More: Climate Crisis
Phasing Out Coal and Other Transitions: Lessons From Europe
Climate change reports are seldom sanguine. Carbon dioxide, the principal culprit, is at record levels, about twice the preindustrial value and a third higher...
Thwarting Trump on Climate Change Denial
We now have the remarkable convenience of the internal combustion engine, and also its noise and chaos and emissions to energize climate change. Burning...
Hot Warheads, a Cold Freeze and Hot Oceans
It doesn't take much to imagine the following scenario: 'Cross my heart, I swear it's a low-yield,' as a Trident is launched! One wonders...
Risks to Global Businesses from New Era of Epidemics Rival Climate Change
The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with the Harvard Global Health Institute, today released a white paper that details why and how the business...
Towards zero deforestation
The human population is still growing and needs space and resources. It is, therefore, not easy to reconcile development, biodiversity conservation and climate change...
No Climate Change without a generational interval
The newly elected President of Costa Rica, one of the world’s youngest heads of state,38-year-old former journalist Carlos Alvarado, has vowed to fully decarbonise...
COP24, Developing Countries and a Bit of Good News for Solar Energy and Carbon Capture
Humans are an interesting species ... instead of seeing eye-to-eye, they see eye-to-nose. They focus on the present and themselves, particularly where their comfort...
At COP24, countries agree concrete way forward to bring the Paris climate deal to life
After two weeks of crunch negotiations – with overtime – the almost 200 parties gathered in Katowice, Poland, for the United Nations COP24 two-week climate...
EU plays instrumental role in making the Paris Agreement operational
The UN climate conference (COP24) in Katowice, Poland, concluded today with the adoption of a clear rulebook to make the Paris Agreement on climate...
A Just and Fair Energy Transition: An opportunity to tackle climate change and create prosperity
Holding the UN climate conference COP24 in Katowice
sends a strong signal as it provides the international community with an
opportunity to learn from an on-going...