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The World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002), the International Conference on Population and Development (1994), the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995), and the 2005 World Summit all acknowledged the pivotal and important role women play in sustainable development. However, democratic governments and institutions have yet to draft a […]

Ulrike Reinhard’s article compares democracies to authoritarian regimes and the ways these political models address environmental issues. But what about a country that is neither a democracy nor a 100% authoritarian state? Failed democracies like Russia have a high level of corruption that creates situations in which the authorities turn […]

This article was originally drafted by the Strategic Foresight Group for the newsletter “Middle East Monitor” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Chemical pollution from industries is a cause of grave concern in Jordan, particularly in central areas with heavy […]

Perhaps only a ban on the use of ethanol as a bio-fuel will prove to be a decisive weapon against climate change Are we finally destroying our environment for the purpose of mobility? Are we finally allowing 1.5 billion people, who are already pretty much starving, to die? Are we […]

What went wrong that in only fourteen months the democratically elected president Sebastian Piñera is now facing such widespread public protest? In the autumn of 2011 I saw people rioting on the streets of the Chilean capital Santiago and other major cities of the country. In the following days, environmental […]