The Green New Deal as a catalyst for smoothing out social inequality
Humanity has a decade to reduce carbon emissions or face climate change devastation, reckons the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The United Nations’ group is…
Humanity has a decade to reduce carbon emissions or face climate change devastation, reckons the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The United Nations’ group is…
In the seventh article of a series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at Australia’s complex climate politics and…
In the sixth article of a series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at Indonesia’s efforts to curb deforestation…
In the fifth article of a series explaining how large emitters are positioned to tackle climate change, Carbon Brief sets out India’s key policy developments,…
Under the proposal, the country could add a large coal power plant every 2 weeks for the next 12 years The largest power producers in…
In the fourth article in a series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at South Africa’s heavy dependence on…
Steven Huckle, University of Sussex Bitcoin recently turned ten years old. In that time, it has proved revolutionary because it ignores the need for modern…
While drought policy raises many complex emotional, political and policy issues, it can be helpful to think of it as an insurance problem: how can…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”…