by Omega | Feb 8, 2023 | Community
I’m deeply encouraged by such an ambitious effort to generate better decisions and transformative impact around systemic risks. I stand wholly committed to rising to the challenge and doing what I can to meet the world’s need for urgent social and ecological...
by Susan Grelock Yusem | Jan 27, 2023 | Omega Resilience Awards
The Omega Resilience Awards’ partner organization in India, StartUp!, is actively screening and interviewing candidates to become the first ORA India Fellows. The Omega Resilience Awards (ORA) provides fellowships, research grants, and media creation to support...
by Omega | Jan 26, 2023 | Environment
Today, I am joined by systems ecologist William E. Rees, who’s had a large and longtime influence in the field of ecological economics. Here he outlines why most of the challenges facing humanity and the biosphere have a common origin – ecological overshoot...
by Omega | Jan 26, 2023 | Polycrisis
A problem becomes a crisis when it challenges our ability to cope and thus threatens our identity. In the polycrisis the shocks are disparate, but they interact so that the whole is even more overwhelming than the sum of the parts. At times one feels as if...
by Omega | Jan 26, 2023 | Economy
So many global troubles have arisen that the political and business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland have adopted a buzzword to capture the moment. Andrew Ross Sorkin, et al. Link to full article in The New York Times by Andrew Ross Sorkin, et...
by Omega | Jan 26, 2023 | Environment
I recently returned to Lebanon, where I have been doing ethnographic research for more than a decade, after an absence of several years. In the intervening years, the pandemic emerged, the country’s economy collapsed, and Lebanese united in the streets to call for...
by Omega | Jan 26, 2023 | Economy
The World Bank is set to wield huge influence over how the energy transition is financed, potentially dwarfing the promised efforts of Wall Street giants like JPMorgan Chase & Co. or BlackRock Inc. to help eliminate emissions. Alastair Marsh Link to full...
by Omega | Jan 26, 2023 | Economy
The cost of living is the biggest short-term risk facing the global economy, with energy and food inflation likely to persist for the next two years, warns the World Economic Forum ahead of its annual Davos meeting. David Thomas Link to full article in African...
by Omega | Jan 26, 2023 | Economy
Hurricane Ian in the United States and floods and Australia helped to make 2022 one of the insurance industry’s costliest years on record for natural disasters, Munich Re said on Tuesday, warning that climate change was making storms more intense...
by Omega | Jan 26, 2023 | Polycrisis
Whatever one’s favored terminology for describing the current moment, there is widespread agreement that we are facing unprecedented, unusual, and unexpected levels of uncertainty, auguring a future of crisis, instability, and conflict. But whether we will actually do...
