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There are three ways of looking at COVID-19 and three time frames for responding to the crisis it has created, argues Quinn Slobodian in a think-piece generated after a Transnational Institute webinar.
22.04.2020
Join the world’s largest environmental movement to drive transformative change for people and planet - this year, completely online.
22.04.2020
The ISC spoke to economist Eric Berglof about the economic feasibility of advancing climate initiatives during the global health crisis.
21.04.2020
Olivier Bouin, Marie-Laure Djelic, Marc Fleurbaey, Ravi Kanbur and Elisa Reis explore the issues around "The Pandemic in the Age of Anxiety".
21.04.2020
During the pandemic, the Committee on Space Research, COSPAR, will be inviting COSPAR Associates and the broader constituency to comment and provide their thoughts on how COSPAR can best fulfill its mission after the crisis is over, and how the space research community should use lessons learned from the crisis to help society meet future challenges such as climate change. President of COSPAR, Len A. Fisk, pens the first letter in this series.
20.04.2020
Markus J. Buehler is the McAfee Professor of Engineering at MIT, and a composer of experimental, classical and electronic music, with an interest in sonification. He has converted the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus protein to music.
17.04.2020
This is a wake-up call. The new global ecology we have created through our ravaging of Earth’s resources holds great risks for humanity.
17.04.2020
Pearl Dykstra is a Governing Board member of the ISC, an elected member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Science and serves as the Co-chair of the European Commission Chief Scientific Advisors. We spoke to her about the importance of the recently published expert advisory report, Scientific Advice in a Complex World.
17.04.2020
When 2020 was declared a “super year” for biodiversity conservation, no one suspected that a particular form of this biodiversity would proliferate to such an extent as to bring all of this fanfare to a screeching halt.
16.04.2020
A commentary on Ismail Serageldin’s essay: “Reflections on constructing a human-centred development paradigm” by Peter Gluckman, President-Elect of the ISC.
15.04.2020
