Bioeconomy

Paddy farming below sea level – how traditional knowledge could save the future

Climate adaptation should not be approached with universal solutions. Designed primarily by and for affluent communities, the solutions considered best practice are often examples of “maladaptation,” causing more problems in the long term than the challenges they are trying to solve.

Latest Analysis

Culture

If we don’t know what nature is, how can we save it?

'A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir's Journey Through an Endangered Land' is a touching elegy for nature lost to consumerism, says Lauren Sneade.

Culture

Is climate dystopia inevitable? Reviewing ‘Half Earth Socialism’ by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass

Part utopian fiction, part political philosophy, and part climate policy analysis: Bertie Harrison-Broninski reviews the ambitious new work from Verso books.

Materials

Is wood good?

As timber becomes more widely-used in the construction industry, our assistant editor compares new timber materials to concrete and steel, asking the question 'is wood good?'

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Opinion

Opinion

What is the financial cost of loss and damage from climate change?

Even conservative estimates show the climate crisis has cost poor countries more than half a trillion dollars already - it is past time to define and fund loss and damage, say A. Karim Ahmed and Jeffrey D. Tamucci

By A. Karim Ahmed and Jeffrey D. Tamucci
12 June, 2022

Opinion

Food aid is not helping Africa’s struggle with climate change: what would?

Increased droughts, floods, and storms due to climate change are eroding African food security. New research shows that agricultural and cereal aid are not helping.

By Go Shimada
30 March, 2022

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Latest Podcast

Is there any hope for a green aviation industry?

Alasdair spoke Finlay Asher, founder of Safe Landing, about the reasons technological and market-based solutions to aviation emissions are not going to get us to net-zero, and what the sector should be doing instead.

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Press coverage of decarbonisation in the aviation industry needs to start talking about growth.

Yes, @easyJet aim to curb CO2 ... emissions by 35% *per km* by 2035.

Their CEO also recently boasted that "we carried seven times more customers [in Q3] than the same time last year".

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Climate campaigner ejected from Labour event sponsored by Drax power plant firm ... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/27/climate-campaigner-ejected-from-labour-event-sponsored-by-drax-power-plant-firm?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_b-gdnnews&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1664283070

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Climate protesters have been removed from a Labour fringe event sponsored by Drax, the UK's biggest source of C02 emissions and ... hosted by the New Statesman

Bioenergy explained

As the world begins to phase out coal power, some countries see biomass as its successor fuel – but is burning trees and plant matter really a renewable energy source?

With funding from the European Climate Foundation, ELCI hosts this hub to provide a definitive perspective on bioenergy – the science, the policy, and the big picture for the planet.

Bioenergy Campaign Highlight

Scientists to European Parliament: Fit for 55 package will cause deforestation and harm food security

Introduction to Bioenergy

What is Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage? The BECCS for power basics.

Introduction to Bioenergy

The Problem of Bioenergy in the EU

Bioenergy Campaign Update

UK: Joint NGO Statement on Biomass for Net Zero

Introduction to Bioenergy

Will bioenergy with carbon capture (BECCS) work?

Bioenergy Campaign Update

UK: Joint NGO Statement on BECCS

Bioenergy Campaign Highlight

Over 500 scientists to world leaders: do not burn trees for energy

Bioenergy Policy

What did the 2015 ‘Bioimpact Project’ say about burning wood in the EU?

Policymaking

What does Australia’s new Labor government mean for climate politics?

Bioeconomy

Can palm oil be ethical and sustainable in Indonesia?

Policymaking

Has environmental policy contributed to the crisis in Sri Lanka?

Culture