Economics and policy

Workers will build the green transition: their rights and lives must be enhanced in the process.

'Perspectives on a Global Green New Deal' brings together voices from around the world calling for international climate action.

If the coronavirus pandemic provides an indication of our collective ability to cope with shocks, the future of the climate crisis does not look pretty.

Long Read: Economics has been dominated by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of success. But ecological economics measures welfare and sustainability instead.

Renewable energy projects set to create 10 million new jobs globally - with 625,000 in the UK alone.

Tim Jackson's latest book Post Growth: Life After Capitalism is 'written almost as much in poetry as in prose'.

If you want a vision of our green future, imagine a Millennial working a zero-hour contract in a care home, looking after a lonely bed-ridden Boomer – forever.

Working less is both necessary and desirable from an environmental perspective.

The false narrative that population growth is a key driver of ecological crisis accuses and puts the onus on people in the global south.

Nine new vaccine billionaires have a combined net wealth of $19.3 billion - enough to fully vaccinate all people in low-income countries.

The pandemic confirms that capitalism is a clear and present danger to human existence.

George Monbiot is appearing tonight at an event co-hosted by The Ecologist on consumerism and ecological crisis. Tickets still available.

The shadowy parallel court system of major trade agreements makes it difficult for countries to ban broad-spectrum insecticides.

Climate breakdown risks a supercycle where the price of goods - including food - rises as supply breaks down. So who is going to pay?

Now is the time to be bold, and to envisage a holistic, green recovery linking human wellbeing with the health of ecosystems.