This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The research, published in Nature Energy, shows that a low energy demand recovery could reduce a hypothetical tax on all carbon emissions by 19%. The pandemic-related drop in greenhouse gas…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the early months of 2020, we were getting ready to launch a new Ford Global Fellowship, a 10-year, $50-million investment to support leaders to shift structures and systems of inequality…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With the effects of climate change becoming starker, climate philanthropy is taking off as never before. New players like the Bezos Earth Fund are making a splash and overall funding is rising…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic is reversing progress on girls’ and women’s rights, and shining a bright light on social, political, and economic inequities that persist. We are even further away from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The melting Antarctic ice sheet will delay atmospheric warming by about a decade but speed up sea level rise, according to new research. The study, which appears in Nature, is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change will worsen conflict by raising tensions over food, water, and resources, according to studies by a global think tank and the US Department of Defense. “Food insecurity, lack…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Clean water and safe sanitation services have the potential to play a major role in helping the poorest urban communities adapt to climate change, but more needs to be done…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As wildfires ravage the western United States and communities from the gulf to the mid-Atlantic recover from destructive hurricanes, the focus is on the federal government to act on climate,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A lot of energy and money has been put into denying and ignoring environmental change, but industry is slowly changing this approach in a variety of ways. Corporate leaders have actively…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. First, the bad news. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently warned that the world is already locked into at least 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming before 2050. The climate crisis…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The increasingly widespread media coverage of surveillance and spyware technologies used to track ethnic and racial minorities and immigrants and surveil journalists, human rights activists and other prominent figures has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. City and regional government leaders and policymakers are being invited to discover how real-time monitoring of urban greenhouse gases (GHGs) can help them in their efforts to tackle climate change.…