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Now more than ever, climate change is getting screen time: at film festivals, at the cinema, on television, in video and imagery streaming everywhere. What sets the new Future Forward documentary series apart is its focus on the optimism of climate solutions,...

If the world really wants to step back from the brink, it had better “walk the walk” towards a more sustainable future for all, young speakers said on Tuesday, as thousands of their counterparts from across the world gathered, in person and online, for the opening of...

Climate change threatens to make the world either inhospitable or unhabitable for billions of people. The global economy is creating more poverty, hunger, and despair. And an unjust war in Ukraine is producing disastrous consequences for vulnerable people just after a...

This September, world leaders will gather at the United Nations to mark the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) midpoint, between their 2015 launch and 2030 deadline. Despite an array of success stories and growing range of constituencies engaging on the SDGs,...

Strong headwinds suggest that 2023 will be a difficult year for global economic development. Avoiding setbacks will be at least as important as making renewed progress. Developing countries will continue to face overlapping crises with little to no fiscal space for...

The arrival of generative artificial intelligence (AI) apps like ChatGPT has been nothing short of seismic. Until just a few months ago, AI was a mysterious and obscure technology for most of us. Now millions of people are chatting with mesmerizingly powerful AI tools...

There are multiple, feasible and effective options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to human-caused climate change, and they are available now, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on 20th March...

Since the publication of the first World Happiness Report in 2012, there is a growing consensus that happiness can be promoted through public policies and the actions of business and civil society. Moreover, happiness and well-being can be usefully measured in a...

Today marks the release of the final installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), an eight-year long undertaking from the world’s most authoritative scientific body on climate change. Drawing on the findings of...

Our global water system is in crisis. Despite safe water and sanitation being a human right, billions of people lack access to these essentials for life, according to the United Nations. This month’s UN 2023 Water Conference – the first in almost 50 years – could be a...

The world is in the throes of a cost-of-living crisis. Prices of energy and food are soaring, with devastating effects on the poor. A complex combination of forces has given rise to a grim economic picture and a whole new vocabulary: “climateflation, fossilflation and...

What the climate crisis is, what we can do about it, and what kind of a world we can have is all about what stories we tell and whose stories are heard. Climate change was a story that fell on mostly indifferent ears when it was first discussed in the mainstream more...