climate crisis

By: Joseph Opoku Gakpo The world’s poor and marginalized people are suffering the most from climate change impacts, though they contribute the least to the carbon emissions that are driving global warming, according to new research by…
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By: Hope Mafaranga As Uganda develops its e-waste policy, neighboring Rwanda establishes a broad-based plan involving incentives and high-tech facilities. As many countries in Africa embrace the latest technology—smartphones,…
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A new digital clock has been unveiled in Manhattan’s Union Square in New York City, displaying the time left to act – down to the very second – before we reach complete climate collapse. The installation is a part of a campaign by artists…
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By: Shashikant Yadav Corporations in India can explore shale gas reserves without obtaining environmental clearances. Oil and gas corporations have been allowed to begin drilling and other hydrocarbon exploration activities in…
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By: Mark Hertsgaard The people have marched, and now it’s time to vote. What follows are not candidate endorsements. Rather, this nonpartisan guide aims to inform voters’ choices, help journalists decide what races to…
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Last week, President Xi Jinping made a surprise announcement during the United Nations conference that China will drastically slash emissions and reach net-zero by 2060. As the world’s biggest polluting nation, the country’s renewed…
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As the world continues to battle both the coronavirus pandemic and the climate emergency, many are calling for sustainability to be prioritised in the recovery process, which represents an opportunity for the world to build back better.…
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Climate Action 100+, an initiative backed by over 500 of the world’s biggest institutional investors that together manage more than US$47 trillion in assets, has written to 161 big-emitting companies demanding them to set climate targets.…
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By: Hannah Murphy, with contribution from Andy Kroll What Joe Biden would need to do starting from Day One to correct the course of U.S. climate policy. When he talks about the Trump administration, David Doniger likes to say:…
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By: Mike Ludwig Polling shows that people in the United States are taking climate change more seriously today than they were five years ago, but views on climate change remain sharply divided along partisan lines as the November…
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By: Trone Dowd A poll conducted by VICE News, The Guardian and several partners shows that voters want job training for workers who left the fossil fuel industry as well as a carbon tax. A majority of U.S. voters want to see…
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By: Bill McKibben Captain Trump wants to steer us straight onto the rocks. This election is humanity’s last shot to prevent utter climate catastrophe. To understand the planetary importance of this autumn’s presidential…
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The United Nations has debuted a first-of-its-kind film calling for global collective action on the world’s biggest issues that have been outlined under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As a part of the United Nations Media…
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By: Lisa Held Fires rage in the West as storms, hurricanes, and floods hit the rest of the country. Progressives are pushing Biden to transform the food system and manage and mitigate the effects of the climate crisis. Last…
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By: Colleen Hagerty A photo of a girl in a hoodie, skipping school to sit in front of a government building in Sweden with a no-frills sign: “Skolstrejk för Klimatet” or “School Strike for Climate”; a video of dozens of young…
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Researchers have found that under the business-as-usual scenario, by 2300, the planet will see global temperatures reach a level that hasn’t been seen in 50 million years. Scientists compiled a climate record on Earth extending up to 66…
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London-based material science company Pangaia has just launched its first zero-waste sneaker made from grape leather. The minimalist shoe features not only plant-based leather, but also 100% recycled natural materials to ensure that no new…
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More than 150 public figures, including actors Stephen Fry and Mark Rylance, have stood behind Extinction Rebellion against the U.K. government’s moves to classify the activist organisation as an “organised crime group”. In a letter, the…
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By: Jeff Berardelli Right on the heels of arguably the West Coast's most intense heat wave in modern history comes the most ferocious flare-up of catastrophic wildfires in recent memory. Meanwhile, just a few hundred miles…
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In a recent series of interviews with Covering Climate Now partners, the United Nations Secretary General General António Guterres stressed the interconnectedness of the two biggest disasters the world is currently facing – the coronavirus…
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A new report is warning that climate change could displace more than 1 billion people in the next few decades. The analysis says that countries that are unable to withstand environmental threats will be among the world’s least peaceful…
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