Perspectives

Covid-19 reveals why equitable water access is crucial – and long overdue

Perspective / Clean, accessible water is a human right, and universal access is essential to global health. Effective water planning can help us get there.

9 April 2020 / About Food and agriculture, Planning and modelling, Sanitation, Water resources and Wellbeing

Young woman with her grandmother, discussing the coronavirus, both with protective masks on their faces.

Covid-19 is also a crisis of care

Perspective / The pandemic is shining a light on inequalities. In the recovery, we must rethink the dynamics that shape them.

6 April 2020 / About Participation and Wellbeing

Empty seats in a plenary room during a UN climate change conference

Two opportunities to seize now COP26 is postponed

Perspective / Reforming the process of international climate negotiations and realising that we are all in this together - two opportunities created by the COP26 deferral.

2 April 2020 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Finance and Mitigation

Access to water and Covid-19: seven measures countries in Asia can take now

Perspective / Handwashing is the most effective way to prevent the spread of Covid-19 provided the poor and vulnerable have access to clean water.

2 April 2020 / About Sanitation and Water resources

Business people walking through at city at dawn.

Key issues for a sustainable Covid-19 recovery

Perspective / How do we make the pandemic recovery sustainable, just and resilient?

1 April 2020 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Disaster risk, Finance, Fossil fuels, Sanitation and Supply chains

The Sendai Framework is five years old: are we on track to meet disaster risk reduction targets?

Perspective / Five years after the Sendai Conference, looking at what has been achieved.

18 March 2020 / About Climate policy and Disaster risk

Sami woman in red winter jacket, traditional red Sami hat and red wraparound sunglasses herding reindeer in northern Sweden

Sámi lands and hydroelectric power in Sweden – what’s the potential to redress harm and injustice?

Perspective / A new legal study shows how new environmental requirements could offer the chance to address injustices surrounding hydro-projects on traditional Sámi lands.

20 February 2020

Can a carbon tax replace the Green New Deal?

Perspective / A “tax-and-dividend” proposal is gaining bipartisan support in the US. It’s a start, but policy-makers should not let it replace a broader, equitable plan.

17 February 2020 / About Climate policy

Four pointers for sustainable urban sanitation

Perspective / Success for the world’s urbanization hotspots depends on matching sanitation services to city realities.

11 February 2020 / About Cities and Sanitation