Most companies struggle to track their carbon emissions. Here’s what they can do about it
Many corporations still use spreadsheets to track their carbon footprint, making it difficult to abide by science-backed emissions targets.
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The vast majority of scientists agree that human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels that release greenhouse gases, are now the main driving force behind climate change, which is raising global temperatures and affecting weather patterns. Here you can find the New Statesman’s expert coverage on climate change as well as our analysis on activism, climate justice and the overall crisis.
Saving Our Wild Isles is David Attenborough’s most political show yet
This extra, iPlayer-only follow-up to the popular BBC series, is far more explicit about our ecological emergency and what must…
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Plastic lawns are not a crime
Pseudo-environmentalists are taking away the right to be tacky.
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The government’s climate plans are a recipe for disaster
What was touted as a “Green Day” instead revealed a refusal to acknowledge painful realities.
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We should remain sceptical about carbon removal
Schemes to suck up carbon emissions may be essential, but some fear they could be letting politicians off the hook.
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Concern about climate change stays strong through cost-of-living crisis
Climate action remains a popular policy among the UK population.
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Extinction Rebellion makes a splash on ‘Fleet Street’
Not before plastering the wrong building in green paint.
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“Everything, everywhere, all at once”: UN climate report has no time for doomism
A definitive new IPCC assessment of the climate emergency presses for action over despair.
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Vanuatu’s existential climate threat: “Losing my country is not an option”
In the wake of the latest warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Pacific island nation renews calls…
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New analysis suggests climate coverage downplays livestock’s impact
Polling reveals a lack of knowledge about the environmental harm done by livestock consumption.
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What would make Jeremy Hunt’s budget a green success?
Six announcements to look out for in the Chancellor’s spring statement.
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Britain will keep getting weirder
Covid-era conspiracy thinking has become a permanent feature of national life.
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It’s time to talk policy in the SNP leadership race
So far, constitutional matters have dominated the debate over key issues like the climate and child poverty.
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The eradication of species
Biodiversity is not just an asset from which humans gain. We have complex social relations with all non-human life.
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Why communities are vital to tackling the multiple crises we face
Radical local policies can build the Green New Deal.
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Ireland’s “storm chasers” show how renewables can tackle fuel poverty
As energy prices soar, so does the case for the green transition.
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Andy Palmer on Britishvolt and why the automotive sector is “staring into the abyss”
The former Nissan executive and godfather of the electric car, says the UK will have no auto industry without battery…
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Can a new university breathe life into Britain’s climate education?
Black Mountains College in Wales, and its co-founder Ben Rawlence, is advocating a wartime-style overhaul of the way people are…
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Minette Batters: “Food cannot be the poor relation to the environment”
Minette Batters, head of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU), doubles down on food security in the face of green farm…
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To tackle the climate “doom loop”, embrace the hope spiral
Managing our emotional reaction to the climate crisis is as vital as our policy response.
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