in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in hopes of building a better world for our children and protecting the most vulnerable. Overnight, social and economic experiments almost too fantastic to contemplate have
Singapore Making Leaps In Green Finance
On October 13th, Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, had some promising news to share. Menon took (virtual) center stage as the key-note speaker of the Financial Times ‘Investing for Good’ digital conference. The announcement was the
Should Nature be Given Legal Rights?
Bangladesh is often called the “Land of Rivers” and the Supreme Court echoed this sentiment in July 2019, when it determined that all 700 rivers have standing to sue those who harm them in court. This decision marked a milestone in the rights of
How My Generation Can Contribute to the SDGs
My Discussion With Co-Authors of the Impakter Essay — 'Creating a New Social Contract for a Healthy, Just and Sustainable World' Introduction by Shannon O’Shea, co-author of the essay A few months ago, my colleague Callie King-Guffey and I had the pleasure
The Man And The Sea: The Recent Case Of Marine Pollution In Kamchatka
Sixty-eight years after the release of Ernest Hemingway's classic piece "The old man and the sea" we have come to live in an age where the relationship between humanity and water bodies has drastically changed. From the poetic fight with
Trump’s Sanctions Legacy — Ineffective, Illegal and Cruel
In one of my previous articles, “How U.S. Sanctions Are Hindering Sustainable Development,” I argued that U.S. sanctions are detrimental to Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and are more often than not counter-productive in achieving their objectives. There have been numerous
Leveraging the Ocean’s Carbon Removal Potential
To meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F), greenhouse gas emissions must reach net-zero by mid-century. Achieving this will not only require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the