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America Knows Better: Addressing Climate Change Is Good Business
President-elect Donald Trump made claims of his own business smarts a cornerstone of his campaign. Vote for him, the logic went, and send a first-rate businessman to the Oval Office to apply business...
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Will Shareholders Get Money’s Worth As Oil Giants Link Executive Pay to...
Money talks. That’s why one key element in the battle against climate change must be aligning the financial compensation of executives to tangible corporate efforts to decarbonize. Better aligning...
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Eleven Cities Showing What Bold Climate Action Looks Like [PHOTOS]
Eleven cities from around the world were celebrated recently in Mexico City at the C40 Cities Awards for their commitment to innovation in the fight against climate change. The eleven-year-old C40...
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WWF Climate Savers Program: Business Can Lead on Climate Action
A roadmap and a call to action. WWF launched the Climate Savers Program in 1999 as a platform for corporate leadership in climate action. Partnering with leading companies within their sectors,...
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Why Is Big Oil Backing The Paris Climate Agreement?
Joining the ranks of former Exxon CEO, and now Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, the chief executive of another big U.S. energy company, ConocoPhillips, is saying that the U.S. should stay in the...
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Climate Politics: Environmentalists Need to Think Globally, But Act Locally
As President Trump pivots from a failed attempt to overhaul health care to new orders rolling back controls on carbon pollution, environmentalists are preparing for an intense fight. We study...
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Transparency Is a Key Ingredient for City Climate Action
When it comes to addressing climate issues, cities receive a lot of attention. It’s not hard to understand why, as mayors in the U.S. and across the globe are doubling down on local environmental...
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UK Emissions Reduction: Halfway There
The UK has made excellent progress on reducing emissions. But the hard part is yet to come. The UK’s Climate Change Act (2008) established a legally binding obligation to reduce UK emissions by at...
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Climate Savers: Companies Build a Framework for Progress
A roadmap and a call to action: WWF launched the Climate Savers Program in 1999 as a platform for corporate leadership in climate action. Partnering with leading companies within their sectors,...
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A Revolution: The Netherlands Kisses Gas Goodbye, But Will It Help the Climate?
Will the gas-fired condensed boiler disappear in the Netherlands? Revolution in gas country the Netherlands: the Dutch government wants all residential buildings to be off gas in 2050. The objective...
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Cities Can Jump-Start Climate Progress by Plugging in Their Vehicles
President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the Paris climate agreement reaffirmed what was already clear: The federal government is no longer leading American efforts to shrink our carbon footprint....
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Community Solar: Lots of Buzz, but Where’s the Action?
What is it? Recent years have seen an increase in community solar and shared renewable policies. So far, 14 states and the District of Columbia have enacted such policies with additional utilities...
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The Dangerous Game of Climate Roulette
On Thursday twenty daily temperature records were set across British Columbia (BC) as highs reached over 39oC in some areas of the province. Simultaneously and consequently 230 wildfires broke out and...
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The Costly Lessons of Climate Change
The writer Upton Sinclair may have taught the world’s first climate lesson when he commented, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding...
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The Carbon-Capture Dream is Dying
Engie coal plant, Rotterdam The collapse of a Dutch “clean coal” power project has ended near-term prospects for carbon capture and storage (CCS) in European power generation. That leaves proponents...
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Curbing Climate Change: Why It’s So Hard to Act in Time
This summer I worked on the Greenland ice sheet, part of a scientific experiment to study surface melting and its contribution to Greenland’s accelerating ice losses. By virtue of its size, elevation...
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For Climate Progress, Solutions Sprout from Cities, States
At this past summer’s meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), I served on a panel of experts discussing what might happen to America’s efforts to reduce...
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Defying Trump, Pentagon Moves To Protect Bases From Climate Change
The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to protect its bases and operations from rising seas and other impacts of climate change, despite an order by President Trump to halt climate planning. On...
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Why Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Won’t Lead to Action on Climate Change
It’s not easy to hold the nation’s attention for long, but three solid weeks of record-smashing hurricanes directly affecting multiple states and at least 20 million people will do it. Clustered...
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Beyond Harvey and Irma: Climate Action Will Become Top Military Priority
The devastating hurricanes Harvey and Irma saw the U.S. military involved in emergency operations on a massive scale, writes energy expert and author Michael T. Klare. The future will hold more of the...
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An Inconvenient Reality: Nuclear Power is Needed to Achieve Climate Goals
On a quiet Wednesday afternoon, I decided to go and see Al Gore’s update on climate change, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”. While certainly a powerful update on the importance of climate...
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Paris Agreement: Building a Transition Into Article 6
It would seem that transitions are all important at the moment and while many may be focussed on the latest ideas for Brexit, I am actually talking about Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. At the...
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Does Opening the Northern Sea Route Give Russia a Vested Interest in Not...
Icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov in Arctic Waters along the NSR. Photograph by: TheBrockenInaGlory, distributed under CC-BY 3.0. The Russian Federation is driving the development of the Northern Sea...
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Energy Secretary Perry’s Electric Resiliency Rule Could Be a Big Win for...
Recently, Energy Secretary Rick Perry proposed that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issue a rule requiring payments to nuclear and coal power plants to maintain a resilient electrical...
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Puerto Rico a Tragic Reminder of Why Climate Action Cannot Wait
Source: FEMA The disaster unfolding in Puerto Rico is heartbreaking – and a call for action. Our focus as a nation must be to help our fellow citizens as quickly as possible, but also to do what we...
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The Two Clean Energy Bills That Could Take California’s Climate Action to the...
