This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The dust is finally starting to settle after a wild roller-coaster of a ride for U.S. climate policy. When all is said and done, three bills with major climate implications…
One year ago, the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAAP) was launched at COP26 with an urgent mission: to change the trajectory of greenhouse gas damage while ending…
While recent months have seen some easing in the pace of price increases, with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Food Price Index falling from the all-time-high it reached in March 2022,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a volcanic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park is an organism we can learn a lot from. Its scientific name is Fusarium strain flavolapis. It lives in an extremely…
Food and agriculture systems are on the agenda at the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP27) this year for the first time. In addition to more than 300 live events, new reports…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Problem Upstream I can pinpoint the exact moment my life changed. It was 2002 and I was driving along a dirt road in rural Alabama not far from where…
Ahead of the next United Nations Climate Conference, known as COP 27, the UN Foundation’s Managing Director of Climate and Environment, Ryan Hobert, explains why food and agriculture innovation is…
The long and continued practice of racist housing practices and policies in the United States means that Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color are the most likely to have insecure…
The fight against climate change is a story half-written, and so far, big, powerful economies have mostly been the ones to tell it. That needs to change. The shift, or…
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley spoke passionately to the United Nations General Assembly in September about the mounting debt many developing countries are shouldering and its increasing impact on…
As world leaders gathered in Paris to negotiate a new climate agreement in December 2015, more than 600,000 people in 175 countries marched in support of the process. Meanwhile, the…
Climate Change and Human Behavior (Cambridge University Press, 2022) maps out how hotter temperatures and more frequent and severe weather events can directly and indirectly alter the way people think and…