Why science is at the heart of the Covid-19 crisis — By Josh Tewksbury, Interim Executive Director, Future Earth Take a moment to reflect on the image above. This now unmistakable shape represents one of the first attempts to image a single particle of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the devastating global disease known as COVID-19. At this minuscule scale, even…

How the global response to Covid-19 can help steer us toward sustainability — By Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Director of The World In 2050 and Emeritus Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) While the future of humanity has always been unpredictable, major challenges⁠ — like the current pandemic — have been an inevitable part of our shared history. What is…