We are not ready: Policymaking in the age of environmental breakdown – Final report

Environmental breakdown is the defining challenge of our time. This is the final report of a major research programme investigating the implications of the global environmental crisis for politics...

24/06/2020

Publication Report Environment Anthropocene IPPR

Facing the crisis: Rethinking economics for the age of environmental breakdown

Damaging human impacts on the environment go beyond climate breakdown to encompass most other natural systems, from soil to biodiversity. The current economic model in countries around the world...

01/08/2019

Publication Briefing Environment IPPR Anthropocene

Inheriting the Earth? The unprecedented challenge of environmental breakdown for younger generations

Younger generations, in addition to being economically worse off than their parents, face a future of unprecedented environmental breakdown. They will disproportionately bear the burden of having...

17/09/2019

Publication Briefing Environment Anthropocene Young people IPPR

Our responsibility: A new model of international cooperation for the era of environmental breakdown

Environmental breakdown is accelerating and poses an unprecedented threat to international cooperation. A new positive-sum model of international cooperation is needed, which should seek to realise a...

22/11/2019

Publication Briefing Environment IPPR

This is a crisis: Facing up to the age of environmental breakdown

Mainstream political and policy debates have failed to recognise that human impacts on the environment have reached a critical stage, potentially eroding the conditions upon which socioeconomic...

12/02/2019

Publication Report Environment Anthropocene

Watch: This is a crisis

This is a crisis: Facing up to the age of environmental breakdown We are entering an age of unprecedented environmental breakdown and a transformational response is required. IPPR is undertaking a...

18/02/2019

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