Top news of the week: 29.12.2021.
Climate
Why Cop26 coal power pledges don’t go far enough – visualised
See coal phase out progress to date, and why the current pledges are not enough to limit warming to 1.5C
EXPLAINER-Bangladesh takes baby steps towards climate-friendly just transition
From adopting clean energy in garment factories to helping coastal migrants settle in cities, the South Asian nation has a way to go in planning a greener, fairer future
Climate change: Small army of volunteers keeping deniers off Wikipedia
A group of editors is working tirelessly to keep bad climate info off the user-generated encyclopaedia.
Mia Mottley - Policy Leadership
When Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley stood up in front of the United Nations General Assembly earlier this year, she was not in a mood to pull punches. In front of world leaders, ...
Asad Rehman on climate justice: ‘Now we are seeing these arguments cut through’
Once a ‘reluctant environmentalist’, Rehman is key figure in movement that links climate crisis with racial, economic and social justice
At last I have good news on the climate crisis: all of us really can do something about it
Like most people, I was daunted by the scale of the emergency, but now I think the lifestyle changes needed to make progress are not that difficult, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
In Deep Adaptation’s Focus on Societal Collapse, a Hopeful Call to Action
On a hot day in September, the first session of Mark Alan Hughes’ course, “Introduction to Energy Policy,” met at the University of Pennsylvania. The students sat in a carefully arranged ...
ANALYSIS-UN tonic for forest carbon market omits cure for corporate trading pains
New rules for government carbon trading will help cut emissions by protecting forests, but doubts persist over the credibility of voluntary credits used by companies