The project — We are not Waiting by The 50 Percent and UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition — is built around six themes that reflect what young people are already doing to change the world. If you are between 14 and 35 and your work touches any of them, we want to hear from you. Each theme is a question. Each question points to work already happening.
We are not waiting is a joint initiative by the UNESCO–MOST BRIDGES UK Hub and The 50 Percent at the Club of Rome, with two linked outputs: a youth-led webinar series and an accompanying anthology.
We are pleased to highlight a significant contribution to the global dialogue on sustainability and progress, by Prof. Luci Attala, Deputy Executive Director of UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES. This compelling thought piece titled “Building BRIDGES to a Biophilic Future: Reimagining Progress in Relationship with our Planet” featured in UNESCO’s Futures Literacy and Foresight Collection, challenges the traditional metrics of success and offers a transformative framework for navigating our current era of "poly-crises."
This publication explores the internal dynamics of Câr-y-Môr, Wales’s first community-owned regenerative ocean farm. The authors argue that sustainability governance in small-scale aquaculture is primarily driven by the relational, ethical, and temporal labour of the practitioners themselves. The research highlights a fundamental tension in modern environmental management: the "technocratic environmentalism" of audits and standardised reporting often fails to align with the lived reality of marine labour, the shifting rhythms of tides, unpredictable weather, and the physical demands of the sea.
Yesterday, as the sun broke through for the first time after a long, wet winter, the first buds of hope appeared in Swansea with the announcement that the city has officially joined the Biophilic Cities Network, marking a major milestone in its drive toward a greener, healthier urban future.
