Responding with urgency: the role of UK aid in combating climate change
Patrick Curran considers the findings of a new parliamentary report on UK aid for combating climate change. read more »
News category: Commentary
Urgent response needed from UK Government on net-zero emissions
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 »
Engineering the planet’s temperature: clash or cooperation?
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 »
How do UK businesses walk the talk of net-zero ambition?
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 »
Cyclone Idai’s devastating impacts highlight the importance of overseas aid from rich to poor countries
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 »
Is the UK doing enough to prepare for the last days of coal and the eventual phase-out of oil and gas?
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 »
Young Americans will no longer be silent on climate change
Bob Ward looks at how young people in the US are taking action on climate change through student strikes and legal cases. read more »
A personal and professional perspective on the school ‘climate strike’
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 »
Fundamental flaw in Press watchdog’s complaints process helps newspapers to promote climate change denial
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 »
Sustainable finance in troubling times: five actions to prevent market turbulence turning into a crisis
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 »