Environment | Markus Hoch and Almut Kirchner 'The effects balance each other out' It's entirely possible to protect the environment and create employment opportunities. A scenario for the German economy
Environment The growing threat of water wars Less than 3 per cent of all our water is fresh. With global warming, this already leads to tensions in and between countries By Jayati Ghosh
Europe Europe’s Green Deal is turning red The European Green Deal does not just aim at combating the climate crisis. It’s also an opportunity for social change By Delara Burkhardt
Europe The revolution falters over Amulsar gold The contentious issue of gold mining in Armenia presents the Pashinyan government with a difficult dilemma By Alla Manvelyan
Global Debt jubilees in the time of climate breakdown When disaster hits, already impoverished countries find themselves in debt traps. Only a global mechanism can prevent this By Jürgen Kaiser
Asia China's institutional shake-up To reconcile rapid economic growth and climate change mitigation, China wants to mainstream environmental protection By Junjie Zhang
Europe The climate crisis cannot be solved by capitalism To fulfil the Paris Agreement, Germany’s climate policies need to look beyond market-based strategies By Kai Niebert
Global System change, not climate change A Green New Deal requires nothing less than bringing the globalised financial system under the authority of nation states By Ann Pettifor
Global Managing the next Gold Rush The seafloor is rich in minerals, but barely understood. We need to be careful not to trigger an environmental catastrophe By Sharon E. Burke
Global The dangerous delusion of optimal global warming Sophisticated economic models suggest that global warming should be limited to 3.5°C. But they're fatally flawed By Adair Turner
Gangs of the North In Sweden, gang-related crimes are on the rise. Under pressure from the right, the government reacts with tough measures
Georgia's neoliberal agony In Georgia, the state has given up on development. Neoliberalism is exhausted — there's nothing left to sell or deregulate
An empty promise of a fresh start EU policies don’t tackle root causes of migration – they risk aggravating them. And von der Leyen doesn't offer a 'fresh start'
