Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left even more missing.

Recent debates in global health, including reproductive health, have embraced an attractive proposition: as donor assistance contracts, countries in the Global South might finally define their own…

Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

The war in Iran has sent oil prices skyrocketing. Daniela Gabor and Benjamin Braun argue the ripple effects and states (non)responses to the crisis represent a

There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmental...

Despite the significant environmental and social concerns associated with deep-sea mining, the International Seabed Authority (ISA)—the organization tasked with governing the international seabed—i...

UK foreign aid helped to develop Chinese fossil fuel extraction in a region where the oil sector is associated with forced labour risks, a new investigation has found.

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Legacy emissions, climate colonialism, and climate apartheid are central themes in contemporary discussions surrounding climate action in Africa. Nevertheless, there exists a scarcity of research f...