Lawmakers recently addressed many critical issues for California: the housing shortage, parks bond, and early on in this year’s legislative session, climate change. We urge Governor Brown to sign the...
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Poll Shows Majority Of Americans Want Government To Act On Climate Change,...
New polling data provides some inspiring news about the prospects for climate change action in the United States. According to public policy polling conducted by AP–NORC and the Energy Policy...
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How Cities Can Fight Climate Change Most Effectively
Researchers looked at 11 metro areas — including Atlanta, Georgia, pictured — to examine how much local emissions-reductions programs can help combat climate change. They found that there is likely to...
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It’s Now, It’s Us, It’s Not Over: The Top 7 Takeaways from the New Climate...
Earth as seen from a NOAA weather satellite. Photo: NASA The U.S. government recently released the Climate Science Special Report (CSSR) – the work of fifty climate science experts who compiled and...
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Helping Mexico Design an Effective Climate Policy
Photo: German Development Institute/Flickr As nations gathered in Bonn, Germany, for this year’s UN climate summit, one item on their agenda was determining whether pledged climate efforts are...
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How American Cities and States Are Fighting Climate Change Globally
Since the Trump administration announced last June its intended withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, attention — and hope — has turned to America’s cities and states. Many local and regional...
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The Climate Solution No One in Davos Will Be Talking About
Economists say a global carbon tax would efficiently shift the world to safer energy production. So why is it barely mentioned, ask Ian Lefond and Timmons Roberts of Brown University? Article courtesy...
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Even With Climate Change, You Catch More Flies with Honey
The proverb; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar, first appeared in the United States in “Poor Richard’s Almanac” in 1744. As Benjamin Franklin noted, “tart words make...
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How Even the “Dirtiest” of Industries Can Help Fight Climate Change
Across the length and breadth of Europe are scattered some 500,000 operational and inactive landfills, each containing mountains of trash – and as much as 18 million tons of raw materials. Since 1953,...
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Trudeau’s India Visit: Cooperating on Climate Action Will Boost Other Agendas
The agenda for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to India this week includes trade, education, infrastructure and skill development. Climate change action could boost collaboration in...
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Poorest Households Hit Hardest by UK Climate Change Levy Despite Using Least...
A levy added to UK household energy bills to help the country meet its climate targets hits the poorest households hardest, write John Barrett and Anna Owen of the University of Leeds. Climate...
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Changes to Focus on Clean Energy: Tougher Than It Looks
Science has told us that we must reduce carbon emissions if climate change is to be kept below acceptable limits. The transition has led us in many new directions. Most politicians outside the US...
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EU Leaders Order Long-Term Climate Strategy by Early 2019
EU Council Meeting, March 2018 EU leaders have directed the European Commission to produce an update of its long-term climate strategy “by the first quarter of 2019”, writes Megan Darby, deputy editor...
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How 3 Local Innovation Labs Are Helping Drive a Global Energy Transition
Last December, The Climate Group published three briefings revealing the findings from its Innovation Labs as part of the Energy Transition Platform, an initiative which supports state and regional...
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‘We’re Talking Very Big Bucks’: New Bill Could Put Oil Companies on the Hook...
A raging wildfire consumes the forest next to Highway 63 twenty four kilometres south of Fort McMurray Saturday, May 7, 2016. The “Beast”, as it was called by Wood Buffalo fire chief Darby Allen, is a...
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Shipping to Halve Carbon Footprint by 2050 Under First Sector-Wide Climate...
Global shipping must at least halve its emissions by 2050, according to an international deal adopted on Friday. Reaching an agreement on how to achieve this goal will be difficult as countries...
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Climate Change Optimism: Five Years of Change
The past five years have given many reasons for optimism about climate change. I have now been writing this blog for just over five years, and it seems timely to step back and look at how the climate...
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Trial Date Set for Groundbreaking Kids’ Climate Lawsuit
A trial date of Oct. 29 has been set for a landmark climate change lawsuit brought by a group of young Americans despite the Trump administration’s efforts to halt the case. Juliana v. United States...
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Carbon Taxes Could Make Significant Dent in Climate Change, Study Finds
Putting a price on carbon, in the form of a fee or tax on the producers of fossil fuels, can be an effective way to curb emissions of greenhouse gases. Putting a price on carbon, in the form of a fee...
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Carbon Markets, Waterbeds, and You
Can reducing your carbon footprint make any difference when you’re carbon capped? My friend is fixing up her kitchen on a budget. She’s a think-global-act-local type. She’s concerned about climate...
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It’s Up to Us to Protect the Clean Power Plan
This week is a crucial moment for climate progress. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is moving ahead in his efforts to revoke the Clean Power Plan, one of our most important efforts to tackle the climate...
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At UN Talks, Rich World Faces Questions on Who Will Replace U.S. Climate Cash
The rich world has a question to answer, according the chair of a powerful bloc of developing countries: what are they going to do about the cash promises reneged on by Donald Trump’s U.S.? The...
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We Examined 885 European Cities’ Plans to Tackle Climate Change – Here’s What...
Helsinki – the city has joined-up mitigation and adaptation plans. Cities are taking climate change threats seriously but more could be done according to a new study looking at the climate plans of...
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A New Narrative in Climate Talks: Cutting Emissions with Both Arms of the...
The sound of one hand clapping? The cut with one arm of the scissors? Both metaphors are useful when thinking about what climate leadership means. In order to align national policies with the Paris...
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11 Ways the Paris Climate Deal is Working in the Real World
Jadav Payeng, who has almost single-handedly grown a 550 hectare forest in India. As climate talks stall, it’s clear the UN process is no longer the major driving force of the climate transition,...
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