Even before taking office in January 2023, Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva promised to end illegal deforestation in the Amazon.

Recent months may well be remembered as the moment when predictive artificial intelligence went mainstream.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder of how interconnected our fates are

The Amazon Basin is fast approaching an irreversible tipping point

The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming virtually every aspect of our lives.

The global green transition will accelerate – and not a moment too soon.

As we show in our new book Terra Incognita, COVID-19 is exacerbating multiple forms of inequality within and between countries and cities, and raising fundamental questions about the future of urban living.

This week, PS talks with Robert Muggah, a co-founder of the SecDev Group and the Igarapé Institute.

Following the recent ouster of Brazil’s popular justice minister, Sergio Moro, the world’s fourth-largest democracy is on the brink of plunging into even deeper instability.

Our cities will not be the same after COVID-19.

Published in Project Syndicate By Robert Muggah This year’s annual IMF/World Bank spring meetings may be taking place virtually, but the challenges facing the world’s finance ministers and central-bank governors are frighteningly real. In particular, will multilateral efforts succeed in preventing the coronavirus from causing…

Far from merely reflecting an unequal distribution of economic means, rising inequality comes with a broad range of additional toxic side effects, many of which the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief. With the pandemic transforming life around the world before our eyes, this is a problem that can no longer be ignored.

Published in Project Syndicate By Robert Muggah The COVID-19 pandemic was not just predictable but inevitable, which makes the skyrocketing economic and human costs of the crisis all the more unacceptable. If the international community does not respond by creating new global structures to deal…

As the world’s largest terrestrial carbon sink, the Amazon is a key front in the fight against climate change