STWR - Share The World's Resources

Taxes on anonymous wealth and foreign exchange transactions could raise significant revenue towards climate adaptation for poorer countries. Such a proposal is not only feasible, but morally justified by the ‘polluter pays’ principle, argue James S. Henry and Dr. Brent Blackwelder.

With resource scarcity and climate change looming on the horizon, the debate on how population growth is impacting the environment and what to do about it is intensifying. Three commentators present their views in the New Internationalist.

A meaningful response to the global climate crisis requires the implementation of new models of climate resilient development. A good starting point would be to define sustainable livelihoods, rather than growth, as the overarching objective of economic progress, argues Lyuba Zarsky.

A UN-sponsored study estimates that the cost of the environmental damage caused by the world’s biggest firms was $2.2 trillion in 2008. While such an exercise raises critical awareness, is it wise to put a dollar sign on the ecosystems upon which human life on earth depends?

Global negotiations to address climate change are at a fork in the road. Will the Copenhagen Accord displace the legitimate multilateral process agreed at the 2007 Bali talks, or will it assist in reaching a binding agreement to reduce carbon emissions? By Martin Khor.

Despite four decades of environmental activism in the US, the natural world continues to be degraded by human activity. America needs a new environmentalism; a truly inclusive social movement aimed at transforming the political economy, argues James Gustave Speth.

A growing body of evidence indicates social and economic inequality as the real driving force behind many environmental problems, including global warming. For its true causes to be addressed, climate change must be redefined as a social justice issue, argues Bob Hughes.