New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis More than 450,000 people are projected to die from the additional heat brought by the super El Niño in the next six months, according to estimates by climate scientists. The toll is on top of the early deaths resulting from temperatures already driven up by the climate crisis. It will strike across the globe, from Indonesia to India, and Nigeria to the US. Many further deaths are expected from the droughts, wildfires and flooding that El Niños bring. Continue reading...

Aviation is on track to be responsible for 80% of the UK’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC).

“Idyllischer Gartenzwergkapitalismus”: A Distinct Ordoliberal Environmental Framework?

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Plans to remove submerged rocks from river near town of Kaub have failed to materialise since 1992

Dutch growth is set to be almost entirely wiped out, and France could be pushed into a contraction.

Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests

Deloitte review of annual reports shows a tripling in the number of companies forced to revise calculations

‘Intense and highly unpredictable’ blaze forces more than 40,000 people to flee popular holiday spot

The closure of Investors for Paris Compliance has prompted renewed debate about whether investor pressure on climate ever really mattered.  Critics argue that shareholder resolutions rarely...

Crises and catastrophes, disruptions and disasters, tipping points and turns: this array of terms ignites both the literary and the historical imagination. Today, these terms largely cluster around th...

The conventional narrative in international development holds that poorer countries are “catching up” with richer countries through the process of capitalist growth. This paper assesses this claim ...

European Commission proposal to overhaul emissions trading system would give companies less demanding pathway to reductions

A “Limitless Frontier”? Neoliberalism, Silicon Valley, and the Commercialization of Space

Green finance, once heralded as a pragmatic tool for aligning capitalism with climate action, is now accused of being ‘woke’. While the social sciences have been strong on the critique of market-ba...

Belgian Foreign Minister, Maxime Prévot announced on Monday that he preparing the formal recognition of Palestine as a state.

Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial

Danish pension fund Akademikerpension said on Friday it had placed SpaceX on ​its portfolio exclusion list ahead of ‌the company's initial public offering, citing concerns about the governance structu...

Prudently Heating the Planet: Tracing the Legal Logic Bolstering Fossil-Fuel Investments

Prudently Heating the Planet: Tracing the Legal Logic Bolstering Fossil-Fuel Investments