Nov 06, 2021 08:33 am UTC| Economy
The almost mystical Green Climate Fund is back in the headlines at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. The fund grew out of a promise made by rich nations in 2009 to provide US$100 billion (74 billion) per year in climate...
Climate clock reset shows the world is one year closer to 1.5 C warming threshold
Nov 06, 2021 08:22 am UTC| Nature
Global carbon dioxide emissions are expected to increase to almost 2019 levels this year, upending last years unprecedented drop caused by COVID-19 lockdowns. This means that emissions are trending upwards again, when they...
COP26: here's what it would take to end coal power worldwide
Nov 06, 2021 08:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
More than 40 countries have signed an agreement at COP26, the latest UN climate change summit in Glasgow, to phase out coal in electricity generation. The signatories include some of the worlds biggest coal burners:...
COP26: a letter to a school striker from 'the physicist behind net zero'
Nov 06, 2021 08:05 am UTC| Insights & Views
Dear school striker, Well done on all you are doing you seem to have made more impact on the climate issue in the past couple of years than Ive managed in the previous three decades working away on it, and Ive been...
Climate change: how economists underestimated benefits of action for decades
Oct 31, 2021 23:33 pm UTC| Economy
The costs of doing nothing vastly outweigh the costs of decarbonising a global economy which, since the Industrial Revolution, has been powered by fossil fuels. That may seem self-evident today, when catastrophic fires and...
How to meet America’s climate goals: 5 policies for Biden’s next climate bill
Oct 31, 2021 23:27 pm UTC| Politics
President Joe Bidens new climate strategy, announced after his original plan crumbled under opposition in Congress, will represent a historic investment in clean energy technology and infrastructure if it is enacted. But...
The most influential climate science paper of all time
Oct 09, 2021 08:29 am UTC| Science
After the second world war, many of Japans smartest scientists found jobs in North American laboratories. Syukuro (Suki) Manabe, a 27-year-old physicist, was part of this brain drain. He was working on weather forecasting...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight