Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

06 January 2023
Southwood, R. (2022) Africa 2.0: Inside a Continent’s Communications Revolution. Manchester University Press. ISBN: 978-1-5261-5482-8 Been catching up with my reading backlog over…
29 December 2022
Representatives met two weeks ago for the 2022 Effective Development Cooperation Summit. The event reveals the limitations of multistakeholderism and the need for a more…
28 December 2022
At COP15, 196 countries reached an agreement for new global goals and targets, which - if met - can reverse or halt biodiversity loss by 2030. Implementation starts now. In the…
19 December 2022
Emma Workman discusses the tension between environmental goals and economic goals, alongside the need for conservation economies in the context of the Convention of Biological…
19 December 2022
This blog was written prior to the closing of COP15. It documents the state of the negotiations in the afternoon of 18 December, 2022 prior to the closing plenary. At the COP15…
19 December 2022
As the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) passed its halfway mark, hope and perseverance prevailed. On Thursday 15 December,…
19 December 2022
To protect critical habitats from upstream effects, area-based conservation should proceed at the watershed level, argues Lo Stevenson. As negotiations draw to a close at the…
16 December 2022
Richard Dalton maps Iran's stakeholders and sketches out possible scenarios for the country's future. This is the third in a four-part series following an event exploring these…
15 December 2022
Marzieh Kouhi Esfahani argues that Iran's way out of the current protests are hampered by the absence of competent elite. This is the third in a four-part series following an…
14 December 2022
Tom Walsh argues that Iran’s Gen Z-led movement constitutes a relentless, diversified, and fearless campaign against the Islamic Republic. Whilst real change may not come any time…