Barbara Unmüßig
Barbara Unmüßig is President of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
As the global north's industrial agriculture model expands into the global south, it is destroying ecosystems, reducing biodiversity, and expropriating the land that one-third of the world’s people st… read more
Instead of rethinking our economies, in order to reconcile their functioning with environmental imperatives, the prevailing conception of the green economy seeks to quantify nature so that it can be r… read more
Governments around the world are increasingly taking steps to suppress civil-society organizations, citing the need to ensure political stability, prevent terrorism, or defend national sovereignty fro… read more
Intact soils are an invaluable and irreplaceable resource, one that performs myriad functions in achieving the international community’s main development and environmental goals. And now they are in u… read more
The UN's Sustainable Development Goals, to be established in 2015, will seek to protect ecosystems, conserve resources, and lift millions of people out of poverty. Unfortunately, the SDG negotiations … read more
Governments and international institutions are increasingly adopting a new approach to ecological preservation, based on the view that nature is a service provider. In doing so, they have shifted the onus o… read more
