A Paris Agreement for the Shipping Industry John Light April 18, 2018The UN agency that oversees shipping, the International Maritime Organization, adopted its first-ever deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions last week. On Friday, the IMO, which has more than 170 member nation...
Young People Around the World Are Increasingly Suing Governments To Protect the Environment. (And they are winning) John Light April 11, 2018In 1998, researchers at Shell wrote a memo in which they predicted a series of devastating storms in the year 2010. The storms would ravage the East Coast of the United States, the memo suggested, and would be ...
Map of the Day: Where Investment in Renewables is Booming Mark Leon Goldberg April 6, 2018Today's map comes from a new UN-backed report Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2018. As the name suggests the report, which was a joint effort of the United Nations Environment Program and Bloomberg...
Podcast: The Wanjira Mathai Interview Mark Leon Goldberg March 27, 2018Wanjira Mathai is a Kenyan environmental and civic leader. She is the chair of the Wangari Mathai Foundation, which is named after her mother who won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her work on environmental...
For the first time, an International Treaty to Protect Environmental Activists John Light March 16, 2018In many Latin American countries, environmental protests can be a matter of life and death for the activists involved. In a tally put out last year, the non-profit Global Witness reported that 200 people had be...
The UN Created a New Way to Monitor Small Scale Natural Disasters Around the World Mark Leon Goldberg March 2, 2018In UN circles "Sendai" is shorthand for a major 2016 conference about disaster risk reduction, which took place in Sendai, Japan. Out of this meeting came the "Sendai Framework" which is often referenced in UN ...
PODCAST: Anote Tong is the former President of Kiribati, an island nation threatened by the rising seas Mark Leon Goldberg February 12, 2018To the people of Kiribati, climate change is an existential threat.This is an Island nation in the pacific -- it is a string of atolls about halfway between Australia and Hawaii. It has a population of ...
Cape Town is Running Out of Water (Welcome to Our Future) Kimberly Curtis February 8, 2018Cape Town is bracing for an unfortunate distinction: becoming the first major city in the world to run out of water. Severe drought over the past three years coupled with population growth means the city and i...
The Omission of “Climate Change” from the New US National Security Strategy Could Have Broad Diplomatic Consequences John Light December 20, 2017Earlier this week, Donald Trump put out a National Security Strategy that made no mention of climate change. This struck some observers as curious, given that many of his top generals — including Secretary ...
