Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and cohost of the “Pitchfork Economics” podcast. In a recent episode, he spoke with two professors at the Institute of New Economics at Oxford University. There are many flaws in the way we discuss the problems of, and solutions to, climate change. For decades, our conversation about …
The speeding up of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) could have wide-ranging consequences across the globe. The only ocean current that circumnavigates Earth is getting stronger and faster due to climate change, according to researchers at the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. In a paper published in the journal Nature Climate …
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As the dust settles on the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, health professionals are finally feeling acknowledged by the global climate community. More than 100 doctors and nurses traveled to Glasgow earlier this month with a message for world leaders: Global warming is a leading threat to public health. And curbing planet-warming emissions …
COP26 finally framed climate change as a public health issue, experts say Read More »
Picture Credits: At the United Nations climate conference, hundreds of members of the tourism industry made a commitment toward a plan to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030 and reach “net zero” by 2050.Credit…Yves Herman/Reuters More than 300 travel companies, tourism boards and countries have signed the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism, the …
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Picture Credit: Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As we leave COP 26 behind, we see both progress against climate change and frustration about the strength and likely effectiveness of the agreement reached. Over the past two decades, climate change has moved from the fringe to the center of the political agenda in many nations. That is …
Technology, not treaties, will reduce global warming Read More »
