Whether climate change, species extinction, mountains of rubbish or feeding the growing world population - many environmental crises are interlinked and require rapid action. The good news: There are powerful levers to solve the task.
At least one minute's silence would be appropriate when representatives from almost 200 countries meet in the Egyptian tourist stronghold Sharm el-Sheikh for the 27th UN climate conference starting November 6th - and also when they meet almost four weeks later, on December 7th, the 15th World Conference on Nature will open in Montréal, Canada. A quiet minute as these envoys of humanity contemplate a photograph: the earth
