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Daily Life
Your Climate Shadow
You can grow it without guilt.
Impacts
When El Niño Turns Up the Heat
El Niño is back – and this one's a whopper. What is it?
Economics
A Sign of Things to Come
Clean energy investment is pulling away from fossil fuels.
Governance
The Accountability Hierarchy
Targets should bring scrutiny. Credible action should bring recognition.
Political Economy
What Does Shipping Carry?
As fossil fuel demand falls, global shipping will have to change course.
Energy
The End, Not The Means
Electrification means getting a lot more of what we need from far less energy.
Energy
Energy In, Motion Out
EVs waste miles less energy than their fossil-fuelled counterparts.
Daily Life
Flying Above Its Weight
Why aviation’s climate impact flies above its emissions – and how to bring it down.
Political Economy
The Historical Ledger
Add up 170 years of emissions and some familiar names loom much larger.
Political Economy
Half the Problem
Half of annual carbon emissions can be traced to just 32 firms.
Daily Life
The Persuadable Majority
Progress on climate depends on speaking to the movable middle.
Solutions
Climbing the S-curve
The fastest gains are still to come – if the grid can keep up.
Science
Why Earth is reflecting less sunlight
And absorbing more of it.
Science
A Short History of Climate Science
Modern climate science is the product of two centuries of discovery.
Economics
Learning by Doing
How making more solar made it 99.9% cheaper.
Impacts
Loading the Heat Dice
The weather rolls the dice. Climate change loads them.
Daily Life
True at the Same Time
Three seemingly contradictory statements can all be true.
Solutions
In a League of Their Own
Building the world's biggest wind turbines is only half the game plan.
Science
A Matter of Degrees Not Thresholds
Climate change is a slope we slide down, not a cliff we fall off.
Governance
What Makes A Good Climate Law?
Durable progress on climate change depends on institutions more than politicians.
Governance
The World Spoke
The UN General Assembly backed the World Court’s landmark climate ruling by 141 votes to 8.
Energy
The Sun Has Won
Last year, solar outgrew the IEA's 2015 forecast by 1,800%.
Political Economy
'But what about China'
One system, two stories. Where the fossil-fuelled past meets the electrified future.
Political Economy
'But We’re Less Than 1%'
A consumption-based lens. The broader point still holds.
Political Economy
'But We’re Less Than 1%'
No country is too small to matter.
Political Economy
The New Energy Calculus
Pursuing clean energy is no longer just climate policy.
Science
It's fixable
Net zero isn’t a political slogan – it’s physics and chemistry.
Science
It's bad
Climate change destabilises societies built on stability. But the future has not been written.
Science
It's us
It's 'unequivocal' that human activity is driving global heating.
Science
It's real
Earth is heating at an extraordinary rate. We can see it in real time.
