Are life-cycle assessments worth the (recycled) paper they’re printed on?
Developed to provide a blueprint for environmental action, LCAs often sow seeds of discord. What can be done to fix that? Single-use items — which…
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What Joe Biden’s US election victory means for climate change
Joe Biden’s US election victory has been hailed as a significant turning point in US policy on everything from racial injustice to the Covid-19 pandemic. But there are few…
Warmer climate and Arctic sea ice in a veritable suicide pact
Their ‘death spiral’ is a vicious melting-warming feedback, leading to more melting of snow and ice and still more warming, an ongoing cycle. Think of…
Climate literacy is essential for effective change
We need to make it easier to understand basic climate science and emissions reductions. We know less than we think we know about climate. And we…
China’s new carbon neutrality pledge: what next?
Experts react to President Xi’s statement that China will up its climate ambition by striving for carbon neutrality by 2060. In a virtual address to…
From Dust Bowl to Climigration
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Dust Bowl Ballads by Woody Guthrie. Hurricanes and floods in the Southeast. “When the Levee Breaks” written by…
Is 2020 the Opening for a Just Transition?
As the U.S. considers how to reopen, stimulate, and recover its economy post-pandemic, how radically could it be reimagined? As an archipelago, Hawai‘i was necessarily self-reliant…
Without sustainable cities, global development goals will fail
Cities have been the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic, with little discrimination between more and less developed urban environments. More than 95 per cent of…