Economy & Finance

Analyses of the crisis are likely to show that the response redistributed wealth upward. The social, economical and ecological challenges are enormous and demand a broader analysis and a different kind of public debate that reaches beyond the classical economic thinking.

For too long the international climate and trade policies have pursued conflicting objectives. It is high time to confront both policies, so Tilman Santarius, in his study, published by the German NGO Forum on Environment and Development in Bonn and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

The global concept of a Green New Deal is a direct reaction to the current economic and unemployment crisis. If the Green New Deal is introduced the right way, it could lead to transformation and create the proper conditions for a sustainable green economy of the 21st century.

The debate on a transatlantic Green New Deal takes place just in time. The economic tsunami which, today, is devastating the world economy marks the end of an old model for economic growth and the beginning of a new era, a historical turn to sustainable growth: Green is the new red, white, and blue.

The current global agrifood system is slowly going from a "bottleneck situation" to one of "hourglass", wherein a few dominant agrifood retailers control both the supply side / numerous producers and demand side / numerous consumers.