The problems are connected. So are the solutions

I first learned about sustainability because I am interested in poverty. I grew up in one of the world’s poorest countries and I wanted to understand it better. What keeps people in poverty? What are the proven ways to spring the trap? It was in exploring these questions at university that I began to see the importance of the environment.

Poverty and the environment are inextricably intertwined. The climate and biodiversity crises have economic dimensions, and implications for inequality and...