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Carbon & Climate
COP30 must do good, not just avoid harm
As the host of this year's UN Climate Change Conference, Brazil seeks to make COP30 the “COP of implementation.” Translating commitments into robust action should include providing indigenous peoples with direct access to predictable and sustainable finance, and treating them as equal partners, rather than as beneficiaries.
Carbon & Climate
How to measure climate progress
Ending reliance on oil, coal, and gas, and embracing technologies that will only improve and become cheaper over time, is not just smart climate policy. It is the best way to improve economic competitiveness and human prosperity for decades to come.
Carbon & Climate
From Rio to Belém: The long unravelling of climate consensus
Three decades after the optimism of the 1992 Earth Summit, the climate regime faces a tough test. The retreat of multilateralism and the rules-based international order has left COP30 struggling to hold together the fading promise of global action.
Food & Agriculture
India’s farm policies behind bad air, unhealthy diet, water crisis
Law and policy measures that prioritise sustainable agriculture are needed to address India’s environmental challenges.
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AI wants our water
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The climate crisis is fuelling extreme fires across the planet
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What a China-EU climate deal could do for the world
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Why the climate crisis must reshape how we think about war
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Can Europe and China forge a climate connection?
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How green industrial policies are advancing in the Asia-Pacific
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The Global South must claim the climate mantle at COP30
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Food & Agriculture
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