I’d like to ponder this column by the Guardian’s George Monbiot, but I have to jump in my wife’s huge โminiโ-van and go pick up our guests for the weekend.
That said, I’m looking forward to the โSolutionsโ section that Ross Gelbspan is going to add to this blog in the coming months. There is much we can do without resorting to hair shirts and self-flagelation. But, as Monbiot says, only when we stop lying to ourselves – and each other – about the nature and scope of the challenge.
Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.
After MEPs voted to gut Europeโs flagship climate transparency law, concerns are mounting that the Big Four will dominate and dilute corporate sustainability audits.
Doctors and models extol the virtues of meat as climate impacts of industrial farming face scrutiny at COP30 โ the global climate summit.
Their access to the summit is proof that Big Oil still holds "a dangerous sway" over the climate process, campaigners say.
