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Why climate finance is no longer enough
Oped, Published on 11/11/2025
» With the UN Climate Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, kicking off, it is clear that the world's widely shared commitment to a just energy transition is falling by the wayside. In the year since governments signed on to the agreement at COP29 to scale up climate finance -- with a goal of mobilising $1.3 trillion (42 trillion baht) annually by 2035 -- wealthy countries have been retreating from their pledges. Worse, these signs of bad faith are coming just as the costs of climate adaptation and decarbonisation in developing countries are mounting.
Courts are shaping climate action
Oped, Published on 03/11/2025
» Amid rising geopolitical tensions, pressure to comply with climate obligations increasingly comes from courts. Earlier this year, both the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) issued landmark advisory opinions affirming that countries must address climate change, and that failure to do so may carry serious legal consequences.
Protecting workers from heat
News, Published on 02/09/2024
» Today's escalating climate crisis disproportionately affects the world's two billion informal workers. As heat waves become increasingly frequent and intense, the absence of global occupational safety and health (OSH) protections against climate-related risks leaves these workers dangerously exposed. Forced to labour in record-breaking temperatures, their health and even lives are in jeopardy.
Fight to save local journalism
News, Published on 02/10/2023
» The Washington Post's famous slogan, "Democracy Dies in Darkness", is sadly coming true in many parts of the United States. The digital age has shattered newspapers' business model, turning many communities into "news deserts" with no local journalism. Some 2,500 daily or weekly newspapers have folded since 2005, and there are now fewer than 6,500 left. Every week, two more disappear.
Why capitalism needs leaders with stoic ideals
Oped, Published on 23/09/2022
» It might seem like an obscure footnote among the history-making events of 2022, but the year of Queen Elizabeth II's death coincides with the 300th anniversary of Adam Smith's birth.
How Tolstoy hurts Putin's attempt to rewrite history
Oped, Published on 10/08/2022
» On April 10, Moscow police arrested Konstantin Goldman for brandishing a book in public. Mr Goldman had posted an image on social media in which he posed holding a copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace next to a section of a World War II monument that commemorates Kyiv's status as a Soviet "hero-city" -- a distinction given to cities that endured some of the harshest moments of the Nazi invasion. He was charged with violating Russia's prohibition against discrediting the military, a new law that carries a punishment of up to 15 years in jail.
Climate push needs female voice
News, Published on 28/03/2022
» The world is well aware that the climate crisis is one of the main stumbling blocks to sustainable development. And yet, despite the dramatic evidence of the lethal consequences of climate change, and despite possessing the knowledge, technologies and resources to fix it, we continue on the same high-carbon path that threatens our survival.
A digital bridge to much better social support
News, Published on 20/06/2021
» For all its devastation, the Covid-19 crisis does have a silver lining: it has shone a spotlight on important policy lapses -- beginning with the lack of social protection for the world's two billion informal workers. But addressing this failure will require more than social programmes; it will also require governments to bridge the digital divide.
Back plastic waste-reduction pledge with deeds
News, Published on 19/03/2019
» Plastic pollution now litters the highest reaches of Mount Everest to the lowest depths of the ocean, with recent news documenting the prevalence of micro-plastic contamination in the Mariana Trench ecosystem. The news is a sobering reminder of the pervasive and systemic threat plastic pollution poses to the environment and the food chain.