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Climate change policy
- Sustainable Development Goal 13Sustainable Development Goal 13 exists because of a gap the world created with its own promises. When nations signed the 2015 Paris Agreement, they…
- Integrated assessment modellingIntegrated assessment modelling sits at the intersection of climate science, economics, energy systems, land use, agriculture, health, and governance.
- Open Coalition on Compliance Carbon MarketsThe United Nations Climate Conference 2025 COP30 in Belém, Brazil became the birthplace of a new global alliance. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stood…
- Climate change mitigationClimate change mitigation is the project of pulling humanity back from a trajectory it has already set in motion. Global greenhouse gas emissions averaged a…
- Emissions tradingEmissions trading is a method for controlling pollution that works through market forces rather than government mandates.
- Climate change adaptationClimate change adaptation is the work of surviving a world that is already shifting. As of 2022, global average temperatures sit 1.2 degrees Celsius above…
- Climate justiceClimate justice names something specific: the gap between who caused climate change and who suffers from it. A 2020 report by Oxfam and the Stockholm…
- Economic analysis of climate changeEconomic analysis of climate change asks a question that sounds simple but turns out to be extraordinarily difficult: what does warming actually cost us, and…
- Carbon dioxide removalCarbon dioxide removal, known by its initials CDR, sits at a peculiar crossroads: it is simultaneously one of the most promising tools in humanity's climate…
- Solar radiation modificationSolar radiation modification sits at one of the most contested frontiers in climate science. The basic premise is arresting in its simplicity: if Earth…
- Climate emergency declarationClimate emergency declarations began in a suburb of Melbourne. On the 5th of December 2016, Trent McCarthy, an Australian Greens Councillor at the City of…