May 19, 2023PINELOPI KOUJIANOU GOLDBERG As tempting as it is to rely on multilateralism to solve a shared global problem like climate change, the world simply does not have the time for…
Category: climateaction
Sustainable food — not more of it — needed as global hunger soars
LONDON – As global hunger swiftly rises — by more than a third last year — curbing it will require not growing more food but rethinking broader systems of trade and aid, farming’s…
Climate change continues to causeuncertainties for commodity prices
It can alter rainfall patterns, increase temperatures, and cause extremClimate played a major role in commodity prices last year and looks like doing so again in 2023. Scorching heatwaves in the northern…
The High Cost of Carbon Pricing
Amid the growing enthusiasm for carbon border taxes, Western policymakers have largely ignored the negative impact on the world’s poorest countries. For carbon-pricing policies to succeed, developed countries must show their commitment…
Green power is the first domino
As world leaders convene at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27), it is obvious to all that bolder action is needed to avert disaster. The UN warns that global efforts to reduce…
COP27: Financing for climate ?damages gets a foot in the door
AFP/Sharm El-Sheikh UN climate negotiations yesterday offered a sliver of hope and “solidarity” for developing countries battered by increasingly costly impacts of global warming, in agreeing to discuss the thorny issue of…
China is doubling down on coal despite its green ambitions
Bloomberg / Beijing China is building a vast array of new coal-fired power stations, potentially more than the operating capacity of the US, even though it knows the plants will probably never…
The EU’s carbon border tax could hurt developing nations
By Miriam Gonzalez Durantez And Calli Obern/ Stanford In July 2021, the European Commission did something that no other major governing body had ever attempted: It tied trade policy to climate policy….
Cheaper, changing, crucial: the rise of solar power
AFP/Paris Generating power from sunlight bouncing off the ground, working at night, even helping to grow strawberries: solar panel technology is evolving fast as costs plummet for a key segment of the…
No net zero without nature
By Nigel Topping And Mahmoud Mohieldin/ London Businesses, investors, and governments that are serious about fulfilling net-zero emissions pledges before 2050 should be rushing to protect, conserve, and regenerate the natural resources…