The financial crisis wasn't an isolated event, but a manifestation of a new normal. A new normal characterized by extreme turbulence and an unprecedented connectivity between different global crises (economic crisis, climate crisis, food crisis, resource crisis, etc.).

The global economy exceeds the planetary boundaries, resource prices are rising,...

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One of the main differences between the dinosaurs and us is that 65 million years from now, we won't have our bones collecting dust in museums. Contrary to the dinosaurs, we have a space program and we can vote...

In Italy six seismologists have just been convicted of manslaughter for failing to predict a 2009 earthquake that killed 309 people in the Italian city L'Aquila. The verdict is interesting for several reasons. It presupposes that scientists have the ability not only to look through the Earth's crust but to...

It makes little sense to talk about growth if it's not sustainable. The United Nations launches a new index at Rio+20 that seeks to change the way we measure prosperity.

The cost of last year's extreme floods around the world amounted to billions for insurance companies and as a...

The Rio+20 summit will accentuate the management crisis that characterizes international environmental corporation. Politicians probably won't agree on anything substantial. Instead, new networks -- spearheaded by companies, NGOs and cities -- will set the agenda for the future.

"This is no way to run a planet," wrote Todd Stern,...

Arctic CO2 levels have hit a milestone. Reaching concentrations not seen in the last 800,000 years, 400 ppm (parts per million) is now being measured all across the Arctic.

World governments have in recent years repeatedly agreed to target a 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees...

Growth. Even before the concept is defined, we know what's on the agenda. It's not about plant growth, hair growth or growth in quality of life, it's about economic growth. And the kind that is measured in GDP. However, Rio+20 might mark a paradigm shift in the way we measure...