Climate and Energy

With the backdrop of deepening vaccine inequality, climate disasters, and continued efforts to delay real action, we gathered the perspectives of COP26 delegates ahead of the conference.

The UN climate regime has a gender problem and it negatively affects our ability to combat the climate crisis.

How media coverage of climate issues can shape the outcomes of negotiations.

Climate policy expert Stefan Aykut reviews the COP process and its successes since the 2015 Paris Agreement.

What does the Chinese decision to stop investment in coal plants abroad mean for the wider energy transition?

Climate was an important feature of the Norwegian elections, but if this was indeed the first “climate election”, the results are disappointing.

An international energy agreement allows corporations to sue nation-states for phasing out fossil fuels.

What story will be told by the plastic, carbon, concrete, nuclear waste, and cities we leave behind?

A new type of denialism is taking hold in the fossil fuel industry, a bid to ward off systemic change and protect their business model.

After her Pulitzer-winning The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book, Under a White Sky, describes the world of “techno-fixes” to the damage we have inflicted on nature.