The Paris Agreement: not great but still a good deal
“Perfect is the enemy of the good, so we don’t have a perfect agreement but a good agreement and this is an earth-shaking moment,” said…
Climate Change
Rifkin: ‘UN climate talks lack a new economic vision’
The good news is that European cities and regions are at the forefront of the internet revolution which can deliver this promise, he told EurActiv…
Winning ‘hearts and minds’ for the energy transition
For the past three years, the R&Dialogue project has been working on facilitating social acceptance for the transition to a low carbon society. Endorsed by…
Rise in CO2 could restrict growing days for crops
While plants in temperate zones may benefit from higher temperatures, global warming’s impact in the tropics threatens catastrophe for food security. LONDON, 20 June,…
Cutting our carbon emissions to live well within the means of nature
Humanity currently uses the equivalent resources of 1.6 Earths, with carbon sequestration making up more than half of that demand on nature, according to data…
US-China climate pledge: true or false, good anyway
Three days ago the United States and China pledged to strengthen cooperation on climate and clean energy. Boom. Enthusiasm everywhere. When the US and China…
On the road to Paris
100 to go. Developed country Parties under the Kyoto Protocol today enter the final 100 days of the emission reduction treaty’s accounting period during which they ensure…
An inconvenient truth
High expectations are being built around the forthcoming 21st Conference of the Parties (COP-21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will…
Obama’s Crucial Step on Climate Change
President Obama’s Clean Power Plan has rightly been hailed as the most important action any president has taken to address the climate crisis. The new rule…
Obama’s new emissions rules likely to help shape White House race
With Monday’s release of landmark rules to combat global warming, President Obama is putting into place what probably will be the last piece of his…
Pope Francis Sounds the Alarm on Climate Change
[…] Earlier in June, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, took the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.2 billion…
Stalling increase in emissions: a new trend or a temporary blip?
Spring, the season of new beginnings, also marked the beginning of something new. In March came data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) indicating global…
China agree to fight carbon emissions
Diplomats in Paris were beaming when the world’s most populous country announced plans to start cutting its net CO2 emissions “around 2030”. But environmentalists were…