Generations arm wrestling for climate
In February, school students across the UK joined a growing international movement of school ‘climate strikes’, which has seen children skip their Friday lessons to…
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Most of rural Africa still has no electricity, and tens of millions of families must cook on open fires and light their homes with candles…
COP24: what to expect
COP24 venue Spodek arena in Katowice, Poland. Milosz Maslanka/Shutterstock Federica Genovese, University of Essex Representatives of almost all the countries on the planet are gathering…
Investment in renewable power in India topped fossil fuels for the first time in 2017, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
This is one of the most striking insights contained within the IEA’s annual update of global energy investment, which was published today. It gives an…
Paul Romer and William Nordhaus – why they won the 2018 ‘economics Nobel’
Sergey V. Popov, Cardiff University William Nordhaus and Paul Romer have been awarded the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (colloquially known as the…
Australia is running out of fuel
Last week, it emerged that Australia was just 43 days away from completely running out of fuel. That would mean people aren’t able to fill…
Oceania: the politicians fiddle, the Pacific burns
It was a black moment, standing before the Australian parliament clasping a lump of coal in a pose of denunciation. Scott Morrison made headlines with…
The Great Inequity of Climate Change
Climate change is a multifaceted phenomenon but is also iniquitous. It affects the most disadvantaged countries harder. In a papal encyclical letter called “Laudato Si”…