News & commentaries

Countries should not create an ‘artificial horse race’ between action on climate change and economic growth, Nicholas Stern tells ambassadors
Countries must recognise that tackling climate change does not mean sacrificing economic growth and development, Nicholas Stern told an audience of ambassadors in Paris. read more »

Climate is critical in southern Africa’s water-energy-food nexus
Professorial Research Fellow, Declan Conway, writes about the recent upsurge in research and policy interest in natural resource scarcity, particularly in relation to the water-energy-food nexus. read more »

Countries are falling short of the 2°C target but Paris can unlock four keys to climate action
Policy analyst, Rodney Boyd, reflects on a recent report which showed countries were falling short in efforts to avoid dangerous climate change. read more »

New analysis finds that emissions pledges ahead of UN climate summit are not ambitious enough to avoid dangerous climate change
The pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that have been made so far by countries ahead of a crucial climate change summit are not sufficient to avoid dangerous global warming of more than 2 centigrade degrees. read more »

What scale for water governance?
Declan Conway is among a number of leading experts in the field to contribute to a series of essays debating key issues in freshwater research and management in Science magazine. read more »




