With $468 trillion in assets across the globe, there is no shortage of cash to prevent climate harm; the problem is that the priorities, rules and incentives that govern public and private finance have long been pointing in the wrong direction. Nick Robins writes from COP27 on the steps being made to transform finance for a net zero and resilient world. Read more
Investing in clean energy systems and technologies is just as urgent a priority for fragile and conflict-affected situations as it is for more stable environments, and a positive feedback loop exists between securing access to clean energy, state-building and peace, argue Camilla Sacchetto, Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor. Read more
With Extinction Rebellion bringing parts of London to a standstill, right-wing national newspapers have been growing increasingly desperate in their... Read more
A handful of campaigners who promote the use of fossil fuels are using newspaper articles to offer a deeply unfair... Read more
In July, representatives of 166 countries, civil society and international institutions gathered in New York for the High-level Political Forum... Read more
West Africa exhibits decadal patterns in the behaviour of droughts and floods, creating challenges for effective water resources management. Proposed... Read more
The authors of this paper systematically review more than three decades of scientific literature on institutions in forest use and management. Read more
Companies that fail to plan for business scenarios in a low-carbon economy risk decline or even bankruptcy, according to a submission to the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures from the Grantham Research Institute. Read more
The 27th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, known as COP27,... Read more
