Whereas oil producers like Saudi and the UAE are spending heavily to diversify away from carbon, the same can’t be said of many other Opec members.
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Biden and Trump are polar opposites when it comes to policy. But they have wielded the power of the presidency in similar ways.
The Tongass National Forest in Alaska, a focus of political battles over old-growth logging and road-building in forests for decades, has received new protection from the Biden administration.
Two energy and climate policy experts take a closer look at the Leaders Summit on Climate, the US pledge and today’s industrial reality.
The snail’s pace of action in this year’s federal budget on climate is out of step with the urgency of the climate and income inequality crises.
Biden’s inaugural speech focused mainly on healing domestic rifts and a new kind of politics at home. But he also signalled a return to engagement with the outside world.
A new plan targets areas around the world that can store carbon and protect large numbers of species. It calls for preserving these lands, working with Indigenous peoples and connecting wild areas.
To avoid global warming on a catastrophic scale, nations need to reduce emissions and find ways to pull carbon from the air. One promising solution: spreading rock dust on farm fields.
This idea environmental regulation hurts the economy is deeply entrenched in pro-business discourse. Our analysis of 22 nations suggest, in the long term, the opposite is true.
Canada keeps revising and updating its emissions targets, diverting attention from its failures to make any progress at all.
A Biden presidency would be highly likely to adopt policies that would restore the cooperative links that prevailed under Obama.
Activists wanted nations to make bigger climate commitments at the Madrid COP-25 meeting, but the meeting’s real goal was agreeing on rules for pricing carbon pollution.
Emperor Penguins thrive in harsh conditions, but a new study shows that their fate depends on human action to slow global warming and associated loss of sea ice.
Canada’s first serious attempt, and potentially last opportunity, to implement a national climate strategy hangs in the balance on Oct. 21. The Trudeau government is to blame for its precarity.
The United Nations is calling on world governments to step up action against climate change. Can China, the world’s biggest carbon emitter, fulfill its pledges?
Shipping companies are expected to halve their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
A new study lays out a road map for protecting and restoring 50% of Earth’s surface, targeted to preserve biodiversity and maximize natural removal of carbon from the atmosphere.
Protecting forests and wetlands, which absorb and store carbon, is one way to slow climate change. Scientists are proposing similar treatment for marine animals that help store carbon in the oceans.
Climate change is a serious threat now for poor people in developing countries, but the COP24 conference in Poland offered them little hope of near-term emissions cuts or economic aid.
An economist breaks down results on two key issues at the COP24 climate change meeting: getting all nations to use the same measuring and reporting rules, and linking policies across borders.
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Professor of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan
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Director, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science and Professor, Arizona State University
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A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Director, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University
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Professor & Greenbaum/Ferguson/NJAR Endowed Chair in Real Estate Policy, Monmouth University
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Resilient Agriculture Coordinator, Drake University
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Professor of Energy Economics, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
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Distinguished Scholar, NCAR; Affiliate Faculty, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Director of the Master of Bioethics degree program at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
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Lecturer, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Marina v. N. Whitman es Amigo de The Conversation.
Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy, University of Michigan
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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University of Edinburgh
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Professor, Tepper School of Business, Engineering and Public Policy and Co-Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon University
