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The disruption to the earth’s climate will ultimately command more attention and resources and have a greater influence on the global economy and international relations than any other force.

Joshua Busby

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Environment Feb 28, 2020 Snapshot

How China Became the World’s Leader in Green Energy

China has never been the most enthusiastic party to international climate accords, but Beijing might end up saving the planet anyway. In little more than a decade,...

Scott Malcomson

Technicians check solar panels in Handan, Hebei Province, November 2019

Environment Feb 10, 2020 Snapshot

The Amazon Is Nearing the Point of No Return

Unless governments across South America join together to protect the vast rainforest ecosystem, its southern and eastern regions will eventually turn into a grassland...

Thomas Lovejoy

A man chops branches as part of the rainforest burns, 1997

Climate Change Nov 25, 2019 Snapshot

The Amazon Comes to Rome

Although his opponents created distractions during the Amazon synod, Pope Francis persevered in advancing an agenda that facilitates concrete gains for those dedicated...

Victor Gaetan

Pope Francis arrives at a session of the Synod on the Amazon, Vatican City, October 2019

Energy January/February 2020 Essay

Adapt or Perish

The United States must build up resilience to climate change.

Alice Hill and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz

It’s getting hot in here: a fire in Windsor, California, October 2019

Climate Change Nov 7, 2019 Snapshot

Troubles on the Mekong

The communities that depend on the Mekong River find themselves at the nexus of seemingly implacable forces: the consequences of climate change, the geopolitical...

Sam Geall

The site of a dam on a tributary of the Mekong in northern Laos, December 2018

Global Health Sep 23, 2019 Snapshot

Climate Change Is Already Killing Us

The health effects of climate change are worse than anticipated—and they’re already being felt.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Environment March/April 2019 Essay

Less Than Zero

Negative Emission Technologies—technologies that remove carbon dioxide from the air—are a crucial complement to carbon-neutral technologies.

Fred Krupp, Nathaniel Keohane, and Eric Pooley

Climeworks, a facility for capturing carbon dioxide from the air, in Hinwil, Switzerland, July 2017

Climate Change Nov 29, 2018 Snapshot

Climate Shocks and Humanitarian Crises

Which countries are most at risk from climate-related instability and humanitarian crises in the coming years?

Joshua Busby and Nina von Uexkull

A woman and her child in a drought-stricken region of Somaliland, April 2016.

Climate Change Oct 31, 2018 List

How to Understand the Geopolitics of Climate Change

As the World Warms, How Should States Respond?

Climate Change Sep 24, 2018 Snapshot

All Climate Politics Is Local

Washington may have walked away from climate commitments, but subnational groups are unlikely to back down.

Angel Hsu and Amy Weinfurter

Mayor of Bonn Ashok-Alexander Sridharan, former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and COP 23 President Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama of Fiji attend the COP23 UN Climate Change Conference, in Bonn, Germany, November 2017.

Climate Change Sep 18, 2018 Snapshot

Climate Change Is a Chronic Condition

Managing the impacts of climate change requires a fundamentally different approach from the way most policymakers currently think about the issue.

Kate Gordon and Julio Friedmann

Houses sit in floodwater caused by Hurricane Florence, in this aerial picture, on the outskirts of Lumberton, North Carolina, September 2018.

Environment Aug 9, 2018 Snapshot

Water Wars on the Nile

Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam project—set to become Africa's biggest hydroelectic dam—has set the country on a collision course with Egypt. The outcome may well hinge on...

Daniel Benaim and Michael Wahid Hanna

Global Health Jul 31, 2018 Snapshot

Climate Extremes and Global Health

New research in climate science indicates that extreme events, such as heat waves, the collapse of major ice sheets, and mass extinctions, are becoming dramatically...

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Partha Dasgupta, Joachim von Braun, and David G. Victor

A helicopter dropping water on the Carr fire in California, July 2018

Environment July/August 2018 Comment

Warming World

The disruption to the earth’s climate will ultimately command more attention and resources and have a greater influence on the global economy and international...

Joshua Busby

Economics July/August 2018 Essay

Why Carbon Pricing Isn’t Working

In theory, carbon pricing makes sense, but in practice, it isn’t doing much about climate change.

Jeffrey Ball

Bad atmospherics: smokestacks in Jilin, China, February 2013.

Environment Mar 7, 2018 Response

The Truth About the Two-Degree Target

Global emissions have risen faster in the 20 years since the world ratified the two-degree target than they did over the 20 years before.

Ted Nordhaus

A coal-burning power plant can be seen behind a factory in the city of Baotou, in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, October 2010.

Environment Feb 28, 2018 Response

Don’t Abandon the Paris Temperature Target

To abandon the target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels would be a grave mistake.

Jennifer Morgan

Droplets of water fall from a melting ice block harvested from Greenland and installed on Place du Pantheon for a project called Ice Watch Paris, in Paris, December 2015.

Climate Change Feb 8, 2018 Snapshot

The Two-Degree Delusion

The two-degree target, although arbitrary, continues to maintain a talismanic hold over global efforts to address climate change.

Ted Nordhaus

Smoke rises from the coal power plant in Jaenschwalde, Germany, February 2018.

Energy Nov 13, 2017 Snapshot

Why Is Trump's Energy Department Lumping Coal and Nuclear Together?

The Trump administration has proposed a controversial policy to provide large subsidies to both nuclear reactors and coal power plants.

Varun Sivaram and Madison Freeman

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry shakes hands with guest after attending his swearing in ceremony at the Executive Office in Washington, March 2017.

Climate Change Aug 4, 2017 Snapshot

China's Coal Problem

Despite China's averred commitment to climate action, Beijing’s foreign energy investments so far paint a drastically different picture.

Sagatom Saha and Theresa Lou

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How China Became the World’s Leader in Green Energy

The Amazon Is Nearing the Point of No Return

The Amazon Comes to Rome

Adapt or Perish

Troubles on the Mekong

Climate Change Is Already Killing Us

Less Than Zero

Climate Shocks and Humanitarian Crises

How to Understand the Geopolitics of Climate Change

All Climate Politics Is Local

Climate Change Is a Chronic Condition

Water Wars on the Nile

Climate Extremes and Global Health

Warming World

Why Carbon Pricing Isn’t Working

The Truth About the Two-Degree Target

Don’t Abandon the Paris Temperature Target

The Two-Degree Delusion

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