The Paris climate agreement will be officially signed in New York today. Countries committed to keep global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The aim is in fact 1.5 degrees. This target is still a source of concern and debate in the scientific community. Continue Reading
With the ink just dried on last year’s historic UN agreements on climate change and sustainable development, the focus shifts to cities for the Habitat III conference. Interview with Joan Clos, Executive Director of UN Habitat. Continue Reading
The Paris agreement approved by 195 countries in December contained an unexpectedly ambitious goal: to keep global warming within 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. We asked economists what they thought were the most urgent priorities to get the world on track towards that objective. Continue Reading
Island nations are preparing their younger generations to deal with the changes of their local environment. Of those, the Dominican Republic has become a champion of climate education. Continue Reading
What’s the connection between climate and economics? In the past four decades debate has focused on the economic impacts of environmental degradation and regulation. Recently, however, the influence of economics on climate policy has evolved from a narrow focus on cost to large systemic change. Continue Reading
Even though everyone talks about the weather and everyone has a stake in what happens with the climate, making climate science accessible to the public has always been a challenge. The result is a general perception of global warming as an abstract, distant or overwhelming problem. But things can be reversed. Continue Reading
Imagine if companies were held responsible for ignoring the risk of climate change in their investment decisions. The problem is real, as pension funds could be accumulating assets that in the long run will not earn financial returns. Continue Reading