Today more than ever before, extreme weather events across the world are making it hard to turn a blind eye to the potentially devastating consequences of climate change. In April and May 2022, over one billion people in India and Pakistan suffered soaring temperatures peaking in disparate… Read More

 In the weeks that have passed since the gavel dropped on 3 June, marking an end to Stockholm+50, a handful of important questions have emerged. The unique meeting, which brought together UN member states and an incredibly diverse set of other stakeholders, was both a commemoration and an… Read More

With 2022 marking 50 years since the world first came together to take action on the environment, the enormity of the environmental emergency the planet is facing is now sharply in focus. Earlier this year, countries gathered to take action on climate change at COP26 in Glasgow. There, a… Read More

The current buzzword of climate talks is overconsumption—and for good reason: we've collectively surpassed the 100 billion tonnes mark in fulfilling our wants and needs for goods, both the necessary (housing and food) and the trivial (consumables like fast fashion and disposable items). Just five… Read More

Stockholm+50 is a crucial opportunity to commemorate the 1972 Stockholm Declaration and chart a common path for the next 50 years of environmental multilateralism. This time, however, indigenous people, particularly our youth, must be included in the conversation and our voices heard.   The… Read More

In a war-stricken, Covid-hit, increasingly poor and polarized world, climate change may undeniably be one of the many major challenges that the world faces today. However, notwithstanding its highly complex and catastrophic nature, there's nonetheless a very innate flicker of hope with us choosing… Read More

How macroeconomic modelling contributes to achieving SDG 13 In 1972, participants of the Stockholm Conference imagined a world, where humanity acknowledges the central role of the environment for our well-being. 50 years later, we have reached several milestones in re-adjusting human-nature… Read More

  How much of this world will remain in another 50 years if there is no emergency declaration to avert frequenting GHG emission-induced intense disasters? 50 years ago, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was created, and the world of today still lacks a sense of urgency and… Read More

As we celebrate the anniversary of Stockholm +50, we must ask ourselves a long-overdue question: How can we make “sustainable development” a reality, rather than mere rhetoric? We need to get serious about economic reform, and renew the social contract to spur the transformation of… Read More

With numerous international environmental agreements already in place, Najib Saab, Secretary General of the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED), argues that new treaties are not necessarily required, but rather the need for serious political will on implementation accompanied by… Read More