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Why India and China Are Driving the ‘Global Green Shift’

Beth Walker 10/05/2017

In his new book 'Global Green Shift: When Ceres...

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The World Needs to Consider How to Manage the End of the Fossil Fuel Era

Georges Alexandre Lenferna 17/12/2016

The end of fossil fuels is approaching fast. But...

Trump Tower, New York. Credit: Lovro Rumiha/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Trump or No, Climate Change Action Will Take a Beating from Long-Term Economic Forces Anyway

Nagraj Adve 14/11/2016

Conspicuously absent in all mainstream discourse since Trump won...

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A Brief History of Earth: the Lives and Time of the Carboniferous

Sandhya Ramesh 31/07/2016

Life recovered from the mass extinctions in this period,...

A policeman, wearing a mask to protect from severe pollution, secures the area near the Great Hall of the People before the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing

G20 Economies Under Pressure to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Barbara Lewis 29/06/2016

Officials from the UN and the EU, plus 200...

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COP21: Camps Agree on ‘Well Below 2 ºC’ But Claw At Everything Else

Anjali Vaidya 11/12/2015

The trouble is, although the Paris agreement is going...

Scholven Power Station, a coal-fired power plant, in Germany. Credit: Guy Gorek

‘Production Subsidies are Driving the World to Burn More Fossil Fuel than it Needs’

The Wire Staff 12/11/2015

Unfortunately, these environmentally damaging subsidies are often ignored during...