'Deglobalisation' Is the Way to Reduce Inequality
The race of globalisation is leaving the majority of the world’s population far behind. According to Unicef, the richest 20% of the population gets 83% of global income, while the poorest quintile has...
View ArticleFocus on the Global South Contributes to TNI's "Shifting Power" Reader
Focus on the Global South co-founder Walden Bello and staff members Pablo Solon, Afsar Jafri, Joseph Purugganan, and Dorothy Guerrero have contributed to a new reader from Transnational Institute (TNI)...
View ArticleClimate Change: Not Just Any Action Will Do
On Sunday, hundreds of thousands gathered in New York for one of the biggest marches against climate change.
View ArticleHow Did Leaders Respond to the People’s Climate March?
About 400,000 people went to the streets on September 21st to ask for real actions to address climate change. It was the greatest climate march in history. The UN Climate Summit organized by Secretary...
View ArticleNotes for Understanding the Lima Outcome
Pablo SolónDecember 20, 2014The “Lima call for climate action” which came out of the recent UN climate talks, establishes a roadmap to a post-2020 agreement that will be weaker than the ongoing Cancun...
View ArticleBehind the climate negotiating text for COP21
The future lies in the past. What has happened will determine what will come. The idea that we can change everything and save the world at the last minute is exciting in movies but it does not work in...
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