If the world is to transition to a climate-compatible future, much will turn on new innovations in clean energy and whether they can be deployed at a large scale.

For the last few decades, the consensus among leading economists has been that putting a price on carbon is the most efficient way to reduce emissions.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says negative emissions technologies will be needed to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to well below 2℃. In other words, just cutting emissions is not enough – we must also take existing greenhouse gases from the air.

Private sector banks in the UK should have a central role in financing climate action and supporting a just transition to a low carbon economy.

For airlines, the reckoning is no longer far away on the horizon. It’s now a jumbo jet meters from the runway, landing gear down.

The Australian government’s investment roadmap for low-emissions technologies promises more taxpayers’ money to the gas industry but fails to deliver the policy needed for people to support a transition to renewable energy.

If I were to buy an electric vehicle it would add to the load on the national grid. Is the only way we are currently able to add the extra power to burn more coal?

Green growth has emerged as the dominant narrative for tackling contemporary environmental problems.

COVID-19 has radically changed our travel habits in just a matter of weeks. Walking and cycling are up, as people enjoy their daily exercise or take essential journeys they might otherwise have made by public transport.

The numbers of people cycling and walking in public spaces during COVID-19 has skyrocketed.

‘We’re doomed’: a common refrain in casual conversation about climate change. It signals an awareness that we cannot, strictly speaking, avert climate change.

This isn’t a normal period of disruption, which is usually caused by failures in supply such as road accidents or industrial action. In this case it is the lack of demand that is the problem.

Science warns us that the 2020s will be humanity’s last opportunity to save itself from a climate catastrophe.

The world is about to experience one of the biggest housing booms in history over the coming decades. In the UK, the housing crisis is a recurring news story, with a lack of affordable housing and problems with the quality of the housing stock.

Luxembourg recently became the first country in the world to make all public transport free.

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese sought to claim the climate policy high ground last week with his commitment to a net-zero emissions target by 2050

A silent revolution is happening in investing. It is a paradigm shift that will have a profound impact on corporations, countries and pressing issues like climate change. 

The protests started on Oct. 2 in response to the federal government’s “Decreto 883,” a packet of economic adjustments that eliminated a government fuel subsidy worth close to US$1.4 billion per year.

A majority of American millennials reject the economic system, while 55% of women age 18 to 54 say they prefer socialism.

Australia’s recent bushfire crisis will be remembered for many things – not least, the tragic loss of life, property and landscape.

More people than ever are acutely aware that rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere are accelerating climate change and global warming.

This erasure of one government’s climate project by its successor was only the tip of the melting iceberg.

City is latest in the country to offer publicly-funded transportation for residents and visitors.