The COP28 agreement pushed for a transition from fossil fuels to achieve net zero by 2050, but compromises left many provisions ambiguous. This review analyzes those shortcomings including 14 foresight abstracts, categorized into forecasts for the coming decades, reports on required transformative adaptations, and broader assessments of polycrisis and existential risk.
World of Woes—and Proposed Global Remedies The Alliance of World Scientists warns of “code red” on the planet and an unequivocal...
Polycrisis: Probable; Remedies: Possible A wide variety of organizations and individuals have...
INTRODUCTION: Multiple Crises, Multiple Solutions. The UNDP’s latest Human Development Report (3.1) provides thorough discussion of multiple crises and “the new uncertainty...
Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals Advancing the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals requires evidence-based information and advocacy that is widely disseminated...
Our world is amid multiple crises, aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. This includes a crisis in education and learning, notably at K-12 levels,...
Download as PDF 1. Prologue: A Lose-Lose War At the time of this writing, the vicious and unwarranted Russian invasion of Ukraine is still underway, with no end in sight. The...
Reporting on a Fragile World Widely appreciated, high-quality, evidence-based information and advocacy is needed to advance the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development...
This QuickLook on Higher Education for Sustainability and Peace presents a list of PhD opportunities covering areas of one or more UN Sustainable Development Goals. Information...
Reviewed Reports: Our Common Agenda: Report of the Secretary General (UN, Sept 2021, 84p)Our Future Agenda: A Vision and Plan for Next and Future Generations (UN, Sept...
Global Sustainability Reports As the COVID-19 pandemic recedes in some countries, while spreading in others, vaccines are becoming available, although distribution is still...
Published 1 Aug, 2020. 1st update 11 Sept, 2020. 2nd Update 10 Oct,2020. Download as PDF here The COVID-19 pandemic has already changed our world and is still underway with no...
The information revolution in recent decades has produced floods of knowledge, opinion, disinformation, and entertainments in many new formats. Who should we consider for...
The full Review has been published in Cadmus Journal Vol. 3, Issue 4 and is available here: Book Review of Come On! (May 2018) Introduction Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism,...
The full Review has been published in Cadmus Journal Vol. 3, Issue 3 (p. 164-174) and is available here: Global Systems Change: Six Linked Perspectives! (October 2017)...
The full report is available here: Greening Capitalism Final, May 2017, 46 p.Greening Capitalism, Quietly: Seven Types of Organizations Driving the “Necessary Revolution” First...
As we rush headlong into the Anthropocene age, when humans dominate and disrupt the earth and its natural systems, governance of evolution becomes increasingly imperative....