The world is making inadequate progress towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In November, climate institutes collaborated on the State of Climate Action report explaining that efforts to limit average global temperature increases are failing across almos... More »
While the EU carbon price recently broke the symbolic threshold of 100 euros per ton, China’s carbon market has been hovering at around seven euros per ton. This huge discrepancy creates an advantage for non-EU exporters as they don’t need to bear the high pri... More »
There is a growing awareness about the harmful effects of wildfire smoke and how those effects vary across socioeconomic groups. A new study by Berke et al. in Nature Human Behaviour suggests that differences in groups’ behavior, influenced by socioeconomic re... More »
Biodiversity, especially in marine and coastal ecosystems, is a core foundation for sustainable development and the source of livelihood for a large part of humanity. Currently, more than 3.5 billion people depend on the ocean as their primary food source, and... More »
Ran Cheng is an MPP candidate at the Harris School of Public Policy.China is indulging in coal again. It built 38.4GW of new coal-fired power installations in 2020, three times as much as the rest of the world. The expansion continued in 2021 and early 2022. G... More »
Dharrnesha Inbah Rajah is a MA in International Development and Public Policy candidate at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.Beyond witnessing one of the worst pandemics in modern times, 2020 was also the warmest year on record and saw h... More »
Renewable energy is increasingly popular as the urgency for climate action intensifies around the globe. Meanwhile, ongoing technological and economic challenges dominate the debate over the deployment of renewables, marginalizing the discussion of the geopoli... More »
Climate change poses a vast set of public policy challenges ranging from energy generation and resource extraction to food production and transportation. However, in the United States today, some policymakers and legislators regularly propagate misinformation ... More »
Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is one of the world’s most extensively researched ecological zones. In addition to its rich biodiversity and economic importance to Brazil, the Amazon is also one of the largest land-based sinks of atmospheric carbon in the world. A ... More »
The earth has warmed by 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century. This may seem insignificant to a layperson, but scientists and health experts agree that climate change poses a serious threat not only to the environment, but a... More »
As climate change increasingly threatens populations across the globe, indigenous communities relying on rain-fed agriculture are especially vulnerable. Yet governments and policymakers have developed and implemented climate change adaptation plans rooted almo... More »
As climate change has altered environments across the globe, it has caused mass migration. For example, an intense drought in Honduras recently led thousands of people to leave their homes and head north to Mexico for an opportunity to earn an agriculture-base... More »