The Igarapé Institute is launching the latest edition of the Global Futures Bulletin at COP27. Published quarterly, this report draws attention to the world’s greatest challenges and innovative solutions, leveraging perspectives from the Global South to tackle the three main elements of the planetary crisis:
The world is confronting multiple intersecting geopolitical events with highly unpredictable consequences
Igarapé Institute co-founder and president Ilona Szabó has been named to the newly created High-Level Advisory Board of the United Nations Secretary-General. She joins 11 other publicly acclaimed figures including former heads of state, sitting government authorities and eminent scholars who will be tasked
The publication “A green economy can deliver zero deforestation in the Amazon by 2030” details why an end to deforestation and degradation is imperative to “protect our planet” as well as how it can be achieved. A rapid acceleration of the green economy — upon
The publication “The case for engaging cities in the new multilateralism” analyzes the role of engaging cities in the new multilateralism.
The publication “Rethiking Multilateralism – Mapping nuclear non-proliferation” maps out networked multilateralism, including in relation to nuclear non-proliferation initiatives. The principal goal is to determine if there is utility in mapping the networks that characterize state and non-state commitments to international treaties, conventions and agreements.
The COP26 in Glasgow may be the world’s last best chance to confront the most pressing global catastrophic risk of our time
Cities are the front line of climate change as perpetrators, victims, and problem-solvers
The publication “Workers: new social contract proposal” calls for a new social contract, emphasising green, equitable and inclusive recovery and resistence, and urge commitment to demands in line with the Sustainable Development Goals. The document is part of United Nation’s Secretary General Our Common Agenda.
It is conceivable that 2021 will be remembered as the year we reached a climate action tipping point — and not a moment too soon
The publication “Rethiking Multilateralism – Assessing Global Vaccination Measures to Address Covid-19” shows how the vaccination landscape is changing rapidly during the coronavirus pandemic. A new multilateralism coupled wih investments of US$ 50 billion could avoid up to US$ 9 trillion in costs to the
Yet now more than ever, humanity’s collective future hinges on effective cooperation
The world is facing interconnected and complex global challenges
The world is facing multiple connected, cascading and compounding mega-threats. These challenges range from climate change, pandemic outbreaks and deepening inequality to massive digital vulnerabilities and nuclear proliferation. Yet global cooperation to address these and other issues is in short supply. More than ever, governments
The U.S. military responded less than 48 hours later with an unmanned airstrike in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province
After all, they’ve been buying, pilfering and seizing them from ANDSF forces for almost two decades.
Nuclear weapons are without doubt the most indiscriminate and inhumane weapons ever conceived
This map shows how economic power moved from east to west over the course of centuries — and then snapped rapidly back east over the past few decades
The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming virtually every aspect of our lives.
Mongabay caught up with Igarapé Institute co-founder Robert Muggah this week to discuss Ecocrime, a new data visualization platform that combines visual storytelling with access to raw data on environmental crime in the Amazon.
Robert Muggah contributed to this report that aims to campaign to halve violence by 2030 with cities around the world.
The Igarape Institute has prepared a series of products on the relationship between climate security and violence in West Africa.
Globalization is the most progressive force in the history of humankind.
As part of this launch, the Igarape Institute is releasing a new report – The Ágora is under attack: a typology for the analysis of the closure of civic space in Brazil and in the world
This article is part of a series in which leading experts reflect on emerging trends for cities seeking to address hate, polarisation and extremism.
JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, is turning to blockchain to ensure the traceability of the tens of thousands of cattle it processes every day in Brazil, following intense pressure from both investors and activists over its environmental record.
At the United Nations, the world’s longest Zoom meeting is underway as presidents and prime ministers meet virtually amidst a pandemic that has killed almost a million people, an economic depression with no modern parallel, and a tide of polarization and division that threatens the social fabric in many countries.
The world’s longest Zoom call is underway at the United Nations General Assembly today.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro defended his administration’s record protecting the Amazon rainforest, telling the United Nations’ virtual meeting of global leaders on Tuesday that his country has been wrongly portrayed as an environmental villain. Bolsonaro’s critics were quick to pick apart his claims.
Even before the tumultuous arrival of COVID-19, many parts of the world were suffering from dangerous polarization and division.
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