Is climate anxiety ruining my friendships?
It is vital to speak up about climate change, but hard to know where to draw the line.
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The vast majority of scientists agree that human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels that release greenhouse gases, are now the main driving force behind climate change, which is raising global temperatures and affecting weather patterns. Here you can find the New Statesman’s expert coverage on climate change as well as our analysis on activism, climate justice and the overall crisis.
How close are we to truly zero carbon renewable energy?
Simply moving to renewables does not guarantee “net zero”.
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How are animals adapting to climate change?
Books by Thor Hanson and Emma Marris offer fascinating insights into how species are surviving and what we must do…
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The man who lives on rubbish
Dumpster-diving with Patrick O’Hare, the anthropologist fighting for our right to what people throw away.
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Sunak and Truss are wrong, Tory members want climate action
The leadership candidates have let their voters down by failing to take global warming seriously.
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Senate Democrats offer sign of political life
After secret negotiations Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin have unveiled their Inflation Reduction Act.
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The Policy Ask with Silviya Barrett: “Cutting public transport fares would help with high living costs”
The director of policy, research and projects at the Campaign for Better Transport on why we need to change travel…
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Pascal Lamy on the climate crisis: “We have to go way back to find a global picture as depressing as today”
Cop27 in Egypt must focus on bespoke solutions for the host continent, says the former WTO head.
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Letter of the week: Creating climate resilience
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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What policymakers get wrong about health and the climate
Politicians continue to turn a blind eye to the links between climate change and public health.
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How Putin’s aggression has nurtured Germany’s climate ambitions
A year ago Germany suffered terrible floods and the new government pledged climate action. It has not wavered.
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Fuel price protests can’t just avoid the climate question
Protest groups Fair Fuel and Just Stop Oil have very different solutions to the petrol crisis. Only one is fit…
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Big Oil v the World: an unmissable series about climate change and corruption
This is the kind of journalism that has you lying wide awake at 3am, your thoughts doom-spiralling like a fairground…
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Deregulation will worsen the climate crisis – and Boris Johnson knows it
Johnson’s urging of his successor to scrap rules protecting the planet in his last PMQs was irresponsible and immature.
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“Brexit is the biggest act of self-harm a nation could take”: the CEO of Velux
David Briggs on why sustainability and the EU make good business sense.
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Homeless communities need help surviving heatwaves
People without homes are more likely to die due to the summer heat than the winter cold.
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As the Tory leadership candidates obsess over tax cuts, the real monsters are tapping at the window
The climate emergency can no longer be dismissed by politicians – even if some voters don’t regard it as a…
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Leader: A planet on fire
The national and international political response to the climate crisis is both tragic and farcical.
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40°C and wildfires in London. What happens next?
Humanity is at a dangerous juncture. Are we capable of real change?
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How deadly could heatwaves in Europe get?
Over the past 40 years, more than 90,000 people have died during heatwaves across the continent and the UK.
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