Climate Mitigation
Celia Fernández examines the new face of social justice in the summer heat of the European city.
Read moreItaly is experiencing one of the harshest summers on record, yet ongoing election campaigns zero-in on winning votes.
Read moreExamining how Just Transition could be the key to tackling intersecting crises of environmental breakdown, social injustice, and global inequality.
Read moreWe gather insights from an IPCC lead author and green actors on options for policymakers amid the rapidly closing window for climate adaptation.
Read moreEU trade policy offers carbon-heavy industries an implicit subsidy to pollute, undermining efforts to tackle climate change.
Read moreGeoengineering proposals are already influencing plans to combat climate change more than we realise. But with such high stakes, a public debate is urgently needed.
Read moreRecent extreme weather events in the US can teach Europe valuable lessons about how to prepare for similar situations.
Read moreThe EU submitted its contribution (INDC) to the global climate change agreement in March, which is due to be adopted in Paris in December. It is worth noting that the EU was the first of the major economies to present its offer for the Paris agreement. Nevertheless, the extent to which the offer paves the way to an ambitious climate deal in Paris is questionable indeed.
Read moreClimate science informs us that the impacts of climate change will increase over time, and major effects on South Asia, such as the melting of the Himalayas, will occur more in the future. South Asian economies should focus more on the problems arising from climate change that would result in stunting their development.
Read moreThe new IPCC report on climate change marks the last word from the scientific community ahead of the very important COP21 meeting in Paris next year. Internationally things may be moving in the right direction, but the political will to fully embrace a divestment from fossil fuels to renewables isn’t quite there yet. Nonetheless, activists are working on it…
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