NEWS & INSIGHTS

The Cost of Disconnection The story of modern economics is a story of disconnection. We've separated value from values, profit from purpose, and finance from the ecosystems that quietly sustain every market. We’ve treated the Earth like an infinite warehouse of resources, while designing financial models that reward short-term extraction over long-term regeneration.   That separation has now come full circle. The escalating climate crisis is not merely an environmental failur

By Higher Status Global   The Trillion-Dollar Elephant in the Room     Confronting climate change is widely seen as the defining global challenge of our time. Politicians declare it, CEOs pledge it, activists shout it and investors package it as strategy at summits.  And yet, here’s the number that should stop us cold: we face a $6 trillion* annual shortfall in climate finance - the gap between what is invested today and what's needed to meet the Paris Agreement’s net-zer

By Higher Status Global   A Question at the Heart of Our Future  In an age of economic uncertainty and a world drowning in apocalyptic headlines, media chatter and greenwashed sustainability claims, one question rises above the noise: can we design an economy where profit and planetary survival aren’t competing goals but one and the same?  As financial systems strain and buckle under climate risk and shifting markets, it’s not hyperbole to say that the fate of civilization r