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The new joint policy brief offers a deep dive into the ways in which the social and solidarity economy can advance the objectives of the Roadmap by supporting the eradication of poverty beyond growth.

Climate change could lead to half a million more deaths from malaria in Africa over the next 25 years, according to new research.

À l’occasion de la COP30, la conférence annuelle des Nations unies sur le changement climatique, qui a lieu au Brésil en novembre 2025, la rédaction de Brief.science vous propose un e-book exceptionnel pour comprendre le changement climatique en 20 infographies.

Les deux chefs d’Etat se sont rencontrés sur le tarmac d’une base militaire à Anchorage, en Alaska, ce vendredi 15 août. L’ambiance était cordiale mais ils n’avaient rien de concret à annoncer après trois heures de discussion.

The Global Justice Project is a collective research initiative developed by the World Inequality Lab. Combining comparative historical data series from the World Inequality Database with global input-output tables, environmental accounts, labour force surveys and other sources, the project explores what a just distribution of socio-economic and environmental resources could look like at the global level from 2025 to 2100 – both between and within countries – in a way that is compatible with planetary boundaries. The project partly builds on the analysis and proposals set out in Thomas Piketty’s Brief History of Equality, extending them into a broader and more comprehensive global framework. The Global Justice Project is now available to explore on a dedicated website, that includes an interactive tool to explore the distributional pathways and climate scenarios behind the report.

Tipping elements within the Earth system are increasingly well understood. Scientists have identified more than 25 parts of the Earth’s climate system that are likely to have “tipping points” – thresholds where a small additional change in global warming will cause them to irreversibly shift into a new state. The “tipping” of these systems – which include the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the Amazon rainforest and the Greenland ice sheet – would have profound consequences for both the biosphere and people. More recent research suggests that triggering one tipping element could cause subsequent changes in other tipping elements, potentially leading to a “tipping cascade”. For example, a collapsed AMOC could lead to dieback of the Amazon rainforest and hasten the melt of the Greenland ice sheet.

Clean-energy sectors drove a quarter of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2024 and have overtaken real-estate sales in value. The new sector-by-sector analysis for Carbon Brief, based on official figures, industry data and analyst reports, shows the growing role of clean technology in China’s economy – particularly the so-called “new three” industries, namely, solar, electric vehicles (EVs) and batteries.

Meer dan 250 wetenschappers, bekende Belgen en burgerbewegingen roepen in een open brief van 11.11.11, Bond Beter Leefmilieu en Canopea de Vlaamse en Federale onderhandelaars op om ambitieus klimaat- en natuurbeleid centraal op te nemen in de regeringsnota. Want de klimaatopwarming is in een stroomversnelling geraakt, met alle rampzalige gevolgen vandien.

Alors que les formateurs se reposaient pendant leur semaine de pause, la crise climatique rendait la vie telle que nous la connaissions de plus en plus impossible. 250 scientifiques, personnalités belges et mouvements citoyens appellent à une lettre ouverte de 11.11.11Bond Beter Leefmilieu et Canopea appellent les négociateurs flamands et fédéraux à inclure une politique ambitieuse en matière de climat et de nature au cœur du mémorandum du gouvernement. Parce que le réchauffement climatique s’est accéléré, avec toutes ses conséquences désastreuses.

Over the past year, there has been a vigorous debate among scientists – and more broadly – about whether global warming is “accelerating”.