News & Media Highlights
Studie in «Science»: Menschen kooperieren weit mehr, als ihre Mitmenschen ihnen zutrauen (in German)
69 Prozent der Menschen weltweit verzichten auf eigenen Gewinn zugunsten des Gemeinwohls. Doch fast überall unterschätzen sie die Hilfsbereitschaft der anderen – besonders drastisch in Deutschland.
Studie aus Bonn: Deutsche unterschätzen ihre Mitmenschen massiv (in German)
Haltet ihr euch für Teamplayer? Eine brandneue Untersuchung zeigt: Die meisten Menschen sind viel hilfsbereiter, als sie von anderen annehmen. Und nirgendwo ist diese Fehleinschätzung so extrem wie bei uns in Deutschland.
Es gibt weltweit große Mehrheiten für das Gute (in German)
Ole von Uexküll ist Direktor der Stiftung, die jedes Jahr Alternative Nobelpreise verleiht. Hier erklärt er, was eine bessere Welt wäre und wie man Macht aufbaut.
Die Deutschen haben keineswegs die Nase voll vom Klimaschutz (in German)
Niemand interessiert sich mehr für die größte aller Krisen? Falsch. Das zeigen Forschungsdaten ebenso wie ein Erlebnis in meinem Motorradunterricht.
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed.
‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not.
Breaking the gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarized world
The 2023/24 Human Development Report assesses the dangerous gridlock resulting from uneven development progress, intensifying inequality, and escalating political polarization, that we must urgently tackle. The report emphasizes how global interdependence is being reconfigured and proposes a path forward where multilateralism plays a pivotal role.
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Why does pursuing the ambitions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement feel like a half-hearted slog through quicksand?
Why in many places does restoring peace, even pauses or ceasefires as hopeful preludes to peace, feel so elusive?
Why are we immobilized on digital governance while artificial intelligence races ahead in a data goldrush?
In short, why are we so stuck? And how do we get unstuck without resorting myopically to violence or isolationism? These questions motivate the 2023/2024 Human Development Report.
The 89 Percent Project
The 89 Percent Project is a year-long global journalistic effort to explore a pivotal but little-known fact about climate change: The overwhelming majority of the world’s people — between 80 and 89%, according to recent science — want governments to take stronger action. But that fact is not reflected in our news coverage, which helps explain why the 89% don’t know that they are the global majority.
The 89 Percent Project launches on April 21 with a CCNow Joint Coverage Week focused on the people who comprise this silent climate majority: Who are they? How do their numbers vary across countries and gender and generational lines? What kinds of action do they want governments to take?
Climate Coach
Down-to-earth advice for life on our changing planet.