Seize the Future
Winning durable change requires a policy platform that tackles the root causes of domestic economic insecurity and global instability. A record number of people can’t afford …
Global Systems & Policy Archive
Development, Debt, and Disaster Risk in ‘Nature’s Casino’
As climate-related disasters become more frequent and severe, countries in the Global South continue to bear the biggest costs of the crisis. In the most vulnerable …
Climate Justice Demands Ceasefire and Arms Embargo on Israel
Israel, with the USʼs financial and military support, is subjecting Palestinians in Gaza to apocalyptic conditions on top of the worst bombardment in their history, with …
Exporting Extinction: How the International Financial System Constrains Biodiverse Futures
This major report sets out to answer the question of why governments in the Global South have routinely failed to achieve biodiversity goals and targets. Rather …
Ceasefire now, ceasefire forever: No climate justice without Palestinian freedom and self‑determination
Climate crisis in Palestine cannot be detached from the Israeli occupation. The brutal and extensively documented apartheid regime that Israel imposes and maintains over Palestinians is …
Less War, Less Warming: A Reparative Approach to US and UK Military Ecological Damages
The US and UK militaries are two of the institutions most responsible for climate crisis in the world. Only a reparative approach can begin to account …
We Choose Now: Gulf to Appalachia Climate Action Strategy
At this moment, the United States is advancing sweeping federal actions that could fund critical climate solutions or sink us further towards climate disaster. However, the …
Blended Finance
Blended finance has become a dominant paradigm in development and environmental finance over the last 15 years. The main idea is that scarce public resources will …
Green Bonds
Green Bonds have been promoted as a financial tool for development banks and countries across the Global South to access money for climate action. But as …
Debt as a Driver of Biodiversity Loss
For the first time, there are potential decisions by the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that address the connections …