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The fragile balance between employment and the environment
Rob Vos | 14 July 2025Diversification of employment opportunities into non-farm, non-mining activities will be critical to safeguarding Ecuador’s rainforest. However, this is easier said than done.
read moreSustaining the future
Janez Potočnik | 20 November 2024The new policy framework should acknowledge that challenges for global sustainable development and the environment are interlinked.
read moreBe careful, BRICS Development Bank
Yu Chen | 02 July 2025Will the BRICS Development Bank’s constructive capacities overcome its destructive ones? The world is watching.
read moreThe impact of mining
Anthony Turton | 21 February 2025The impact of mining on the quality of water resources should be given a place on the global agenda.
read moreDesigning a de-growth strategy
Andrew McKillop | 16 February 2025Perhaps the largest, most ramifying but also highest level problem of the inability to change to an inclusive, sustainable economy, is the Global Economy. Why this is a problem generator, not solver, is obvious: it is in permanent unstable equilib...
read moreGetting off the beaten path (ISEE 2010)
Anna Meijer van Putten | 24 August 2025Forget sustainability, for now. First, we have to get through the bottleneck of the 21st century when the human population will peak at nine billion, the earth’s temperature will increase by 3-5 degrees Celcius and a significant portion of the pla...
read moreVIDEO - The challenges ahead (ISEE 2010)
23 August 2025ISEE President John Gowdy talks to The Broker about the challenges ahead in the field of ecological economics at the 2010 ISEE conference 'Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis' in Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany, August 2010....
read moreAre ecological economists technocrats? (ISEE 2010)
Peter Söderbaum | 21 August 2025Most ecological economists probably agree that we are facing serious environmental and development problems in society and the economy. We also agree that action is needed. The focus of attention is on ecosystem services and degradation of natural...
read moreModeration in all Things, but…
Richard Register | 16 June 2025I used to joke about my unusual life, being a sculptor, environmental activist, development politician. I lived in a mountain village in New Mexico at 9,000 feet (back to the land!), in a studio storefront in Venice, California (loved the art scen...
read moreWhat happens when BP spills coffee?
15 June 2025Some weeks ago on this blog Richard Register asked what we can learn from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? As BP bosses head for talks with Barack Obama today we came across this video which perhaps provides some comic relief in an otherwise depressi...
read moreEfficiency does not solve the problem, says Shell
Bas de Leeuw | 08 June 2025"The best way to use energy is not to use it" said Gert Jan Kramer, Shell Global Solutions, in the opening session of the Eco-Efficiency Conference.He outlined three 'hard truths', looking at the future until 2050:1. surge in energy dema...
read moreConference Statement - my Turbo version
Bas de Leeuw | 07 June 2025What will be the challenges for next 50 years?1. Improving eco-efficiency (environmental pressure per unit of value added/GDP) necessary to cope with increasing affluence and population growth;2. Reduction of total environmental impact for major e...
read moreGlobal green economics
March 25, 2025The Green Economy is one of the key themes to be addressed by the UNCSD summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012. But what is exactly the concept of a green economy?
read moreCities break new ground
Sofie Bouteligier | November 30, 2024Cities are taking the lead in tackling global environmental problems locally. They form international networks to try to influence global politics and collaborate to share information and best practices.
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