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Biodiversity in Kanazawa: Winter’s lesson
Oil
From melon to haircuts, prices rise for Nigerians
Nigerian journalist Armsfree Onomo Ajanaku looks at the link between Nigerian fuel subsidies and the recent food price protests.
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Biodiversity
Can no-take fishery reserves help protect our oceans?
Fish stocks are being overfished and important habitats are being lost or degraded at an unprecedented rate.
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Biodiversity
From mountain to sea: A vision for the rebuilding of Tohoku
An oyster farming author shows how tsunami-hit Tohoku should rebuild by tapping into the region's rich traditions.
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Biodiversity
Put people at core of sustainable development: UN report
A new report by a high-level panel urges leaders to focus on the long-term resilience of planet and people.
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Biodiversity
Revitalising socio-ecological production landscapes
In dealing with today's sustainability challenges, what can we learn from millenia of harmonious interactions between humans and nature?
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Climate
Mind the gap: Development options for Delhi’s metro
Despite its carbon credentials and fast progress, Delhi's metro has been a controversial issue of urban policy-making.
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Biodiversity
Green economy and growth: Fiddling while Rome burns?
A UNU-IAS research fellow argues that a truly green economy can't hinge solely on technology but must be a revolution of democracy and equality.
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Biodiversity
Debate 2.0: Shark fin or sharks finished?
Do you think a blanket ban on harvesting shark fins can be considered culturally insensitive?
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Oil
Indian villagers’ lives transformed by new energy delivery system
Solar micro grids set up by a social enterprise are helping the poorest to stay connected and stop relying on kerosene.
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Biodiversity
Creating visibility for forests worldwide
UN Forum on Forests Director speaks about her highlights from the International Year of Forests in 2011.
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New visions of sustainable development governance
A team of scholars and policymakers is identifying reform options for sustainable development governance.
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Oil
Danger waters: Top spots of potential conflict in the geo-energy era
As demand rises and supply dwindles, we are entering an era in which disputes over resources will predominate.
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Food
Sahel’s food crisis gets swift response but no long-term answers
Governments are acting earlier this time, but this region's food insecurity is destined to continue.
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Oil
Responding to North Korea’s ecological vulnerability
The UN can place a greater emphasis on incentivizing the DPRK government to embrace sustainable development.
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Food
Creating an ecology of hope
In a candid Q&A, author Frances Moore Lappe talks about how to shift our mental map so as to sync human nature with nature’s rhythms.
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Climate
Investing in global climate solutions
In his ‘Sustainable Planet’ column, Jacob Park explores the United Nations climate convention-sponsored Green Climate Fund.
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Oil
Sustainable energy for all
The United Nations General Assembly has declared that 2012 is the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All.
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2011 — The year of living dangerously
The Our World 2.0 editors take a look back at the momentous year that was.
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Climate
Climate change is not child’s play
A new UNICEF study looks at the climate vulnerability of children in the East Asia and the Pacific.
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Climate
Climate change diplomacy and small island developing states
Developed countries should contribute to transparent and fair mechanisms to help small island developing states adapt to climate change.
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Biodiversity
Beyond the ‘resource curse’
Expert Raphael Kaplinsky discusses why industrialized and low- and middle-income countries need to look past their current idea of resources.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity in Kanazawa: Winter’s lesson
A look at many features of Kanazawa’s cityscape that have developed in response to the winter climate.
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Climate
Why is it so hard to save the biosphere?
Agreements to bail out banks happen in days – but despite some good progress at Durban, we still don't have a legally binding deal to bail out the planet.
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Oil
Is oil fueling the rise in US political partisanship?
Could discontent sparked by an uptick in volatility in oil prices be one reason behind why American politics of late seems to have gotten so much nastier?
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Biodiversity
Lessons from the seasons: Biodiversity in Kanazawa
An innovative UNU multi-media project explores how biodiversity influences cultural traditions in a Japanese city.
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Biodiversity
Permaculture pioneers — Stories from the new frontier
A new book featuring 25 permaculturists illustrates that ordinary people need not wait for experts and governments to lead the way to sustainability.
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Climate
Mali in the frontlines of climate change
A Young Scholar from the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre discusses climate change adaptation in one of the world's most vulnerable countries.
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Biodiversity
Ethics and environmentalism: Costa Rica’s lesson
Global environmental indicators all seem to be heading the wrong way and yet positive trends continue to emerge from a small Central American nation.
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Biodiversity
Education is the answer to sustainable development
The right information and education can change people’s values and behaviours, encouraging them to adopt more sustainable lifestyles.
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Climate
Coal study names top 20 ‘climate killer’ banks
JP Morgan Chase tops list of institutions that have financed coal-mining and coal-fired energy generation.
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Biodiversity
The killing of coral reefs and what it means
UNU reef ecology expert Peter Sale reveals the motivations behind and findings from his new book that is based on a 40-year career.
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Climate
Debate 2.0: Is a climate governance overhaul possible?
A group of experts say the world needs a reform of international governance like what followed WWII.
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Food
Alarm as corporate giants target developing countries
As affluent markets reach saturation, multinational food and drink firms are opening up new frontiers among people living on $2 a day.
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Climate
The environment in numbers: 1992-2012
A look at UNEP’s “Keeping Track of our Changing Environment” report reveals some numerical surprises.
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Biodiversity
Reclaiming the right to development
With multiple crises facing the world today, it is time for a rights-based approach to sustainable development.
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Food
Home-grown food in schools for a green economy
Brazil is linking public sector food procurement to local family-based small-scale agriculture.
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Climate
Climate change: what happens after 2100?
Our descendants, thousands of years from now, surely have a right to the same climatic stability that allowed our civilisation to flourish.
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Climate
Science wants to save us from ourselves
What with the creeping nature of climate change, too many of us are wallowing in a false sense of scientifically-ignorant-bliss.
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Climate
World headed for irreversible climate change — IEA
The world's foremost authority on energy economics finds that the world has five years left to combat climate change.
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Oil
Unity and warmth for Japan’s tsunami survivors
A recovery assistance project is using clean energy to help rebuild the lives of those affected by the Tohoku disaster.
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