4 ways to spark more financing for sustainable chemistry
The recent INC2 negotiations on a global plastic treaty have focused attention on the entire life cycle of plastics — from plastics’ fossil fuel origins and toxic additives to plastic…
Amazon’s HQ2 is here, and it’s seriously sustainable
The plans for Amazon’s second headquarters began five years ago as a fierce nationwide competition — pitting cities against each other to become the home of a glitzy new office…
Public banks agree to check investments against countries’ climate plans
Ten multilateral development banks have agreed on how to make sure their investments meet climate goals. But experts told Climate Home the rules do not go far enough. A group…
Unfinished paperwork is kneecapping solar’s potential in China
Heaps of new renewable energy are going up in China, but there’s more to an energy transition than hardware In recent years, China has installed a mind-blowing number of solar…
Microbes play leading role in soil carbon capture, study shows
More carbon is stored in the soil than in all plants, animals and the atmosphere combined, making it among the most critical conservation frontiers as we face the climate crisis.…
Environmental policy and action on the ground in the Amazon
From the outset, academics realised that the development programmes being deployed across the Amazon in the 1960s and 1970s would bring irreversible harm. Attempts to promote conservation were a natural…