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Whitley Fund for Nature – 30 amazing years.
Young People,Nature & Natural Capital
November 17, 2023
Nearly 30 years ago, when I was scrabbling around to find a few people to provide start-up funding for what became Forum for the Future, Edward Whitley stepped up and took a punt on our “crazy idea”. What made this all the more remarkable was that Edward had just launched his very own “crazy idea”,…
Pity the Eight Billionth Child on Planet Earth
Society,Population,Farming,Nature & Natural Capital,Food
November 6, 2022
I hope you’ve got Tuesday November 15th marked up in your diary? According to the UN’s population wonks, that’s the day when the eight billionth human being will be born. Not sure how they know that quite so precisely, and I certainly don’t recall them being that precise back in 2011 when the seven…
Weighing War Criminals in the Balance
Climate Change,Intergenerational Justice,Nature & Natural Capital
March 24, 2022
There is near universal consensus in the West that Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. Calls to set up a Special Tribunal under the International Criminal Court in The Hague, sooner rather than later, are growing stronger by the day. However, in the pecking order of war criminals out there, right…
COP26 is Dead. Long Live COP27!
Climate Change,Nature & Natural Capital,COP27
November 26, 2021
Glasgow is what it was: not an outright failure, but falling so far short of what is so urgently needed in the real world (1.5 degrees C and all that) as to leave almost everything still to play for – as in Sharm el-Sheikh, in a year’s time. So, is there any reason to suppose we’ll be in a…
The Aotearoa Circle: An Initiative for Our Times
Government,Business,New Zealand,Nature & Natural Capital
May 4, 2021
Back in 2016, I sat down in Auckland with a very good friend of mine, Rob Fenwick, to share our frustrations at the difficulty of getting New Zealanders to understand the critical importance of New Zealand’s natural wealth – its soils, forests, biodiversity, rivers, coastlines, oceans and so on. We…