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Policy & Finance

How Europe can get the green deal done

If the EU is to achieve its 2030 and 2050 climate goals, it must act now to ensure that it can weather the inevitable political headwinds. A new green social contract and industrial policy can make all the difference.
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Policy & Finance

Smarter climate finance for the developing world

Without a concerted effort by governments and international financial institutions to harmonise standards and strengthen incentives for investments in decarbonisation across the developing world, mid-century net-zero targets will slip out of reach. Three issues, in particular, warrant greater attention.
Climate change-induced drought in Mongolia

Policy & Finance

Today’s crises are different

The fallout from Covid-19, climate change and conflicts are no longer isolated pockets of misery. We need a new multilateral system – one mirroring national schemes on taxes, incentives and accountability – to provide global public goods.
Forests cleared along Oregon’s Coast Range in the US

Carbon & Climate

Keeping trees in the ground where they are already growing is an effective low-tech way to slow climate change

Permanently protecting large, mature forests is a faster and cheaper way to stabilise Earth's climate than complex carbon capture and storage schemes, and more effective than planting new trees.

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23 April 2020

Rohingya refugee children hunger

Policy & Finance

The IMF and World Bank gathered virtually in the midst of Covid-19. What next? Invest in people and nature for recovery and resilience

24 January 2020

hotel carbon footprint

Carbon & Climate

Want to really hold businesses to account? Look at their supply chains

23 January 2020

china solar panel

Policy & Finance

How can China lead the global green trade drive?

20 January 2020

amazon rainforest fires

Carbon & Climate

10 biggest changes of the decade for forests

15 November 2019

Steiner op-ed

Policy & Finance

A new deal for sustainable development

15 October 2019

haze riau indonesia

Policy & Finance

Building ‘blocks’ to fight the haze

9 October 2019

forest fire east kalimantan indonesia

Carbon & Climate

Intense forest fires threaten to derail Indonesia’s progress in reducing deforestation

3 October 2019

bank of china

Policy & Finance

How are banks doing on sustainable finance commitments? Not good enough

25 July 2019

waste segregation in china

Waste

Cashing in on the waste sorting revolution

11 January 2019

Economic growth spelled out in Scrabble tiles

Policy & Finance

Sooner or later, we have to stop economic growth—and we'll be better for it

6 September 2018

A laborer hauls crushed rocks pulversied by a diesel-powered crusher in the shadow of a wind turbine.

Energy

Can we achieve universal electricity access without coal?

30 August 2018

Cars parked in Kuala Lumpur

Transport

EV or not, Malaysia does not need another national car project

24 August 2018

A wind farm in France

Carbon & Climate

Debate: carbon tax, an optical illusion

22 February 2018

women in dhaka hospital

Policy & Finance

5 ways to make Asian cities more inclusive

5 January 2018

Motorists queue for fuel at a petrol kiosk in Seminyak, Bali.

Policy & Finance

Fossil fuel subsidies – a harmful government expenditure

12 September 2014

denmark windmills

Policy & Finance

How governments can drive the green revolution

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