Thought Leaders

Wildlife exists by way of an evolved, synergistic machinery of incidental compassion and 'biological optimism' that is thrown off-balance by human intervention.

Indigenous communities in Nicaragua are facing violence and displacement, but agroecology is helping empower the Miskito people.

Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

Radical Green New Deal pushed closer to becoming Labour policy.

Lawsuits across the world are taking big oil companies to task over climate injustice, and demanding that offenders put people before profits.

The more we learn about pollution and its impact on human health and nature, the more we must see stopping pollution as an ethical imperative for all.

America's leading scientists communicating the threat of climate change says climate impacts driving increased activism.

Explorer Victor Vescovo discovers plastic waste during the deepest ocean dive on record.

Coalition of environment and social justice groups in Southern Africa calls on the ANC to take decisive action on climate justice.

Historical Materialism 2019 focusses on disaster communism, extinction capitalism, and how to survive tomorrow.

We need to frame policy that addresses the complex drivers of gendered vulnerabilities to climate change.

A thoughtful, healthy and sustainable food system can only come when communities are empowered to make decisions for themselves.

The politics of climate change are not a question of right or left but about optimism and pessimism - the desire for or denial of the need for change.

In an age of selfishness, the achievements of Extinction Rebellion prove we are still capable of taking collective action.

The climate is in crisis but if we harness the energy and optimism of our farming entrepreneurs, we might just avoid catastrophe.

More than 200 experts use Europe Day to call for systemic changes to deal with the climate crisis, species extinction and inequality

The UK Parliament became the first in the world to declare a climate and environment emergency this May Day. What next?

A controversial new road is tearing through the most biodiverse place in Peru’s Amazon rainforest, bringing conflict and destruction. For one indigenous group, desperate for change, it also brings hope. 

Learning to work through our panic around climate change is critical if we want to build a world that escapes the trap of consumerism.

Imagine if a ‘prosperous’ society was one collectively working towards a happy, hopeful, just vision – and not increased GDP. 

French Ministries under fire for lack of presence during intergovernmental biodiversity negotiations hosted in Paris.

Reflections on time in Parliament hearing Greta Thunberg and politicians talk about climate change throw up the same conclusions.

How has our knowledge of climate breakdown changed over time, and what is it that's tempering our language and inhibiting decisive action?

Oliver Tickell met Polly Higgins, remarkable campaigner and founder of Mission Lifeforce, shortly before she died this month.