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A Dangerous Unselfishness – Learning from Strike Actions
We are living in an era of unprecedented wealth coupled with unprecedented inequality. Richest one percent of the global population owns the 82% of the wealth created in 2017.2 ...
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International standards: Right to information
It is increasingly being recognised that governments hold information not for themselves but, rather, on behalf of the public and that, as a result, public bodies should provide...
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Who is really bearing the cost of REDD+? The answer may surprise you
Estimates of REDD+ costs have long been criticized for excluding transaction and implementation costs and undervaluing informal market activities such as subsistence farming. ...
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Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles
To guide sustainable Blue Economy decisions, 14 voluntary Principles have been proposed for the finance and investment community. These complement existing frameworks in sustain...
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Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica
Ecosystems services have become a key concept in understanding the way humans benefit from ecosystems. In Costa Rica, a pioneer national scheme of payment provides compensation ...
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‘Resilience’ across the post-2015 frameworks: towards coherence?
This paper takes as its starting point the international frameworks negotiated and agreed by the world’s governments in 2015 and 2016. These include (in chronological order) the...