Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Donald Trump’s would be climate saboteurs might have hoped that merely the mention of their intention to quit the Paris Agreement would be enough for the climate talks to fall apart at the annual climate summit in Marrakech.
"I don’t know what comes next. I just know that the people are going to continue to resist, and it’s a great moment to be alive."
Trump’s win will slow climate action and renewables, but as the reactions at COP 22 show already, he will fail in his fossil promises
The money used to tackle climate change — “climate finance” — comes in many guises, which means that measuring it is a mammoth and complex task.
The shipping industry needs to clean up its CO2 emissions now.
"The important goal that needs to be set in Marrakech is drawdown. We need to get back below 350 ppm carbon in the atmosphere, and we need to do it quickly."
The two biggest greenhouse gas emitters in the world have formally joined the Paris climate agreement.
It feels to me that we find ourselves in a new world.
We just sent out our Fleming Policy Centre newsletter, with reflections on the Paris climate summit. Bottom line: it’s not good.
The day after can be a source of regret, or a new beginning. It all depends on how much we can perceive the importance of events in time, in history, in life itself.
Hypocrisy can take many forms, but at COP 21 it has one underlying purpose:
James Hansen is fretting about the Paris climate talks, and for good reason.
