This paper challenges the monolithic portrayal of the state as inherently ‘bad’ when it comes to implementation of Indigenous rights. Offering a compa…

By Adam Moe Fejerskov, Mikkel Funder and Nauja Kleist / part of our “Share your Decolonising Story” project Denmark has a new strategy for engaging with Africa. In this blog follow some reflections…

Case Studies to Inform the Board of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage: Ahead of the fifth meeting of the Board (B5) of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) which will take place...

This Special Section explores the plurality of professional practice in the environment and development sector, and centers the possibilities this offers for more transformative and just futures. We b...

We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering t…

On top of leaving the Paris Agreement, Trump is reviewing around $11 billion a year of funding for climate projects in developing countries

What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? To answer this question, the authors surveyed 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and found that trust in scientists is moderately high.

In this blog, Sister Agrippina Nandjaa (Caritas Namibia) marks the opening of the Humanitarian Observatory in Namibia, considering the importance of ‘neglected crises’ and their intersection with clim...

Crops have failed in several countries, with 27m people at risk of hunger according to World Food Programme

OPINION: The climate crisis is a massive problem, but when politicians fault it entirely for every disaster, attention is deflected from local measures that might build resiliency. That needs to chang...

The human quest for knowledge, and the descent into willful blindness

In this session, interdisciplinary scholar, speaker, and author Dr. Farhana Sultana will present the text “Decolonizing Climate Knowledge: Repairing Epistemic Injustice and Loss in the Era of Climate ...

discuss the environmental costs of machine learning and deep learning technologies.

Climate change adaptation is critically important for communities in the Global South, especially for those depending on climate-sensitive resources for their livelihoods, such as pastoralist commu...

The understanding of the political economy of energy transitions in lower-income African countries is little developed. A focus on coalitions has emer…

Special issue for Socio-Economic Review Guest Editors: Valentina Ausserladscheider, University of Vienna, (valentina.ausserladscheider@univie.ac.at), Timur Er

Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has...

The world’s top fossil-fuel producing nations are still planning to increase their output of oil, gas and coal far beyond what the world’s climate targets would allow, according to a new United Na...