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US manufacturers offshore pollution to developing countries
Firms found to be improving their own environmental performance by moving more-polluting activities overseas, where regulations are more lax
Acts of God: why secular climate projects fail in the Pacific
For communities in many poorer countries, including in the Pacific Islands, the most influential messages engage with people’s spiritual beliefs and involve religious leaders
Ocean acidification is global warming’s forgotten crisis
We have the tools to barricade ecosystems against some impacts of warmer, more acidic oceans. But do we have the political will to use them?
Pacific islands are on a collision course with the shipping industry
The shipping industry could undermine global climate efforts. But Pacific islands and EU nations are joining together to force them to change.
The US is no longer worthy of the Paris agreement
The Paris agreement is a club for countries who are part of a global effort to tackle dangerous climate change. The US no longer meets these admission criteria.
It’s time for honesty about climate uncertainty
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens is right to embrace uncertainty, but not as an argument for inaction on climate change
China’s plan to cut shipping emissions
With pollution from shipping killing 18,000 Chinese every year, the government is cracking down on the use of dangerous fuels in port
Decommission North Sea oil rigs? Here’s a better idea
Rather than waste vast amounts of taxpayer money pulling defunct rigs from the sea, why not spend it on something useful?
After floods, Peru has an opportunity to rebuild smarter
Facing an enormous clean-up job, Peru must think about a future where flood like those in March become ever more common
Indian court awards legal rights of a person to entire ecosystem
An Indian state has awarded full legal status to an entire ecosystem. But can such a right be protected?
Have Chinese CO2 emissions really peaked?
We are really bad at predicting Chinese emissions. Why do we think we know what happens next?
Prince Charles’ Ladybird book is a climate communications masterpiece
With strong sales and positive coverage in the rightwing press, the prince’s children’s book has found a way to speak across the divided politics of climate change
Trump’s ban: ‘I want to study in US to save my country from climate change’
The only way to defend Sudan against the conflict and starvation of climate change is through education. Trump’s ban cuts us off from that, writes Lina Yassin
We already have a magic technology that sucks up carbon
Why have emissions plans that rely on removing carbon from the air with unproven technologies when forests can do it today?
How the G20 could save Paris climate deal from Trump
Donald Trump appears bent on unpicking the globalist cooperation that made a climate change accord possible. Can the world’s other powers band together to stop him?
What a great time to be a climate journalist
As he hands the secret Climate Home editor codes and knackered laptop to Karl Mathiesen, Ed King reflects on the five years since he launched the site
Green groups don’t get conservatives – it’s time this changed
Conservatives are committed to science-based public policy on the environment, but for too long their voice has been ignored by civil society
6 takeaways from the 2017 EU state of the energy union
Brussels bids for climate leadership as US backs out, but stocktake shows clean energy momentum slowing and a carbon lock-in risk from gas pipelines
Memo to Donald: green growth is the deal of the century
Mitigating and adapting to climate change globally represents an incredible investment opportunity – Trump should get with the programme
Diplomatic blowback of US climate retreat may hurt Trump
The last time a US administration quit a UN climate deal was in 2000, and George W Bush’s team described the angry response from capitals as a ‘sobering experience’