This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a volcanic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park is an organism we can learn a lot from. Its scientific name is Fusarium strain flavolapis. It lives in an extremely…
Food and agriculture systems are on the agenda at the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP27) this year for the first time. In addition to more than 300 live events, new reports…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Problem Upstream I can pinpoint the exact moment my life changed. It was 2002 and I was driving along a dirt road in rural Alabama not far from where…
Ahead of the next United Nations Climate Conference, known as COP 27, the UN Foundation’s Managing Director of Climate and Environment, Ryan Hobert, explains why food and agriculture innovation is…
Many of the ocean’s most charismatic animals spend their lives swimming, flying or gliding thousands of miles, from the coasts to the high seas. Arctic terns, humpback whales and sea…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. GEAPP launched at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2021 with US$10 billion of committed capital, including up to US$1.5 billion in initial grant funding from The Rockefeller Foundation,…
The long and continued practice of racist housing practices and policies in the United States means that Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color are the most likely to have insecure…
Playing with my children on a beach on Hatteras Island, a barrier island off the coast of North Carolina, I struck up a conversation with a man walking his dog.…
The fight against climate change is a story half-written, and so far, big, powerful economies have mostly been the ones to tell it. That needs to change. The shift, or…
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley spoke passionately to the United Nations General Assembly in September about the mounting debt many developing countries are shouldering and its increasing impact on…
Emperor penguins thrive on Antarctica’s coastlines in icy conditions any human would find extreme. Yet, like Goldilocks, they have a narrow comfort zone: If there’s too much sea ice, trips…
As world leaders gathered in Paris to negotiate a new climate agreement in December 2015, more than 600,000 people in 175 countries marched in support of the process. Meanwhile, the…