G20 Interfaith Forum Environment Working Group Policy Brief 20 January 2026
The G20 Interfaith Forum published a policy brief prepared for the 2025 G20 meeting in Johannesburg in 2025 on the debt-climate nexus. The policy brief was prepared by the IF20 Environment Working Group, which is chaired by IEF President Arthur Dahl and includes IEF member Monica Maghami.
Based on a paper in Nature Communications and a report in The Guardian 19 January 2026
Scientists report that global floating seaweed blooms are expanding in the oceans, with possible serious consequences. In the past two decades, both microscopic algae, such as phytoplankton, and seaweeds or macroalgae, have increased in certain coastal and open ocean waters.
As environmental destruction continues and the climate change and biodiversity crises accelerate, the concept of tipping points is being widely discussed. A tipping point is where a change in a system has gone so far that the system is destabilised, and positive feedbacks accelerate the decline towards total collapse, so that return to a desirable state becomes impossible in the reasonable future.
