Farming carbon
Dr Mandy Stoker tells how captured carbon is neither black gold nor a guaranteed green deal. The 5,000 trees we planted seven years ago are bursting into leaf. They have …
Farming carbon Read MorePublished by Promoting Economic Pluralism
Dr Mandy Stoker tells how captured carbon is neither black gold nor a guaranteed green deal. The 5,000 trees we planted seven years ago are bursting into leaf. They have …
Farming carbon Read MoreThe UK is in the grip of a fierce cost-of-living crisis. In May, the country’s inflation rate hit a 40-year high of 9%, and although the current crisis is global, the …
Climate versus cost: what does the UK’s energy crisis tell us about the economics of net-zero in an energy-scarce world? Read MoreIt is hard to know how much Sri Lankan forest has been cut down as fuel shortages force people to use firewood to cook: inspectors have halted deforestation patrols because …
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis exposes gaps in renewable energy push Read MoreA brew of chemical fertilisers, sewage and other pollutants is costing lives and money as it splashes over our environment and our dinner plates. Jyoti Banerjee and Arnav Jain offer …
Farmers plough their own furrow to change Read MoreWealthy nations are trying to make up for a $10bn shortfall in the $100bn annual target for climate finance they were supposed to have met in 2020, according to Bloomberg. …
Rich countries fall $10bn short in climate finance pledges Read MoreIf the way out of climate crisis requires a world that works together, can economics and markets provide the direction? Şerban Scrieciu reflects. Two globally significant events this year have …
All together. How? Read MoreTwo controversial new projects propose laying thousands of miles of pipe through America’s Corn Belt, carrying liquid carbon dioxide across five states, from Iowa to the Dakotas, where they’d wind …
The Oil Industry’s New Climate Change Solution Is More Pipelines Read MoreG20 environment ministers in Naples, Italy, concluded a “hard-fought summit” yesterday, reports the Financial Times, which “at times appeared to be on the brink of disintegrating”. The newspaper continues: “In the …
Fraught G20 meeting highlights divisions Read MoreFor decades, rich and poor countries were trapped in a stalemate over how to deal with the carbon-dioxide coated, rapidly overheating planet. The United States and other developed countries — …
A $100 billion promise holds the Paris Agreement together. Now, it’s coming apart. Read MoreThe UK government has once again failed to come forward with sufficient policies to meet the ambition of its climate goals, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC). Across nearly …
UK will miss climate goals by without new policies Read More