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An energy transition will be especially difficult for countries staring down onerous debt burdens. Just 42 countries have doubled their governmental, corporate, and household debt over the last decade and now carry a combined load of $3.5 trillion. In Nigeria—an Continue reading The U.N. Climate Talks Hung Poorer Nations Out to Dry
As the U.N. climate talks in Dubai enter their final hours, negotiators have fixated on one particular term: fossil fuel phaseout. The United States has insisted that the final Global Stocktake, or GST—the document summarizing where we stand on implementing Continue reading The U.S. Is Gaslighting the U.N. Climate Conference
When I first set out to report on climate change, I was convinced I knew what to do: I needed to show how climate change was going to be personal and deeply connected to our lives. People are selfish—or, put Continue reading My Garden Was My Refuge. Then Climate Change Came for It.
As critics of the plan to host the fund at the World Bank pointed out, the bank is not known for offering the kinds of grants that loss and damage requires. The kinds of “bankable,” return-generating projects able to court Continue reading The Big Riddle of the U.N. Climate Conference
A draft negotiating text released Tuesday morning UAE time shows that such a phaseout is indeed being considered by countries currently haggling over what the final, codified takeaways from the stocktake will be. “An orderly and just phase out of Continue reading The COP28 Climate Talks: So Many Pledges, So Little Progress
This year’s oil magnate president of COP28, the United Nations–backed climate change summit, is desperately trying to walk back a string of incendiary comments in which he claimed there was “no science” behind the effort to phase out fossil fuels. Continue reading So Reassuring: Climate Summit Head Sparks Outrage With Absurd Fossil Fuel Claim
The U.S. has no plan to proactively phase out so-called “unabated” fossil fuel production, despite the pledge it’s made to that effect. There are also no assurances that emissions from ever-expanding fossil fuel production can in fact be abated—a term Continue reading The U.S. Is in a Spectacularly Bad Position to Talk About Climate Change Right Now
By claiming they will at some point capture massive amounts of carbon dioxide, though, companies like ADNOC and ExxonMobil can sell world leaders on the comforting idea that not much has to change. Unfortunately, the climate models compiled by the Continue reading U.N. Climate Talks Are Crawling with Fossil Fuel Honchos and Flacks
Gordon Brown, the former British prime minister, is campaigning for a small international tax on oil and gas export revenue. William Ruto, the president of Kenya, is calling for a more ambitious package of reforms, including a tax on the Continue reading Rich People Are the Big Barrier to Stabilizing the Climate
In addition to this sort of gaslighting (pardon the pun), Trump also exploits xenophobic fears about E.V.s. Last year, at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the former president delivered an incoherent rant about a friend of his who, he said, Continue reading Autoworkers’ Historic Victory Is a Turning Point in the Climate Culture War