Away from Cop27, Big Oil is dramatically expanding
The world’s oil and gas companies have invested $160bn into exploration from 2020-22.
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Climate crisis describes the heightened urgency of global warming and climate change and the impact they are having on the world. Drought, wildfires and habitat loss are becoming increasingly common; scientists and campaigners say only radical action can avert the worst effects. Read all of the New Statesman’s expert coverage on the climate crisis here.
Labour can win by telling a better story about climate action
The opposition must focus on economic resilience and stay out of “loss and damage” culture wars.
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Why we need to speak of climate crisis, not climate change
In this case, semantics do matter.
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The US and UK are falling short of their “fair share” of climate financing
Britain is contributing $1.4bn less than needed to offset its historical emissions.
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Why Rishi Sunak flip-flopped on Cop
Can the climate crisis summit achieve anything?
Surveillance, greenwashing and a hunger strike: welcome to Egypt’s Cop27
Can the authoritarian state, currently building a water-consuming desert capital, host a summit that achieves real change?
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UK cities must adapt to a changing climate
Faced with heatwaves and flooding, the UK needs to invest in resilient infrastructure alongside cutting its carbon emissions.
Walton Webson: For us, climate change is life and death
The chair of the Alliance of Small Island States on the climate finance needs of some of the world's smallest…
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Cop27 shows us that governments have short memories
The UK has failed time after time to live up to the climate pledges it made at Cop26.
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Why Cop27 has a confidence problem
This year's UN climate conference could be the most challenging yet.
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Greta Thunberg on why Cop27 is a “scam”
The activist calls out politicians who use the UN climate process for their own ends.
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Generation Greta: the school strike that went global
The youth movement Fridays for Future has grown into an international force for change. Here, seven activists share their views…
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“I haven’t met a politician ready to do what it takes”: Greta Thunberg and Björk in conversation
The world’s leading voice for climate action and its most original singer-songwriter discuss greenwashing, fame, Cop27, music and the matriarchy.
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Mining giants’ profits are booming
How can we redirect wealth to the frontline of extraction?
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The Tories’ war on solar is an act of self-destruction
Liz Truss labels the opposition the “anti-growth coalition” but is trying to strangle one of the few private sector success…
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Why King Charles must speak at Cop27
In making the monarchy part of her ideological battleground, Liz Truss is exposing her own shaky constitutional position.
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It is right to question the existence of the Crown – yet on the environment the King’s voice may be crucial
Right-wing ministers with a record of hostility to “green crap” can’t be trusted, while Charles was early to recognise the…
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Five reasons Jacob Rees-Mogg is unfit to tackle the climate emergency
The new Business Secretary has a history of climate change denial and “delayism”.
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Climate catastrophes in other countries impact us all
As Pakistan experiences devastating floods, the UK must ask itself how it can help developing nations.
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Europe’s worst drought on record needs to trigger a flood of climate action
We should consider this a warning.
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