Real results will emerge when we realize the power of combined individual actions and voices to effect change.

We are at a pivotal moment in our shared history. The global goals of a healthy planet, social equality, and economic opportunity for all are within reach. But we cannot prevaricate.

Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to seven billion people.

With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.

Real results will emerge when we realize the power of combined individual actions and voices to effect change.

In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.