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Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and

Today, governments in the global south are chided for not doing enough to tackle poverty, while being squeezed by unilateral sanctions, restrictive trade agreements, unequal exchange and debt burdens rooted in centuries of colonial dispossession. About 3.4 billion people live in countries that spend more on debt servicing than on healthcare or education. Meanwhile, global supply chains enable a vast net transfer of labour and resources from south to north. International solidarity is therefore a legal and moral obligation rooted in the historical reality that many rich countries built their wealth by impoverishing the south, through patterns of extraction that continue today in new forms. A just transition beyond growth must include debt justice, increased south-south cooperation, reparative climate finance and support for universal social protection floors, rooted in the principles of non-domination and self-determination so that countries can chart their own sovereign economic futures. Equally crucial is who gets to shape this transition. All too often, policies affecting people in poverty are designed without them – and sometimes against them. When welfare systems are built around suspicion, sanctions and humiliating conditions, they deepen stigma and deter people from claiming their entitlements. Those who live in poverty know better than anyone how systems can fail in practice. Their expertise must guide the design, implementation and monitoring of anti‑poverty strategies, from local councils to parliaments and international forums.

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Poverty is manufactured. That is the bad news – and the good news. What has been manufactured can be dismantled and replaced.

10 June 2026

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As governments collectively fail to meet UN climate targets, Stephen Cousins asks whether it’s time to reject the capitalist conceit of ‘pro

As key drivers of demand for buildings that consume natural resources and energy, architects are part of the economic growth problem, but they can also help shape the development of a post-growth world. Instead of driving the creation of ever larger city infrastructures, more materialistic lifestyles and humanity’s expanding carbon footprint on the planet, they can design in ways that are more sustainable and energy efficient and create spaces that build a different idea of prosperity.

Post-growth architecture isn’t primed to drive economic growth or encourage people to spend money, instead it encourages engagement in more participatory, creative and meaningful activities such as sports, recreation, study and learning.

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Researchers must try to resolve a dispute on the best way to use and care for Earth’s resources.

Fifty years ago, the System Dynamics group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had a stark message for the world: continued economic and population growth would deplete Earth’s resources and lead to global economic collapse by 2070. This finding was from their 200-page book The Limits to Growth, one of the first modelling studies to forecast the environmental and social impacts of industrialization. ... For its time, this was a shocking forecast, and it did not go down well. Nature called the study “another whiff of doomsday”. ... Although there’s now a consensus that human activities have irreversible environmental effects, researchers disagree on the solutions — especially if that involves curbing economic growth. That disagreement is impeding action. It’s time for researchers to end their debate. ... Governments have entire departments devoted to ensuring that GDP always points upwards. And that is a problem, say post-growth researchers: when faced with a choice between two policies (one more green than the other), governments are likely to opt for whichever is the quicker in boosting growth to bolster GDP, and that might often be the option that causes more pollution. ... Research can be territorial. But green-growth and post-growth scientists need to see the bigger picture. Right now, both are articulating different visions to policymakers, and there is a risk this will delay action.

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