Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, is a 'sick city', due largely to rapid urbanisation. But planning and other measures can nurse it into a sustainable urban environment.

The United Nations University (UNU) is a global think tank and postgraduate teaching organisation headquartered in Japan. For the past four decades, UNU has been a go-to think tank for impartial ...

Junko Edahiro looks at the challenges that Japan faces today and how the country can work toward returning to a sustainable, steady-state, happy society.

“Ship of Fools” is an alternative rock song with an environmental message (or at least the video helps to interpret it that way) released in 1986 on World Party’s debut album, Private Revolution. The ...

David Li is the Executive Director of Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab (SZOIL) which facilitates the collaboration between global smart hardware entrepreneurs and the Shenzhen Open Innovation ecosystem.

Global food security should not only be an economic or political goal, but a moral imperative, argues former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Gerontocracy (rule by elders) is a soaring and risk-bearing trend in rich countries. A new intergenerational justice index rates Italy worst in Europe.

All 197 UN member countries have agreed to use the Montreal Protocol for controlling climate-change-inducing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

The Slow Food movement originated in Italy in 1989 as a response to the growth of fast food and other changes in the food system worldwide, of which Our World readers are well aware. After 25 years ...

On World Food Day we share the perspective of an anti-hunger and social rights activist who feels food should be a commons not a commodity.

With interests in community-based resource use, the informal recycling sector and solid waste policy and planning, Martin Medina has collaborated with academic, nongovernmental and international ...

Dr Rebecca Brubaker is Senior Policy Adviser at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research in New York, focusing on Security Council affairs, multi-lateralism, sanctions, mediation, ...