This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In addition to moving from an economy powered predominantly by fossil fuels to one powered by clean energy, an important piece of the climate change mitigation puzzle is arresting deforestation.…
In the last decade, the markets for carbon offsets have grown tremendously in scope breadth and rigor. Meanwhile, impacts of global warming — from stronger, wetter storms to higher temperatures…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This season’s hurricanes have made the case for climate-resilience investing. Details are sketchy for the new fund, announced at COP23 in Bonn, Germany, but the aim is to back businesses committed to “high…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Texas has a surprising clean-energy policy story to tell, one based on market initiatives and deregulation rather than a government-driven approach, said Marilu Hastings, vice president of sustainability programs at the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Carbon offsets have delivered many millions of dollars to finance cookstoves, for better or worse–probably, alas, for worse. Since the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves was formed in 2010, so-called clean cookstoves…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Adaptation was a key issue at the COP23 climate discussions. Representatives from developing countries arrived at the conference in Bonn, Germany, looking for solutions to the problems created by rising temperatures,…
Director of “Bill Nye: Science Guy,” Jason Sussberg, talks about the power of Millennials and the difference that generation will make. Read the source article at Climate One
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The official U.S. delegation had been in stealth mode throughout the global climate conference known as COP23, shutting reporters — and most everyone else — out of its office and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The growing threat of climate change is no longer a matter of contentious scientific debate. Climate scientists now agree that humanity’s “carbon budget”—the cumulative sum of greenhouse gases that humanity…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There’s more than just the future of the climate at stake in the global talks underway in Bonn, Germany. All of the global goals for 2030, from the end of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. World Health Organization officials have announced a new initiative to address the health impacts of climate change on small island developing states. The global health body called for a tripling of…
Communicating about climate change and convincing the public that something needs to be done about it is a complicated proposition, one that reporters Elizabeth Kolbert and David Roberts face daily…