Andrew Simms is policy director and head of the climate-change forum at the New Economics Foundation (nef). He is the author of Ecological debt: the health of the planet and the wealth of nations (Pluto, 2005).

Recent articles

The Stern review on the economics of climate change is a "flawed masterpiece" that avoids the crucial questions about saving the planet, says Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation.

A new book by the pioneering green campaigner Jonathon Porritt, “Capitalism As If the World Matters”, calls on environmentalists to create a politics of sustainability that accepts the reality of capitalism. Environmental thinkers and activists from a variety of perspectives respond.

Living within one’s resources is the first lesson of mainstream economics. What if we applied the same lesson to the global household?

For this proponent of a radical reform of the world’s economic and political relationships, the defence of globalisation by its privileged partisans is deeply unconvincing. The fruits of the process - unfree trade, unequal rules, unsustainable poverty and destructive climate change - make a fresh model, of local empowerment and planned internationalism, long overdue.