We urgently need new social-ecological policies to simultaneously tackle the climate emergency and create a fairer society. Milena Buchs writes these policies would need to support societies to stay within planetary boundaries, satisfy everyone’s basic needs, achieve a fairer distribution of resources and opportunities, and enhance democratic governance.

Inequity in health systems has become the most significant challenge in the effort to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. Diahhadi Setyonaluri, Rachmat Reksa Samudra, and Muhammad Faisal examine how the pandemic feeds off pre-existing disparities in Indonesia, limiting equitable access to quality health care services.

The policy potential for universal basic income has been bogged down by confusion around cost, universality and targeting, as well as familiar cognitive biases and tropes. In this piece, Liz Fouksman discusses how to reframe the debate and set it on a more fit path.