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Enlightenment goes viral

I am not a believer in conspiracy theories, but for one moment let’s imagine there exists a shadowy secret society bent on world betterment… The Society had been increasingly worried.

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Carbon upset

With a revolutionary treatise to write, our good Professor Bastion struggles to warm to green heat. It is chaos here.  It all started when our heating system failed. Now we

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A ray of hope

Petrodollars to solar sense: what will be the conversion rate? Frances Coppola speculates. Slowly but surely, the world is giving up on fossil fuels. First coal, then oil, and finally

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Interviews

The differential equation

David Stainforth is professor of physics with a deep passion for modelling the dimensions of the climate crisis in a form that is useful for decision makers and the wider

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Killer watts

Helen Thompson is a professor of international political economy who thinks that understanding energy can explain a lot (if not all as she is careful to say) that has happened

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Talking Shop

Christopher Dent is an international political economist who has been observing how international institutions have talked the neo-liberal language on climate change, energy and environment for the past few decades. 

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Drowning in silence

The Mint spent time with Waqar Rizvi, a media commentator in Pakistan, to discuss views from the global South – particularly its perspectives on demands for climate change compensation –

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Articles

The Bumpy Ride

Roland Kupers argues that fixing the climate crisis will necessarily be turbulent. Our current approach to the climate problem falls well short of what is objectively required, but that does

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As real as it gets

Climate change: Bangladesh is where it is at. Rohini Kamal shows the way.  Debates on climate change are often dominated by heated commentary from the West on its impending peril

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Pensions get the green-lite

Why better pensions help the climate – Bruno Bonizzi explains. In October 2021, two UK-based academics, Dr Neil Davies and Dr Ewan McGaughey, issued proceedings against the directors of the

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The ifs and buts of Hydrogen

Hydrogen may be useful, but how green can it really be? asks Roland Kupers. It has been used for centuries: from lifting the balloon that Jacques Charles floated over Paris

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Beyond denial

Sandra White maps a route through denial and towards action on climate change. Despite growing evidence of climate change, only a few years ago I regularly heard people deny that

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All together. How?

If 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

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Commons concern – interview transcript

The Mint:                     Good afternoon, Erik. And thanks very much for joining The Mint, to talk about your recent book on Elinor Ostrom. Erik Nordman:              Thanks a lot, Henry. It’s my

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Cop out? – Interview transcript

The Mint:                     Hello, Michael. Good day. Thank you very much for joining us to talk to The Mint. Michael Jacobs:             My pleasure. COP26 and Ratcheting up Climate Change Ambition The

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A green light

Mark Davis introduces a local investment vehicle that he says could help local communities achieve Net Zero. Two-thirds of UK councils have declared a Climate Emergency. They have set ambitious

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Out of our heads

Lindsey Hall tells of the ideas behind Real Ideas. Since we founded Real Ideas fourteen years ago, we have worked with all kinds of ideas – big concepts, quirky thoughts,

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Event Recordings

Commons concern – interview transcript

The Mint:                     Good afternoon, Erik. And thanks very much for joining The Mint, to talk about your recent book on Elinor Ostrom. Erik Nordman:              Thanks a lot, Henry. It’s my

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Cop out? – Interview transcript

The Mint:                     Hello, Michael. Good day. Thank you very much for joining us to talk to The Mint. Michael Jacobs:             My pleasure. COP26 and Ratcheting up Climate Change Ambition The

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