Climate Change

On Friday’s episode of “Real Time,” Bill Maher used the “New Rules” segment of his show to bring up a thing he’s complained about before: So-called “Cancel Culture.” Though the bit was a familiar litany of concerns people familiar with the whole thing will recognize, Maher did at least begin…

The world is falling short of its emissions reduction goals and stronger climate action is urgently needed, the United Nations' climate arm has warned. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has reviewed emissions reduction plans from 75 members. Combined, they are on a path to reduce emissions by…

It was Selina Sanchez-Cristobal’s day off, but she picked up the phone anyway. It was 2019, and she was the only employee running a 24-hour hotline for migrants who became lost crossing from Mexico to Texas; the calls rarely stopped. On the line was Danny, a Honduran man in his…

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When it comes to the environment, few countries rival Costa Rica in terms of action and ambition. The tiny Central American nation is aiming for total decarbonization by 2050, not just…

The $1.9 trillion recovery package set to go to a vote in the coming weeks won’t include automatic stabilizers. A perennially popular policy among left-of-center wonks and the public, automatic stabilizers can refer to any program that’s there when you need it. Unemployment insurance is an automatic stabilizer: Since it’s…

written by Amy Taylor-Kabbaz ,February 25, 2021 Image: Zbynek Burival | Unsplash Australian entrepreneur Katerina Kimmorley’s pioneering work has made a significant difference to global poverty and climate change. We speak to her about providing solar lighting to slum communities across India and Nepal, how Australia can become a clean…

(San Diego Union Tribune) Acclaimed composer and UC San Diego professor Lei Liang, whose work boldly fuses Eastern and Western traditions, has been selected as a 2021 winner of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Music Awards. There are 18 recipients of this year’s awards in music, which total $225,000.…

The Centre’s three farm laws were aimed at making India’s farm sector flexible to deal with uncertain future events such as climate change and changing consumer behaviour, according to Sanjeev Sanyal, principal economic adviser at the finance ministry. The farmer protests are unlikely to dent the economy or have any…

In future, we have to think if hydropower can compete with solar-plus-storage, says energy expert Arunabha Ghosh Arunabha Ghosh, founder-CEO, Council on Energy Environment and Water (CEEW), in an interview said that India needs to proactively negotiate a bilateral climate agreement with the United States and hill states like Uttarakhand…

President Biden hosted his first bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday, where the pair pledged to strengthen their partnership and to address the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and a middle-class economic recovery. Biden said the U.S. and Canada "doubled down" on efforts to fight climate change. "Now that…