Resources

Despite commitments substantial barriers to raising the necessary finance for climate and nature remain. Global Public Investment (GPI) offers one promising new approach for collectively raising but also governing the distribution of finance for shared challenges and outcomes such as life-saving climate and nature protection—and for meeting emergent challenges across the range of vital Planetary Boundaries.

This policy brief details the growing momentum for greater representation of future generations in decision-making and how a UN Envoy for Future Generations and representatives at national, regional, and local levels could be established.

This policy brief details the importance of reinforcing existing international tribunals, including the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. It also outlines the rationale for establishing additional courts such as an International Environment Court and an International Anti-Corruption Court to ensure legal coherence and accountability.

This policy brief details the proposal for establishing a Global Environment Agency (GEA) or another such body to coordinate and strengthen global environmental governance in response to escalating Earth system risks and management challenges.

There is an urgent need to improve the coordination of science and policy at the international level: in particular, to integrate Earth system and Planetary Boundaries science into global policy and decision-making. Key governance innovations can bridge this science-policy gap.

This policy brief details the proposal to convene a Planetary “Emergency Platform” or a similar international crisis response mechanism, designed for high-level coordination of the international response to the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.

This policy brief encourages the UN General Assembly to issue a declaration on the human-induced “triple planetary crisis.” A resolution would focus attention on urgent climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss action, and galvanise momentum for the needed global response.

This report focuses on how institutions and the practice of governance, operating at global and regional levels, can contribute to more just societies by protecting human rights, fostering inclusion, and leveraging innovation to bridge long-standing divisions.

A report on creative and ambitious initiatives for building environmental governance including in implementation of the Pact for the Future and for consideration in key environmental forums such as COP30 in Belém (Brazil)

A report on making environmental agreements more effective by adding, or strengthening, accountability mechanisms.

Outlines the need and options for transformative change in views, governance structures and practices to halt biodiversity collapse.