Responding with urgency: the role of UK aid in combating climate change
Posted 9 May 2019 in Commentary
Patrick Curran considers the findings of a new parliamentary report on UK aid for combating climate change. read more »
Posted 9 May 2019 in Commentary
Patrick Curran considers the findings of a new parliamentary report on UK aid for combating climate change. read more »
Posted 3 May 2019 in Commentary
Bob Ward sets out five urgent actions for the UK Government in response to the Committee on Climate Change’s new report on achieving net-zero emissions read more »
Posted 2 Apr 2019 in Commentary
Considerable uncertainties surround the potential of solar geoengineering, with important questions around governance. This commentary describes a game that finds out what could happen if countries were able to turn the Earth’s thermostat up or down. read more »
Posted 1 Apr 2019 in Commentary
Business must deliver a step-change in its own ambitions and discourse if the UK is to meet a 2050 net-zero emissions target, argues Sam Unsworth. read more »
Posted 22 Mar 2019 in Commentary
Bob Ward argues that the disastrous effects Cyclone Idai on Mozambique has shown the crucial importance of rich countries providing financial support to poor countries, to help them become more resilient to extreme weather and to adapt to climate change. read more »
Posted 28 Feb 2019 in Commentary
The UK’s coal phase-out may be proceeding apace but there remains a gap where ‘just transition’ plans should sit – for coal and for other fossil fuel industry – argues Josh Burke. read more »
Posted 23 Feb 2019 in Commentary
Bob Ward looks at how young people in the US are taking action on climate change through student strikes and legal cases. read more »
Posted 15 Feb 2019 in Commentary
At 11 o’clock this morning thousands of school students in the UK walked out of their lessons to demand increased action on climate change. My 14-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter … read more »
Posted 24 Jan 2019 in Commentary
The Independent Press Standards Organisation has today published details of a decision that exposes a fundamental flaw in its process for dealing with complaints about fake news articles about climate change. read more »
Posted 9 Jan 2019 in Commentary
Sustainable finance ended 2018 on a high. Never before has so much capital been committed to integrating environmental, social and governance factors. But financial markets also entered an unnerving cycle. If we are not careful, growing financial turbulence could divert attention away from the urgent need to scale up investment in climate action and sustainable development, writes Nick Robins. read more »