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The significance of the climate crisis and its effects on the planet and us humans are still underestimated, despite science and extreme weather. Above all, decisive action is lacking in politics.

The right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment has been enshrined as a fundamental right in a resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council. Enterprises too fall within its scope.

The final declaration of the UN Climate Conference is by no means the end of the story – with the climate crisis intensifying and Switzerland's climate budget about to run out. From Glasgow Stefan Salzmann (Co-Chair of Climate Alliance Switzerland)

Despite the postponement of the WTO Ministerial Conference, Switzerland is finding itself increasingly isolated in its opposition to the waiver of patent protection on Covid vaccines. The WTO General Council could and should decide quickly.

The WTO Ministerial Conference, to be held in Geneva from 30 November to 3 December, will discuss the temporary waiver of intellectual property protection on vaccines, tests and anti-covid drugs. We urge the Swiss government to stop its systematic blocking at the WTO, which has been going on for over a year. For their part, we also urge pharmaceutical companies to share their know-how without restriction.

The agribusiness group Socfin shifts profits from commodity production to the low-tax canton of Fribourg. This tax avoidance goes hand in hand with profit maximisation at the expense of the population in the affected regions in Africa and Asia.

It is a topsy-turvy world. The emerging challenges call for a radical worldwide rethink. Development organisations too are being challenged: not just in terms of their programme but also in their corporate communication. By Jörg Arnold, Fairpicture

Jean Ziegler, author of the book titled «Was ist so schlimm am Kapitalismus – Antworten auf die Fragen meiner Enkelin», urges NGOs and social movements to create a new social world order based on rights, solidarity, reciprocity and complementarity.

Alliance Sud has been working for a Switzerland of solidarity for 50 years. Our President Bernd Nilles looks back - and into the future.