What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy?
Food production accounts for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and takes up half of the planet’s habitable surface. A taste for meat has had a…
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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…
Scientists honing new ways to measure a city’s carbon footprint
Boston may be emerging as a model for how scientists and the public can better quantify and understand their city’s carbon dioxide emissions. Millions of…
Biden’s election is good news for the climate. But what comes next?
Few images captured the mood of climate activists last week more vividly than a video posted to Twitter of Christiana Figueres, one of the architects…
Energy-efficient building renovation: a Franco-German challenge
To achieve climate neutrality by 2050, the question of renovating buildings to be more energy-efficient is of crucial importance. More than ever before, it is…
Partying with CO2
Do you fall for fall celebrations? Do they evoke fond memories? Do you look forward to goblins and other Halloween trick-or-treaters and even gobbling up…
These African World Heritage Sites are under threat from climate change
Very few academics or policy makers are talking about the impact of climate change on heritage. Yet heritage is essential for social wellbeing, for identity…