Our present day water situation is the result of human negligence and behaviors that have destroyed this natural resource. Michelle A. Urrea Vivas discusses how the scarcity of water, its over-exploitation, contamination by industrial, commercial, agricultural, and residential activities evidences how inefficiently and unsustainably this resource has been handled, to date.

Pedro Mariani discusses why international cooperation on climate change has substantially failed so far and whether we should hope for better outcomes in the near future.

In Rebecca Henderson’s new book, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, there opens a new path for the future of capitalism, a ‘journey’ that offers rewards, but is demanding.

As climate-induced wildfires and hurricanes ravage America, our lives, our livelihoods, and the stability and security of our financial markets are in danger. Steven Rothstein and Veena Ramani, from Ceres, discuss how climate change is a systemic risk and we need our elected representatives to use their power to hold regulators to account for immediate climate change action.

Sustainable, regenerative, and circular business models are not simply an ethical choice, it is the next frontier of innovation and growth. Tze Ni Yeoh discusses what is the circular economy and how can businesses benefit from it.

There are a little over 60,000 individual species of trees in the world. More than 11,000 of these are at risk of extinction and 3,300 are critically endangered - meaning that without intervention, they will become extinct. Doris Honold discusses how U.K.-based Botanic Gardens Conservation International and their Tree Conservation Fund are working with communities to save trees from extinction.