Too many industries have been exempted from carbon rules.
Coatesy
Emissions trading systems are supposed to speed up decarbonisation, but they are not yet capable of doing so in practice.
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Four reasons why the line between activism and business is blurring.
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Wind and solar farms are great. But we need to reduce energy demand and start taking carbon out of the atmosphere.
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Droughts can be a factor in some armed conflicts, but that’s nothing new.
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From trade deals to climate change or biofuels, the European Union’s green record is patchy at best.
Academic freedom is under threat in Turkey.
Umit Bektas/Reuters
Academics and Kurdish areas have been targeted – but the backlash has begun.
Philippe Wojazer /Reuters
The climate agreement is littered with references to a whole range of new and expanded market-based tools.
Amit Dave/Reuters
There’s a huge gap between what India claims it can do, and what it’s actually doing to bring down emissions.
Nacho Doce / Reuters
The latest climate summit will avoid the real issue: capitalism demands exponential growth, driven by fossil-fuels.
Eyes on 2020.
Reuters
November 25, 2015
Vikki McCall , University of Stirling ; Alan Shipman , The Open University ; Anna Vignoles , University of Cambridge ; David Bell , University of Stirling ; Gareth Downing , University of Huddersfield ; Jonquil Lowe , The Open University ; Karen Bloor , University of York ; Michael Kitson , University of Cambridge ; Nigel Driffield , Warwick Business School, University of Warwick ; Roger King , University of Bath ; Sharon Gander , Nottingham Trent University ; Steffen Böhm , University of Exeter , and Susan Harkness , University of Bath
Chancellor George Osborne has laid out his plans for UK spending for the next five years.
Mick Tsikas / EPA
Environmental factors are important, but we must not ignore history and politics.
Lawrence Murray
It used to be outside actors like NGOs and governments that forced companies to be environmentally friendly. But some are building their brand on their CSR.
Charles Platiau / Reuters
If some good can come out of the Volkswagen scandal, it’s that public will be more clued up about air pollution from cars.
Obama talks the talk on renewables, but his plan will help fossil fuels.
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
The unambitious Clean Power Plan is too little, very late.
An environmental activist named David Cameron hugs a husky in Svalbard, 2006.
Andrew Parsons/PA
Summer budget signals a return to the unsustainable ways of the past.
Never mind, we’ve paid some Indians to be green on our behalf.
benleahy
Should solving global warming be left to market forces or not? Our politicians can’t make up their minds.
Sic transit gloria mundi … and down with neoliberalism.
Alessandro Di Meo / EPA
Pope Francis’s intervention in the climate debate puts him on collision course with global elites.
You Shell not pass.
Matt Mills McKnight/EPA
The risks of rising carbon emissions means fossil fuel firms need new strategies now - for the sake of their businesses as well as the planet.
Welcome to the Cantareira desert.
SEBASTIAO MOREIRA / EPA
Growth can be predicted and droughts can be planned for. So why did Brazil’s largest water utility get caught out?
Take five.
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
March 18, 2015
Tony Yates , University of Bristol ; David Spencer , University of Leeds ; Gordon Fletcher , University of Salford ; Jonquil Lowe , The Open University ; Karen Rowlingson , University of Birmingham ; Kate Pickett , University of York ; Paul Wakeling , University of York ; Prem Sikka , University of Essex ; Steffen Böhm , University of Exeter , and Stephen Roper , Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
George Osborne has delivered his fifth and final budget before the general election. Our academic experts respond.
Natalie Bennett pulls her ‘GDP face’.
EPA
Traditional economic measures suit the main parties – but not the electorate.
But what do you want unconsciously?
Julien Behal/PA
Another month, another important UN climate change conference. The latest is in Lima, the capital of Peru. Thousands of experts from the world of politics, business, academia and civil society – and Leonardo…
Price wars are crippling for producers.
Chris Radburn/PA Wire
The crisis of confidence at Tesco signals a remarkable fall from grace given that it wasn’t so long ago that Britons were spending one pound in every seven in its stores. But should we feel sorry for Tesco…
Norway to the rescue?
Travis Lupick
Despite all the treaties, pledges, export bans and labelling schemes, the world’s forests are still disappearing at an alarming rate. In poorer countries a forest may simply be worth less as a living…
Time to look forward.
Artyom Sharbatyan
The 2014 World Cup in Brazil is over. It brought much joy, and huge disappointment for the hosts – perhaps even worse than the Maracanazo in 1950. Now attention in Brazil will turn to hosting the next…