As the US heads to climate talks, it seeks a plan to ‘trust but verify’
Behind the US pledge to cut carbon in Paris climate talks lies a bigger effort to build a durable system to verify all countries’ emission cuts.
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Climate policy creates winners and losers, and governments need to choose the best models to weigh the outcomes
At COP26, governments will have to consider how climate policies help them achieve their emissions targets and affect economies.
Organized crime is a top driver of global deforestation – along with beef, soy, palm oil and wood products
More than 100 world leaders have pledged to end the destruction of forests by 2030 as a way to slow climate change. That will require changing how the world produces four widely used commodities.
6 months after the climate summit, where to find progress on climate change in a more dangerous and divided world
War, famine and an energy crunch are affecting the world’s response to climate change, but there are reasons for optimism.
Setting a carbon budget to keep below two degrees
We have already committed the planet to a certain amount of warming due to past carbon emissions. But efforts to reduce emissions now and over the next few decades will critically affect the degree of…
Kyoto Protocol fails: get ready for a hotter world
Australia is on track at the end of this year to meet its emission reduction target under the Kyoto Protocol. We’ve also signed up to the new version of Kyoto. But that should not encourage us to believe…
US non‑conventional fossil fuel: environmental risks
In the US, extraction of non-conventional fossil fuels is booming. Investment in extra-heavy and heavy oils, oil shales and sands, tight oil and gas, shale gas and coal seam gas is taking off as companies…
New UN report outlines ‘urgent, transformational’ change needed to hold global warming to 1.5°C
Limiting global warming to 1.5C is a tough challenge but still within reach, according to a landmark report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change commissioned after the 2015 Paris summit.
New Zealand’s climate change regulation is messy and complex – here’s how to improve it
New Zealand’s international pledges, domestic laws and carbon budgets run on different timelines. They could be better aligned to make sure everyone understands how Aotearoa plans to cut emissions.
Big new incentives for clean energy aren’t enough – the Inflation Reduction Act was just the first step, now the hard work begins
To put the $370 billion in subsidies to work, the US needs to build new infrastructure and manage a lot of regulatory hurdles.
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