Action Call: Building the Health Movement for a Green New Deal
On the 9th July 2020 we held an Action Call to build the Health Movement for a Green New Deal. We discussed the what, why and how of building the heal...
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False Positives: the Prevent counter-extremism policy in healthcare (report launch)
On the 2nd July 2020 we held the online launch of our latest report ‘False Positives: the Prevent counter-extremism policy in healthcare’. This report...
The arms industry in the era of COVID-19: lessons for the future
Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic reached the UK, it became clear that the NHS was not sufficiently equipped or staffed to respond to the crisis. In Ma...
David Powell At Healthy Planet, Better World - "Kenya's Progress On Inequality & Sustainability"
Environment programme lead David Powell discusses a partnership between the New Economic Foundation and the African Centre for a Green Economy looking...
John Lanchbery At HPBW - "The Paris Agreement: Game Changer Or More Hot Air?"
John Lanchbery is the Principal Advisor on climate change at the RSPB and a lead member of the BirdLife International team on climate change. At the c...
Kate Raworth At HPBW - "Why It's Time For A New Version Of Human Prosperity"
Humanity's central challenge in the 21st century is to realise the human rights of all within the means of this life-giving planet. In other words, we...
Kevin Anderson At HPBW - "How informed hope and action can Trump despair"
The IPCC’s latest report, and the commitments enshrined in the Paris Agreement have reshaped the climate change agenda. Whilst the former establishes ...
Kinari Webb At HPBW - "Radical Listening: Saving Lives And Rainforest In Borneo"
MD and Founder of Health in Harmony, Kinari Webb, shares her insights on her organisation’s work improving the lives of people in the communities arou...
Corinna Hawkes At Healthy Planet, Better World - "Global Food System Challenges"
Professor Corinna Hawkes provides a broad global perspective on the central challenges for food systems, as an opening to the Food stream of the confe...
Annie Quick At HPBW - "Equality And Sustainability: Where Does The UK Stand?"
Annie Quick, lead for Wellbeing and Inequality at the New Economics Foundation, outlines some of the issues around inequality and the environment in t...