Category: Policy Notebook
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Living on a Living World
Earth is a living world. When we talk about “the planet”, we are not talking about some marginal part of human existence that interests scientists and climate advocates. We are talking about everything human beings depend on and aspire to.…
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Bold climate cooperation can emerge from 2nd week of Bonn talks
Bold climate cooperation can emerge from the second week of the SB62 round of negotiations in Bonn… if countries choose to favor action, investment, and transformation, over further debate and delay. Today, we emerge from the midway point into week…
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Crunch time for a livable climate future
It’s crunch time for our climate future. We are living through a worsening storm of hard impacts, and all of the ways forward are rocky. We are more than 30 years on from the historic global agreement to prevent dangerous…
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Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement can be an engine for food security
Global food supplies are under threat. Worsening climate impacts in food-producing regions, overconsumption, and badly managed food waste and loss, have combined to reduce global grain stocks, and make food less affordable. Since the COVID pandemic began in early 2020,…
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People-centered carbon pricing is a shortcut to a better future
We are living through the early stages of climate emergency. Emissions are still rising, global heating is getting worse, and droughts, fires, storms, and floods, are intensifying. Massive wildfires are burning in Siberia, and it is estimated that worldwide, wildfires…