Jan-Gustsav Strandenaes (31 December 2025) “Trusting in hope or managing disaster: UNEA 7, Human Rights and the Nobel Prizes” Stakeholder Forum, The Links, Herne Bay, Kent CT6 7GQ UK
This article is about three significant events that occurred on the same day in 2025 across three different parts of the world. The events all contain messages of despair and resignation, as well as of hope and optimism. As such, these events can represent, in a way, the work carried out in 2025, as well as the hope we have for 2026 and beyond. With this, I would like to wish, from all of us at the Stakeholder Forum, a better new year than the one we sent to the archives of history, and invite you to work together towards the world we all want to live in and leave to future generations. Irena Zubcevic, Director, Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future.