Debt-for-Climate Swaps Can Save the Planet. Why Aren’t They?
Though potentially a win-win solution for the developing world’s debtors and creditors alike, debt-for-climate swaps must be well-designed and implemented if they are to be effective.
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Unlocking the Innovation Potential of Biocultural Capital
To create a more resilient and equitable world, the fragile potentiality of our planet’s biological and cultural diversity must be converted, conserved, and constructed.
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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs
Learning from global peers and using the sustainable development goals as a framework for measuring progress, US cities are accelerating solutions to social problems.
Learning From the Climate-Mental Health Convergence
The climate movement has lessons for all social impact practitioners working to create a more just and healthy world.
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Further Reflections on Fashion’s Circularity Reckoning
Ken Pucker responds to his readers’ critiques of his Up for Debate article “A Circle That Isn’t Easily Squared” and reiterates his call for a systemic shift in how the fashion industry does business.
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Response: Increasing Environmental and Social Sustainability at the Same Time
The fashion industry could decrease its environmental impact by shifting its sources of revenue from material and energy to labor.
Response: Contextualizing the Colonial Climate Crisis in Black and Indigenous Thought
Currently, every predominant aspect of sustainability discourse and practice is white-centered. It’s time to change that.
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Response: Embracing Regulation and Fighting ‘Corporate Capture’
Funders must examine how to realistically drive measurable progress on sustainability in the fashion industry.
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Response: Collaborating Can Optimize Circularity’s Benefits
People working within fashion supply chains must collaborate to determine where and how their evolving business models can contribute to circularity.