Later this year, dozens of countries that have signed the Paris Agreement are due to submit new national climate plans, which experts say could unlock a new era of green growth.
The Loft of Shared Dreams in Davos underscored the need for collective vision and collaboration to address global issues, transform industries and redefine success.
Sustained economic growth in Asia and the Pacific has lifted millions out of poverty. Yet, the attainment of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 remains well beyond the region’s grasp as less than a sixth of SDG targets will be met on current trends.
Natural disasters are becoming more frequent, deadly and damaging. At the same time, insurers are pulling coverage from areas most vulnerable to wildfires, floods, droughts and hurricanes. Their efforts to dodge the costs will be in vain,
As climate change shifts the distribution of weather variables, it alters the outcomes as well. Yet, predicting how these distributions will evolve is difficult. The further into the future we look, the harder it is to make reliable predictions about both weather and the associated economic costs.
Oil executives, business interests push economic benefits of carbon capture as President Trump takes aim at climate funding OK’d under Biden
In the U.S., the electric power sector is the second-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, according to government figures. And the construction of every new natural gas plant — built to last for decades — is a setback for climate goals, said John Quigley, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.
While geo-engineering like cloud seeding isn’t a secret, there’s not yet a consensus as to whether it will do more harm than good.
The Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Committee on Legal Services on Tuesday hosted the inaugural SILF-CII ESG & Climate Law Day February 18.
Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin has privately pushed the White House for a rewrite of the agency’s finding that planet-warming greenhouse gases imperil the public.