As climate variability increases over the next decades, we have to dramatically rethink how we govern extractive industry, water resources, and environmental...
In May 2011, two weeks before I was scheduled to start research in the region, a Mongol herder named Mergen was hit by a mining truck while protecting his...
The global community places great hopes in the UN climate conference in Paris in December. Oliver Geden of the German Institute for International and Security...
Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, has become the latest person to deliver a blunt warning about the risks of climate change to global financial...
China’s economic slowdown is proving especially painful for countries that depend on Chinese investment. The Chinese are set to invest less in foreign countries...
The spiritual grandchild of the Rio Earth Summit agreement of 23 years ago, the universal climate agreement (UCA), is the world's best chance to limit global...
The United Nations will finalize in September its Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to eliminate poverty while reducing humanity's environmental...
Investors are, by necessity, experts at taking calculated risks. They scan the horizon of our ever-evolving world for new and sometimes unexpected economic...
World Water Week this year will focus on taking stock of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as they conclude and the role of water in the MDG’s successors...
Given the pressing need to strongly defend the right to land as a human right, a "Monitoring Tool based on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible...
In advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this December, many publics around the world name global climate change as a top threat...
Violent conflicts and security crises around the world have many different causes and effects. The vast majority of them, however, are in one way or another...
Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter “Laudato Si”, published on 18 June 2015, is a moral plea for action against climate change and environmental degradation...
WATCH: In part four of the interview series, Peter Eigen discusses how the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative can provide added value for civil...