Pollution: murky depths Published: 5 November 2025 Water Atlas 2025 Plastic waste, industrial effluent, chemicals: scarcely a single body of water is safe. They threaten ecosystems, biodiversity, and human health. The solution to the wave of pollutants? A circular economy that conserves resources. Annette Jensen
The Myth of Good Plastic Published: 4 March 2021 Essay Plastic is a material that used to be a symbol of progress and modernity. Now it represents an industry that subordinates everything to profit, even if the world is ruined in the process. Barbara Unmüßig
Agricultural traders' second harvest Published: 31 October 2017 Four Western corporations dominate the global trade of agricultural products. Now a Chinese firm has joined them. Roman Herre
[COP21] The makers and profiteers of the new economy of nature Published: 20 October 2016 The call for an economic valuation of nature, and in particular for limits on pollution and the destruction of nature, is linked to the demand for a more flexible implementation of environmental laws and regulations. The idea of “compensation instead of reduction” is intended to guarantee this flexibility.
Market-compliant forest conservation (REDD+) Published: 20 October 2016 REDD is a mechanism for “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” in so-called developing countries that has been discussed in the context of the UN climate talks since 2005.
Big Polluters, Pay up Published: 26 October 2015 As the world's poorest and most vulnerable populations suffer huge losses from climate change, the entities most responsible for the problem - the so-called "Big Polluters" - continue to reap billions in profits. This has to change. Stephen Leonard
