Category Archives: Global warming

How ‘Big Oil’ Works the System and Keeps Winning

Oil and gas interests have refined their techniques to stay a step ahead over decades. Don’t look for those plans to stop anytime soon.

Extreme Weather and Pandemic Help Drive Global Food Prices to 46-Year High

Crop shortages are a big contritucor to high food prices, and the fundamentals aren’t likely to revert to the old normal.

Climate Change: Adapt for the Future, Not the Past

Climate adaptation in the global South needs to be addressed through development. Moving from de-risking to diversification requires a developmental state committed to ‘green’ industrial policy – involving investment and technology.

Gravel or Green: What Will Become of Alaska’s Coastal Plain?

Oil companies and regulators must bolster nascent efforts to repair the damage that has already been done.

Just Say No: IKEA to Phase Out Plastic Packaging By 2028

IKEA pledges to phase out plastics packaging; federal and state lawmakers should impose a similar bank on all U.S. companies

The US Biofuel Mandate Helps Farmers, but Does Little for Energy Security and Harms the Environment

Why biofuel is a scam, except perhaps as a subsidy to Big Ag.

Profiting from the Carbon Offset Distraction

Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit as financial intermediaries profit and undermine efforts to cut greenhouse gasses.

Finance Group Fails To Deliver at COP26

Finance, which some see as uniquely positioned to save the planet, has already bankrolled 1.5֯ C of warming.

Fifty Coral Reefs Selected as ‘Arks’ to Survive Climate Crisis

Australian scientists employ modern portfolio theory to target conservation priorities and generate a list of fifty priority coral reefs.

‘We Are Fighting Back’: Global Black Friday Strikes and Protests Seek to #MakeAmazonPay

Workers around the world held Make Amazon Pay protests to obtain fair wages, end Amazon’s tax avoidance, and lower its impact on the planet

Climate Injustice at Glasgow Cop-Out

How the largely optical, pro-business gestures at addressing climate change were an affront to developing countries.

Goodbye Glasgow: What’s Next for Global Climate Action?

After COP26, and as the debate on whether Glasgow represents a success or a failure dies down, what next for global climate action?

Apple Reverses Course on Right to Repair iPhones: More Concessions to Follow?

Apple announces a Self Service Repair program for iPhones 12 and 13, with broader company right to repair concessions expected to follow.

COP26: Climate Pledges Don’t Match Up With Policies—or Consumer Behavior

The ink is barely dry on COP26 pledges, and it’s not hard to see that they are largely for show.