Climate Change

Coal is transported via conveyor belt to the coal-fired Jim Bridger Power Plant that supplied by the neighboring Jim Bridger mine that is owned by energy firm PacifiCorp and the Idaho Power Company, outside Point of the Rocks, Wyoming March 14, 2014. West Virginia mined 120 million tons (109 metric tons) of coal in 2012, second to Wyoming, or about 12 percent of total U.S. production. Kentucky was third with about 9 percent of output, according to the National Mining Association. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENERGY BUSINESS)

Policy 2020

What is the Trump administration’s track record on the environment?

Samantha Gross

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Washington, DC - April 29, 2017: Thousands of people attend the People's Climate March to stand up against climate change. By Nicole Glass Photography

Podcast Episode

What’s in Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan?

Joseph W. Kane and Adrianna Pita

Friday, July 24, 2020

Labourers work at a coal stockyard in East Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya, India, September 16, 2015. A senior Indian politician has been lobbying New Delhi to lift a ban on dangerous, small-scale coal mining operations in his state, without disclosing that his wife owns several mines there, according to documents seen by Reuters. So-called "rat-hole" mining practised in Meghalaya state killed thousands of workers, including children, before the ban was imposed in April last year. At its peak the state produced coal worth $4 billion a year, or about a tenth of India's total production, nearly all from this form of small-scale mining. Picture taken September 16, 2015. REUTERS/Krishna N. Das

PlanetPolicy

Why India’s push for private-sector coal mining won’t raise carbon emissions

Rahul Tongia

Monday, July 20, 2020

Cars go through the flood caused by heavy rains on Biscayne Boulevard in Aventura on May 24, 2020, in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla. (Photo by David Santiago/Miami Herald/TNS/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Report

Boosting local climate resilience and economic opportunity in the COVID-19 era

Joseph W. Kane

Monday, July 20, 2020

Reports

Essay

Why are fossil fuels so hard to quit?

Samantha Gross

Monday, June 8, 2020

Children march through a shopping centre in Cambridge during a YouthStrike4Climate march.

Report

Roadblocks to quality education in a time of climate change

Christina Kwauk

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Policy 2020

The United States can take climate change seriously while leading the world in oil and gas production

Samantha Gross

Monday, January 27, 2020

A general view of the new PS20 solar plant which was inaugurated last month at "Solucar" solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville, October 7, 2009. The solar thermal power plant uses mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto towers where they produce steam to drive a turbine, producing electricity. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo (SPAIN ENERGY ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E5A71NB401

Climate Change

Renewables, land use, and local opposition in the United States

Samantha Gross

January 2020

Report

Africa can play a leading role in the fight against climate change

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Blog Posts

TURIN, ITALY - June 05, 2020: Protesters hold a banner reading 'Fight every crisis' during a Fridays for future demonstration, a worldwide climate strike against governmental inaction towards climate breakdown and environmental pollution. (Photo by Nicolò Campo/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Future Development

Climate change merits a fiscal response like COVID-19’s

Vinod Thomas

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Executive Orders regarding trade lay on the Resolute desk in the Oval Office of the White House March 31, 2017 in Washington, DC. .Photo by Olivier Douliery/ Abaca

FixGov

The limitations of a climate change presidency

Barry G. Rabe

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

PlanetPolicy

Building back better: Why Europe must lead a global green recovery

David G. Victor

June 11, 2020

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Events

2020

Apr

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Webinar: Confronting climate change in the global COVID-19 recovery

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Climate threats and climate justice: Action and adaptation for sustainable development

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EST

Asia Transnational Threats Forum: Climate change in Asia

1:30 PM - 4:45 PM EST

Washington, DC

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Experts

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Multimedia

Steam rises from a pile of coal at a mine in Bishop, West Virginia, U.S., May 19, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Podcast Episode

Why we still use fossil fuels

Samantha Gross and Fred Dews

Friday, July 17, 2020

A Greenpeace activist makes adjustments while hanging from the ceiling inside a giant model of the globe near Konin open mine, 70 km from Poznan, western Poland December 3, 2008. Greenpeace established a camp to protest against the damage it says the Konin mine is doing to the climate, regional tourism and farming, and against the planned opening of new sites. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel (POLAND) - GM1E4C406SK01

PlanetPolicy

COVID-19 and climate: Your questions, our answers

Pablo Vieira, Stéphane Hallegatte, Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, and Todd Stern

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Demonstrators take part in the rally ''Europe Climate Strike'' in Brussels, Belgium, March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

Podcast Episode

What coronavirus teaches us about addressing climate change

William Burke-White, Todd Stern, and Andrea Risotto

Friday, April 10, 2020

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