“Dangerous climate change has arrived”: IPCC report is a warning to the world ahead of Cop26
The latest UN climate assessment is out and the message is clear: wake up and act now or face the…
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Oil companies are gambling the climate on a future that hasn’t yet been invented
Vague promises to get to net zero are based on plans that don’t add up, and technologies that don’t exist.
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Net zero will cost more than $30trn – but who will pay?
Limiting global heating urgently requires investment if even greater costs are to be avoided in future.
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How the trespass movement is battling for a kinder, more inclusive Britain
In the face of a divisive new policing bill which could criminalise trespass and restrict peaceful protest, the right to…
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First Thoughts: Act now on the climate emergency, “I’m with Bonkers”, and the perils of altruism
After wildfires devastate California and commuters drown in China, it is obvious to me that Extinction Rebellion is right.
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This will be a century of extreme weather events. Our politicians are failing to face the challenge
Boris Johnson needs to recognise that flooding could be better controlled if our tattered national infastructure was fixed.
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Mya-Rose Craig: the “Birdgirl” reimagining Britain’s countryside
The British-Bangladeshi teen on youth activists, COP26 and the battle for a more inclusive vision of nature.
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Can “flight shame” still serve the climate movement in the Covid era?
Shame may have been helpful in maintaining lockdown discipline, but it has also had dark consequences during the pandemic.
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