Citizens for Global Solutions · July 2026
Independence freed former colonies but cannot, alone, handle war, nuclear weapons, climate breakdown or pandemics. A stronger United Nations, pursued through an Article 109 Charter review and driven by citizens’ organizations, is needed to deal with problems no single country can solve.
Citizens for Global Solutions · February 2024
World Federalist Movement · October 2023
World Federalist Movement · August 2023
World Federalist Movement · May 2023
Citizens for Global Solutions · March 2023
Citizens for Global Solutions · February 2023
The article examines the failure of international climate treaties. It highlights the need for global cooperation to prevent climate catastrophe.
World Federalist Movement · December 2022
A democratic world federation is both desirable and probably decades away, with one estimate running from 50 to 400 years. Only democracies should form its core, following the path Europeans took from a coal and steel community toward federation.
World Federalist Movement · April 2022
Chernobyl’s nuclear legacy resurfaces as Russia attacks Ukraine’s reactors. The UN’s coordinated response highlights global governance needs.
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2021
World Federalists press Canada’s new government to rebuild its UN peacekeeping role (68th in the world, with strong public support), address nuclear weapons and engage the Secretary-General’s Our Common Agenda.
September 2021
Paris Agreement pledges would trim emissions yet still allow about 2.7°C of warming, because each country writes its own promise and none is bound to keep it. Glasgow will test whether a treaty built on pledges can be enough.
World Federalist Movement · August 2021
World government will never happen, yet world federalism remains a useful framework. The movement should stop debating the end product and build coalitions around concrete goals such as pandemics, artificial intelligence and a nuclear-weapon-free Northeast Asia, as it did for the International Criminal Court.
World Federalist Movement · August 2021
Mega-dams and vast solar parks have flooded forests and displaced Indigenous communities from the Amazon to Mexico and the Philippines. A law against ecocide could deter such projects, but only if it is drafted so that harm cannot be greenwashed and clean power is not stalled.
March 2021
Smog or habitat loss can be fixed where it happens, but climate change, mercury and ocean plastic cannot. Only problems of the second kind call for binding treaties and, one day, world law; the rest need coordinated local action.
