A decade to rebalance the world?

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“Ethical Markets welcomes this report on “The Future of Food“, which covers many of these same trends we cover in our annual Green Transition Scoreboard® reports.   We hope they will join us in advocating expanding the current global food system perilously teetering on the planet’s 3% of freshwater.  In our “Capturing CO2 While Improving Human Nutrition & Health” (2018), we cover the opportunities to scale up saltwater agriculture, using all the nutritious halophyte plants (e.g. quinoa) beyond its use in 22 countries.  We illustrate how these halophytes are grown on unused and degraded lands without fertilizers or pesticides and their long roots capture ambient CO2 with high efficiency.

We hope Forum for the Future can help you publicize these investment opportunities, seen in our TV program “Investing in Saltwater Agriculture”  with NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell (all at www.ethicalmarkets.com ).  We appreciate the reference to azolla farming!

~Hazel Henderson,  Editor“

 

The world’s off balance.
Will the 2020s redress it?

What questions can help focus action in the next decade? 

Disappointment following the UN climate talks in Madrid reflects a world off-balance: not only are we heading for a 3-4 degree Celsius rise by the end of the century, but the burden of action is falling on low-income countries.

Our top signal from the last month shows some appetite to redress the balance. In October, a record-breaking US$9.8 billion was pledged by 27 countries to replenish the UN’s Green Climate Fund (GCF), which supports low-income countries to reduce their emissions and adapt to climate impacts. The crucial question remains: will these pledges be matched by action at home?

With this newsletter, we’re sharing our top signals from 2019. They reflect some urgent questions that concerned us in the past year:

As we enter a new year and decade, what questions do you think we need to address? And which signals of change bring you hope? Share your thoughts with the hashtag #signalofchange on Twitter and Instagram, or tag @forumforthefuture on Facebook.

Anna Simpson, Curator
Futures Centre

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