The dust has settled on COP26 and one of the summit’s few achievements looks decidedly less impressive.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
COP26 – Articles, Analysis, Comment
Displaying 1 - 25 of 33 articles
Strengthen commitments to reduce emissions by 2030, redouble efforts to raise climate finance and junk fossil fuel subsidies.
COP26 resulted in new climate commitments from countries across the world - here’s what they could mean for our future.
Rich countries like the UK have almost left coal power behind, but it’s not as easy for developing countries.
Loss and damage – the three words which define the Glasgow summit’s disappointing outcome.
Has the summit delivered on its goals?
COP26 saw incremental progress but not the breakthrough moment needed.
Mainstream reporters not familiar with the topic may spin the summit as a huge success or devastating failure.
Embodied emissions in buildings could be a hidden setback for carbon reduction targets.
Experts explain the latest evidence on eco-anxiety in The Conversation Weekly.
In Paris, the French drafted ambitious texts and dared the biggest emitters to oppose it. In Glasgow, it’s the least developed countries which will have to do the most work.
One-tenth of global emissions result from the production and supply of building materials – and the construction process itself.
Some pollution is locked in for years to come, and there are no simple solutions.
Women’s climate knowledge is often overlooked, despite it being a vital resource for adapting to a warming world.
Subsidies could help kickstart cost cutting and innovation in this prohibitively expensive industry.
Coal, cars, cash and trees: but what about the cows?
Nature-based solutions can help us sustainably tackle climate disasters - but to do that, they urgently need policy support.
Military emissions reporting is only voluntary. And what we cannot see, they will not cut.
Fossil fuels account for one in five premature adult deaths each year.
A report found the amount of funding needed to adapt to climate change exceeds what has so far been delivered by 80%.
Failures to respond adequately to the floods that hit Germany and Luxembourg in July 2021 must teach us how to prepare for future climate disasters.
The global shipping sector delivers 90% of global trade and has a carbon footprint the size of Germany’s.
Cold-water corals live in the Atlantic’s frigid depths – and the UK is a stronghold for them.
Early investments generate rapid cost reductions, while further delay simply slows innovation and compounds the climate crisis.
Reducing jet fuel consumption by 2.5% each year could halt aviation’s growing influence on climate change.