Wolfgang Sachs argues for environmental human rights as a fundamental prerequisite to end the violence of development. He outlines the numerous conflicts over natural resources in the struggle for livelihoods and argues for a transition to sustainability in the more affluent economies, in both...

Wolfgang Sachs, in his capacity as co-ordinator and editor of a group of 15 people that produced ‘The Johannesburg Memo: Fairness in a Fragile World’, reflects on what has to be radically different in Johannesburg if it is to catch up with the ecological disasters we are facing 10 years on...

Wolfgang Sachs asks who are the winners, and who the losers in climate change? He makes the case that cuts in fossil fuel use are imperative not only to protect the atmosphere but also to protect human rights. Development (2008) 51, 332–337. doi:10.1057/dev.2008.35