Clearing Skies: Opening a New Path on Climate and the Future
Of the many climate struggles going on today, the great one, played out in hundreds of arenas around the world, is the struggle to rein in and then halt the…
Climate Policy
Mind the Gaps: How the UN Climate Plan Fails to Follow the Science
Climate negotiators meeting in Dubai last month pledged to chart a course for stabilizing the climate system using good science. But many scientists say these promises are at best ill-defined…
A Key Court Ruling Could Weaken U.S. Environmental Protections
ANALYSIS The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on whether to overturn the Chevron doctrine, a landmark precedent that has stood for 40 years. Scrapping the doctrine could…
In a Major Reversal, the World Bank Is Backing Mega Dams
After a decade of declining to finance large hydroelectric dams, the World Bank is getting back into the business in a big way. Throughout the last half of the 20th…
How China Became the World’s Leader on Renewable Energy
Last November, Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua and U.S. climate envoy John Kerry shook hands on a pledge to triple renewable energy globally by 2030. It was hailed as a…