Dear Colleagues,

As you no doubt already noticed, everything seems in flux these days. That clearly also pertains to the shifting dominant discourse.   Earlier this week, Klaus Schwab (WEF), of all people, declared “Neoliberalism dead”. Now we’re just waiting for Davos to suffer a similar fate 😊 (that this year’s WEF location has been moved to another Swiss city, doesn’t really count).

The terms we use to describe the climate crisis are also changing rapidly, in line with its frightening acceleration. In ten years, we’ve gone from ‘global warming’ and ‘climate change’ to a ‘climate emergency’, a ‘climate breakdown’, and ‘locked-in climate disruption’. Some are already  warning we better hurry up if we still want to avoid a full-blown ‘climate lockdown’.  

And lately, ‘a World Woefully Underprepared’ seems to have taken over as “the” high-level event/report “buzzword” par excellence from ‘ a Decade of Delivery’, whether it’s on pandemic preparedness, the climate...