Change demands passion, collaboration demands humanity, and a united society demands love and creativity. Art and culture can provide all of these so very important credentials for a healthy and thus sustainable (global) society. “There is no Christian, no Muslim, no Jewish blood. There is only human blood.I say, be…
news articles
Archive of all our news articles published on IDGR.org in historical order.
global economy, externalities, and global binding markets
Global health is the path and will deliver global peace
We have a dream – a world with all the people, yes, all the people living withing a global healthy and thus sustainable society peacefully together. To make this dream a reality, there are three core concepts important in our view – (1) the skill of all the people for…
global economy, externalities, and global binding markets
The root cause for trade deficits
The major damage from the current “United States of America ” (USA) administration is its distraction from our currently by far greatest (security) threat to humanity – global warming, climate change, and the loss of biodiversity. Based on that and since there is significant noise & irritation, I want to…
research news
Temperature rise will be exponential – IDGR starts working on trans- and interdisciplinary global warming scenario
Global warming, climate change, and the loss of biodiversity is in our view the by far greatest (security) threat to humanity ever in human history (nuclear weapons certainly have the potential to extinct humanity within seconds, but they are men made and can be fully controlled by men, e.g. cf….
global governance, geo-politics, and democracy
Trump administration acknowledges global warming
With the official trip from Mr. Vance et al. to Greenland, the Trump administration most importantly acknowledges global warming. The press conference from Mr. Vance “visiting” Greenland, March 28, 2025 (e.g. Forbes Breaking News) reveals, the Trump administration acts like the Putin administration with the “peaceful” annexation of Krim 2014….
A first official global direct democratic vote on ‘climate action’ with 5.5 billion people now!
1.5°C expected in 4.5 years – we need a first global referendum on climate actions now
Latest data from the “Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)” (copernicus.eu) and its “C3S Global temperature trend monitor” shows global warming reached 1.38°C in February 2025. Reaching 1.5°C of global warming above pre-industrial levels – the limit agreed under the “Paris Agreement” – is expected by September 2029, within ca. 4.5…
global economy, externalities, and global binding markets
U.S. tariffs politics shows very strong demand for global tax-system
We are in great favour of a globalised market without any tariffs and boarders. Global trade is probably one of the greatest developments of humanity. Not only the plurality of products & services, the possibility of global travel, and the gains in supply resilience (e.g. during the COVID-19 pandemics, the…
global governance, geo-politics, and democracy
Make planet Earth great (again)
To start with, our mother planet Earth is great. Everyone can experience that. It just takes a walk out into nature keeping your aesthetics open – seeing the beauty with your eyes, enjoying the sun or rainfall with your skin, “listening to the silence” from nature, tasting the fruits, smelling…
global warming, climate disruption, and biodiversity loss
Current geopolitics fails to deliver on the by far most important & urgent KPI for humanity
Global warming, climate change, and the loss of biodiversity is currently by far the most important and most urgent “security threat” to humanity. Global “greenhouse gas” (GHG) emissions is currently by far the most important “key performance indicator” (KPI) for geopolitics in our view. (see the following graph from “Our…
global governance, geo-politics, and democracy
2024 Nobel Prize supports (global) democracy
The 2024 “Nobel Prize” within Economic Sciences goes to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson: “These contributions are also of practical importance because the large and persistent income gap between the world’s richest and poorest countries has enormous consequences for billions of people living in the world today….