Climate Change
Climate Change Crisis: Earth Might Already Be Beyond 1.5 Degrees Celsius
Global temperatures have already exceeded 1.5°C warming and may pass 2°C later this decade, according to a world-first study I led. The worrying findings, based on temperature records contained in sea sponge...
Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Importance of the State
Climate change, like nuclear weapons, is routinely described as a “global” threat that has transformed our world into a “global village” in which no state is secure unless a cosmopolitan...
Climate Change Is Harming Both Global Security and Human Dignity
Fazila, a midwife from Sindh Province, Pakistan, told the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) that she knew exactly how to prepare for the 2022 monsoon...
Rethinking International Financial Infrastructure
As the world looks towards COP28, the imperative to tackle the climate crisis is more pressing than ever before in its history. With pre-COP negotiations bringing to light many differences...
Taiwan Can Help the World Tackle Climate Change
Climate change is the most significant global challenge of our time. The implications of our rapidly warming world are as grave as they are far-reaching. Already, climate change is affecting...
Kazakhstan’s Lessons for the Climate Transition
As the world turns its attention to the upcoming COP28 in Dubai, a pivotal narrative unfolds in Central Asia, particularly in Kazakhstan, where the fight against climate change is not...
Climate Crackup: Why the COP27 Summit Failed
Just before he left for the United Nations COP27 climate conference in Egypt, President Joe Biden tweeted: “The global leaders of the COP27 must reach out and take the future...
The ‘Pivot to Asia’ Should Include Climate Action
As COP27 concluded in Egypt last week, world leaders finally agreed to establish “loss and damage” funding for vulnerable countries hit by devastating natural disasters brought on by climate change....
Autocrats Can’t Be Trusted on Climate Change
The COP27 climate conference drew to a close this week on much the same lines as the previous meeting: calling on the world’s richest polluting nations to cover the costs...
UN Chief: World Is on the ‘Highway to Climate Hell’
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a stark warning at the COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Monday, contending that the lack of progress on climate change...
Indonesia Is Ready to Lead the Fight Against Climate Change
Few countries take the threat of climate change as seriously as Indonesia. The fourth most-populous country on the planet has over 94 million hectares of forest—over half of the country’s...
Can We Align Third World Development with Net Zero?
IN THE past decade, emissions from the developing world have eclipsed those of the West. China, still considered a developing nation, now pumps more CO2 into the atmosphere than the...