Paul Gilding
With the global economy and ecosystem now both burdened by unmanageable debt, effective global default is only a matter of time. Are you ready?
China sums up the paradox of the global economy: that you can't have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources. But while China is facing this problem, when will we?
Having missed the window to prevent the onset of global warming, change is going to start coming thick and fast. But if we can rise to meet the challenge, we just might end up better off.
Some argue that the middle of a crisis is not the time to draw the connection to climate change and the threat it poses. But the opposite is true – it is just the right time.
Through their desperate efforts to ward off a 'big government' response to climate change, free marketeers have more or less delivered a situation where nothing else will work.
What's going on when the IEA chooses to prick the coal bubble by predicting demand will peak by 2020 and drop to 2003 levels by 2035? And what does it mean for industry and investors?
A top former Goldman Sachs analyst last week added his voice to those warning about unpriced carbon risk. But there's more to low-carbon investment than just risk.
What if the world's financial markets move before governments and business by pricing in carbon risk? And what if they do so more quickly and more dramatically than anyone expects?
It’s hard to argue that action on climate change will be bad for Australia's economy when the most successful participants in that economy disagree.
The thorny problem of trying to decouple environmental sustainability from economic growth is set to resurface and when it does, tackling climate change will seem like a walk in the park.
Do you believe in the science of climate change? According to Paul Gilding, there's one very simple reason why you shouldn't.
Having diligently avoided the issue of climate change during the campaign, the major parties now find themselves in a position where they have little choice but to face it head on.
The idea that climate change will fuel global geopolitical instability is nothing new, we just weren’t expecting it come into play so soon.
The fascinating climate battle between China and the US is about much more than the spoils of an emerging low-carbon economy – the outcome could cause a major geopolitical realignment.
The unpleasant reality for Australia's Labor-leaning climate advocates is that a vote for John Howard at the last election would have yielded exactly the sort of ETS that Rudd failed to deliver.
The campaign speech that Julia Gillard should deliver on climate change... but won't.
A change is coming that will have chilling consequences for investors and businesses that are not prepared.
The Rudd government might have failed in its attempt to introduce an ETS but, as Australia's mining industry is fast discovering, there are other ways to put a price on carbon emissions.
Occupy Wall St is the kid in the fairy tale, saying what everyone knows but has been afraid to say: the emperor has no clothes. The whole system is profoundly broken and beyond reform.