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.
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Articles on Paris climate accord
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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.
We may only have 12 years to stop climate change and the landmark Paris Agreement of 2015 seems more in doubt than ever. What can we hope to come out of COP24?
With so much attention focused on what agreements come out of COP24, protesters should be seizing the initiative to attack the root causes of climate change.
Top contributors
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A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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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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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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honorary Professor, The University of Melbourne
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CEO, Climateworks Centre
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
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Distinguished Scholar, NCAR; Affiliate Faculty, University of Auckland
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Professor of Public Sector Management, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Climate Science, University of Reading
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Professor, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of International Relations, University of California, San Diego
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Visiting Fellow, Science Policy, University of Sussex
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
