Virus Mapping, Pandemics Preparedness and One Health: We Need Them All
COVID-19 is neither the first nor the last of major epidemics and pandemics. The impact of this infectious outbreak has led to huge ratcheting up of research and funding for therapeutics and vaccines to get a handle on this coronavirus.
Make the Market Work For People and Planet
Imagine for a moment that Earth is a business. Planet Earth Ltd. is an integrated global conglomerate, providing products and services to customers all over the world. It’s been in business a long time, with such huge capital accounts that
4 Ideas To Keep Water Clean & Available As Seen At CES2021
This year we are bringing you the most interesting innovations from CES 2021 and today we are focusing on companies working towards SDG 6 - clean water and sanitation - and SDG 14 - life below water. CES2021 in its new
2021 Set To Be a Busy Year For Climate Negotiations
The roster of multilateral events for this year is filling up quickly. IISD experts reveal why this leaves them cautiously optimistic. While 2021 could feature seven COPs, five summits, and five key conferences, these come with the giant caveat of immunization. Governments, civil
What You Might Not Know About Impact Investing, and How It Can Help Stop the Climate Crisis
Impact investing has become a fast-growing trend over the last few years, which is a good thing. Perspectives differ, however, on exactly what impact investing is. The most commonly accepted definition is that it seeks “positive impact alongside a financial
The Top 5 Green Building Words of 2020
We’re not the first to say that 2020 was “quite a year.” The pandemic that altered nearly every facet of our lives, the wildfires burning across the western U.S., waves of social change rising around the globe, and a presidential
On the Ground at the Georgia Hand Recount
Last November I volunteered to serve as an observer in Georgia for a non-governmental organization that specializes in monitoring elections in burgeoning democracies around the world. This was the first time it had agreed to do so in the United
The World Needs to Wake Up: At Risk the Survival of Humanity
At a time when the world, battered by COVID-19, is watching with dismay the rocky transition from Trump to President-Elect Biden, a group of 17 world scientists reminds us that maybe all our worries are futile. What is at risk
Agricultural Reforms in India Are Threatening Democracy
A historical landmark for postcolonial democracy was realised when Narendra Modi became the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress (INC) to achieve a full majority win in two consecutive terms. Since his rise to power, there has
Rethinking, Recreating and Redesigning a More Ethical Future With Nimco Adam
Celebrated in her native Somalia as the Queen of Tie Dye, Nimco Adam has designed for a myriad of fast-fashion companies in the past and has recently become a pioneer of global sustainable fashion efforts. In 2020, the business woman
Trump, the Republican Party and the Attack on the U.S. Capitol: An American Progressive’s View
The Rise of Republican Fascism and the Ethics of Resistance: A Review of Barack Obama, A Promised Land (New York: Random House, 2020) and Carlos Lozada, What Were We Thinking, a Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era (New York: Simon &
Five Lessons We’re Taking from 2020
“Challenging” “Sobering” “Unprecedented” Words fail to adequately describe 2020. The staggering toll of the pandemic defines this year, but so do examples of hope, unity, and innovation. And not all of those stories made headline news. In the remote communities where Root Capital