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How do we address the climate crisis, preserve biodiversity and recover from the pandemic? If a frog is put into hot water, it jumps straight out. However, if the water is at room temperature and then heated, the frog settles and relaxes, becoming so comfortable that it does not react, even at…

Five years after the Paris Agreement was reached, the need for global action on climate change is clearer than ever. Calls for mitigation and a green economic recovery continue to catch headlines, even if in the margins of the COVID-19 newsreel. Yet the natural corollary, climate adaptation,…

After the COVID-19 pandemic we can do better than simply return to business as usual It’s a cruel and twisted enemy that claims not only people’s lives and livelihoods but makes us each a danger to our loved ones. Attacking societies at their core, coronavirus is the greatest test we have faced…

COVID-19 has made the case for taking better care of the home we share Like many others, I began 2020 with high hopes. This was meant to be a year that would yield desperately-needed accords about biodiversity, oceans, and climate change, propelled by increasing awareness about the value of…

Pairing action on the pandemic and on climate change will ensure that economies end up stronger than before Fifty years ago today, protecting the environment became a mass movement when 20 million Americans took to the streets in hundreds of cities around the country to mark the first Earth Day.…

The burning of fossil fuels for energy is the largest single source of global greenhouse gas emissions. So, any effort to mitigate climate change must involve energy efficient strategies. After all, the easiest and cheapest clean energy solution lies in the energy that we don’t use. When it comes…

Investing in trees and forests combats global warming and provides good financial returns. The best way to tackle climate change may come naturally. For years, solutions have focused on clean energy technology, including electrifying transport and driving down the cost of wind and solar power. But…

The nature loss and climate change crises are fundamentally interlinked. Hundreds of companies are committed to reducing their emissions. Today, a growing number of firms want to broaden this to reduce their impact on the natural world. The Science Based Targets Network aims to help firms…

Business and governments cooperating and working together will build a prosperous, green economy The 2020s must be the climate decade. We need rapidly to identify what every government and every business can do to help us get to zero-carbon.  Three is the magic number. If we achieve a 3 percent…

The circular economy could be a $4.5 trillion business opportunity. Only 9% of the global economy is circular at present. The Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy is helping to speed this transition. As policy-makers worldwide respond to a rising tide of climate activism and extreme…