Opinion / #UN
Policy & Finance
Global rollback of women’s rights puts SDGs at risk
Sexual and reproductive health and rights are key to achieving development goals and their erosion has clear, serious consequences.
Policy & Finance
Green crime goes global
Environmental crime has become so extensive that it is reshaping the global policy agenda, evolving from a niche concern to an urgent topic of international diplomacy.
Policy & Finance
Indigenous knowledge is a living science, stop stealing it
More recognition, private sector investment is needed to protect Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge that preserves nature.
Carbon & Climate
Finishing what the world started at the UN Ocean Conference
Against a backdrop of global uncertainty and questions about whether multilateral processes can still deliver, the countries represented at the latest UN Ocean Conference were largely united on the need for a more ambitious response to the challenges facing our ocean. Here is what needs to happen now.
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27 May 2025
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Policy & Finance
The business case for a sustainable blue economy
15 April 2025
Policy & Finance
Can COP30 succeed where COP29 failed?
24 March 2025
Transport
Can the shipping industry decarbonise?
Policy & Finance
Aid cuts could erase women from public life
27 February 2025
Carbon & Climate
DeepSeek’s AI disruption: Implications for global climate policy
10 February 2025
Manufacturing
Fast fashion has a serious coal problem
Policy & Finance
Trump’s withdrawal from WHO will not make America great again
Carbon & Climate
Early warning systems save lives but more funding is critical
12 January 2025
Policy & Finance
It’s time for a UN ‘universal declaration on nature’
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Policy & Finance
Did COP29 fail women?
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Policy & Finance
Universities as ministries for sustainable futures?
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