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Students Malaysia

Policy & Finance

Universities as ministries for sustainable futures?

Universities, not beholden to election cycles or shareholder demands, can invest in research to generate long-term climate data and transcend disciplinary silos, unlike other traditional institutions.
Great barrier reef with scuba diver

Carbon & Climate

Coral restoration is a speculative, feel-good science that won’t save our reefs

At best, targeted coral interventions – which may not always return reefs to a healthy state – risk squandering money, time and trust in science. At worst, they are a dangerous distraction from the need for drastic emissions reduction.
refill station

Waste

UN Plastics Treaty: What can we learn from other international environmental agreements?

Applying lessons from the Montreal Protocol and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will forge an effective Global Plastics Treaty.
Phong Dien Solar PV Park in Thua Thien-Hue, Vietnam

Policy & Finance

Cut the climate doom – exponential green change is possible

From solar and wind, to electric cars and batteries, clean economic growth is happening faster than we thought possible, says the former chief of the We Mean Business coalition and a senior member of the COP26 climate conference in 2021.

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27 January 2023

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Energy

Realism about techno-optimism

27 December 2022

India library

Policy & Finance

India-wide subscription to research journals paves path for Global South

2 September 2022

greeland fjord

Carbon & Climate

What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet?

28 February 2022

Participants of a community-based fire prevention and peatland restoration project in Riau province, Indonesia.

Carbon & Climate

Of parachutes and helicopters: reconstructing the decolonisation agenda in environmental research

2 February 2022

Relicanthus sp. CCZ

Carbon & Climate

Deep ocean carbon drawdown not an easy climate fix

25 January 2022

fire in sequoia national forest

Policy & Finance

Protecting threatened species in a new era of fire

23 February 2021

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

19 February 2021

smokestacks at a power plant

Carbon & Climate

Getting the social cost of carbon right

2 February 2021

arctic ice melting

Policy & Finance

The Arctic on the frontlines

29 January 2021

smoke stack berlin

Carbon & Climate

Science-based target setters are reducing emissions faster than expected. Will they be trend setters?

doomsday clock 2021

Policy & Finance

Covid-19 and the Doomsday Clock

19 January 2021

Sual 1 coal plant Pangasinan, Philippines

Policy & Finance

What the Philippines needs to do in 2021 to deliver its climate pledges

16 July 2020

doctors wearing PPE and masks in Philippines

Policy & Finance

Seizing the health opportunity

2 April 2020

rescued pangolin

Policy & Finance

The new coronavirus emerged from the global wildlife trade – and may be devastating enough to end it

17 March 2020

system change climate protest

Carbon & Climate

Covid-19: a dress rehearsal for the climate emergency?

16 March 2020

pink sky emissions

Carbon & Climate

Global emissions are way off target. What needs to happen?

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