Honoring the Blue Berets
The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, 29 May, offers an opportunity for the global community to pay tribute to the uniformed and civilian...
Vaccinating Every Country
The COVID-19 pandemic will not truly end until everyone has access to vaccines, including people in the poorest countries. Worldwide vaccination offers the best...
Gender disparity hinders ‘building back better’
Even before the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 virus had subsided in many countries, more infectious second and third waves of the virus have appeared...
G7 Must Act to Vaccinate the World
‘Nobody is safe until everyone is safe’ is the defining mantra of the COVID-19 era. It captures a fundamental truth. Faced with a virus...
Overcoming Water Scarcity Naturally
We must overhaul agriculture, by far the biggest consumer of water, to get more ‘crop per drop’. Incentives for intensive production that disregards wetlands,...
Climate Constitutionalism
In January, the Netherlands hosted a digital Climate Adaptation Summit where representatives of governments from around the world discussed their post-pandemic recovery plans. To...
Tackling the Global Learning Crisis
Education has emerged as one of the most consequential casualties of the pandemic. According to estimates from UNESCO, around 1.6 billion students across more...
Triple Win for Oceans, Climate, and Us
Last November, something happened in the middle of the South Atlantic that was unusual enough to make a local northern rockhopper penguin raise one...
Unleashing the Climate Market
Progress against climate change has long crept at a snail’s pace, and the costs of inaction are increasingly clear to see. Hardly a week...
Vaccination Opportunity for Global Health
Evolutionary pressures accompanying the spread of the coronavirus have driven the COVID-19 pandemic into a phase in which new variants are starting to pop...
