The Environment

Unpredictable weather is threatening crop production and a swelling population is increasing the demand for food.

The statement was released on February 18, 2020 by a group of former foreign ministers from around the world who met recently to discuss one of the most urgent challenges of our time: the deepening global environmental crisis.

Combatting climate change and mass biodiversity loss requires a global movement.

On Friday, November 22, 2019 during an Aspen Ministers Forum convened in Vienna, Austria by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, the Aspen High Seas Initiative (AHSI) presented a special session on the accelerating global biodiversity crisis and urgent need to strengthen targets for conservation of marine biodiversity in particular.

New York Times investigative reporter Ian Urbina spent five perilous years jumping aboard fishing vessels and talking with the victims of the inhumanities in ungoverned waters.

Farmers, ranchers, suppliers, packagers, retailers, and experts in environmental and economic sustainability gather to answer the question, “How can the power of agriculture draw down climate change while creating value across the supply chain?"

On Friday June 28, 2019, during the Aspen Ideas Festival, AHSI Executive Director Michael Conathan hosted a Facebook Live conversation with Janis Searles Jones, CEO of the Ocean Conservancy and Daniela Fernandez, CEO of the Sustainable Ocean Alliance.

The UN recognizes that our window of opportunity to save ocean ecosystems is closing.

Mary Robinson talks about climate change and its humanitarian impacts.