climate change
The recent failure of Solar Flagship projects to meet financing deadlines is simply due to a poor policy process and we’re in danger of repeating the same mistakes with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.
Public debate over coal seam gas is raging, but if you are concerned about climate change be very wary about offering complete opposition to it.
New claims from a collection of scientists argue that climate change is not such a dangerous threat after all, and cast doubt on AGW theory as a 'collection of stubborn scientific facts.' But is this accurate?
Reminiscent of the evolution-vs-creationism clash, the scientific theory that humans are causing the warming of the planet has emerged as the new battlefield in middle and high schools in the US.
Warming across the Himalayas has been greater than the global average – and with dire consequences. In a worst-case scenario, the region's melting glaciers could eventually threaten more than 1.3 billion people.
Singapore, one of the world's wealthiest nations in per-capita terms, is also among the most vulnerable to climate change-induced sea-level rise. So what is the government doing about it?
Hydraulic fracturing has solved one problem (peak fuel) but sharpened another (climate change). Policymakers can no longer rely on increasing scarcity to restrain demand and CO2 emissions.
Climate economist Nicholas Stern outlines the investment needed to limit, prevent and adapt to climate change as the costs begin to go far beyond GDP.