Unravelling the Myth of a “Carbon Budget” for 1.5C
The 2015 Paris climate talks put the 1.5°C temperature target firmly on the policy-making table, whilst also signing off on actions consistent with 3°C or more of warming.
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A Succinct Account of my View on Individual and Collective Action
I am regularly accused of reducing responses to climate change to simple individual action, sacrifice and “having to give things up” – hair shirts and all that. That is categorically not my view.
US Needs White House Climate Change Council to Protect Lives and Economy
With the Zika virus spreading in Florida, it’s timely to consider how we will prepare for our increasing real-time manifestations of climate change.
The Earthquake in Italy and the Silliest Comment ever Received about Climate Change
So, why is the debate on climate change so special? In one sense, it is the sheer vastness of the problem.
School Days in 2040: Saikou’s Day aboard the Tigerfish Floating School
While floating schools certainly aren’t solving the climate crisis in The Gambia and the many other coastal countries where they’ve emerged, they’ve proven to be an ingenious adaptation—one that Saikou feels lucky to be part of.
Flood-Ravaged Gulf Coast Residents Ask President Obama To Cancel Federal Offshore Drilling Lease Auction
During President Obama’s visit to a flood-ravaged area near Baton Rouge, Louisiana this week, a group of environmental activists delivered a petition to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) protesting the planned leasing of more of the Gulf of Mexico for oll and gas drilling.
IPCC Special Report to Scrutinise ‘Feasibility’ of 1.5C Climate Goal
The head of the United Nation’s climate body has called for a thorough assessment of the feasibility of the international goal to limit warming to 1.5C.
Climate Change and Colonial History Make a Toxic Combination
New research points to a powerful link between climate change and armed conflict.
McKibben: It’s time to declare war on climate change
We’re under attack, said author and climate campaigner Bill McKibben, and the only way to defeat the enemy is to declare a global war against the destructive practices that threaten the world’s imperiled ecosystems and human civilization as we know it.
School Days in 2040: Rima’s Day at École Gardiens de la Foret
What might education look like in 2040 if it were to be truly Earth-centric?
Can a “Green Growth” Strategy Solve Climate Change?
Faith in decoupling deflects attention away from the problems that lie at the heart of global environmental (and social) problems…
Earth News: More than News of the World “Let’s Think in Terms of the Next One Hundred Months”
The challenge is greater than preparing individuals and groups to fight back.
