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The federal government could use a section in the 2015 Paris Treaty to claim credit for emissions reductions caused by foreign nations replacing coal with natural gas shipments from Canada, …
Could Canada start counting foreign emission reductions towards its Paris Treaty targets? Read More
Reaching net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050, as prescribed by the Paris Agreement, is hard to imagine without a carbon tax. This column estimates that reaching the goal by carbon taxation …
The smokestack illusion: Who really pays for net zero Read More
When the Trump administration announced plans last year to repeal the federal government’s greenhouse gas reporting system, rather than celebrate, many oil and gas companies publicly urged the U.S. Environmental …
Inside the Struggle to Dismantle America’s Greenhouse Gas Data Read More
Indigenous communities around the world face mounting, and colliding, impacts from climate change, violence, rising threats from artificial intelligence, and many other crises. Their leaders are demanding that the world …
Indigenous leaders give the UN a roadmap for protecting their peoples Read More
Together, these initiatives would have made up around half of the £200m that the UK pledged to support conservation in the Congo basin – the world’s second-largest rainforest. When it …
UK withdraws millions in funding from world’s second-largest rainforest in Congo Read More
Debates about the necessity and desirability of economic growth are shifting. Among researchers working on sustainability and climate policy, there is growing scepticism about whether continued economic growth is necessary to achieve …
Most EU citizens support economic growth even though climate experts question its role Read More
Climate inflation is the light on the dashboard telling us our economic vehicle is clapped out. Tim Garrett and Matheus Grasselli suggest some roadside maintenance. What are the thermodynamic origins …
Economic engine erring Read More
Duncan McLaren looks at proposals to develop a questionable engineering measure as a means to counter climate change. The US-Israeli war on Iran has thrown energy resilience back into the …
On reflection Read More
Nelson Bastos wasn’t on the oil company’s programme. But he took the mic anyway. After a lifetime of studying the play of wind and tide in a stretch of ocean …
Drilling in the Mouth of the Amazon: How Brazil’s Oil Giant Is Drowning Out Critics Read More
Earlier this year, a conference was held in the European Parliament to discuss the dangers of nanoplastics. Such an event would not be unusual, were it not for its co-host: …
Inside the doomsday ‘cult’ spreading climate disinformation to global leaders Read More