Environment / Climate Change

Juliet Ferguson investigates the Energy Charter Treaty, an international agreement which could be very bad news for energy policy across the Global South.

German energy giant sues the Netherlands for compensation, reports Nick Dowson.

Claire Fauset is on board with Arka Kinari, an extraordinary ecological live music project, staged from the deck of a traditional sailing ship as it tours the world.

We have brought the natural world and its diversity to a breaking point. Dinyar Godrej surveys the damage and explores how we need to act to repair it.

Let down by the state and in-home care companies, Ally Bruener struggles to balance care for the planet with her own vital needs.

Words – Amy Hall.

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

Skipping meals to talk to the media, aiming to get arrested – and still making it to your hockey game. These are just some of the tasks found on the to-do lists of campaigners in Canada who are putting everything on the line to fight for a liveable, just future. Lucy EJ Woods went to meet them.

Louise Gray speaks to Peter Cusack about a sensory project bringing a new dimension to environmental storytelling.

Vanessa Baird on how to turn a toxic bane into a liberating blessing.

Vanessa Baird dreams on. Or maybe not?

Jeremy Seabrook surveys a political landscape riven with virulent nostalgias which obscure an essential conflict – how to reconcile the needs of the planet with the necessities of economics?

Without the ocean, climate change would be happening much faster.

Ecological breakdown is in the spotlight. Danny Chivers outlines five ways to seize the moment.

Can we move away from fossil fuels without destroying the communities that rely on them? Sam Adler Bell looks to the devastated US coalfields of Appalachia.

The super-rich are preparing for doomsday. Only problem is, the rest of us aren’t invited. Tom Whyman explains.

Lifestyle changes are no substitute for collective action. But personal carbon-cutting still matters – it’s a powerful way to signal the climate emergency to those around us, move the needle on policy and set bigger cultural changes in motion. Mike Berners-Lee lays out an nine-step carbon detox.

In order to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C, over 80 per cent of known fossil-fuel reserves simply cannot be burned. As political systems fail, Danny Chivers writes about the social movements are targeting mines, rigs, infra­structure and investment to keep carbon in the ground. Illustrations: Jason Ngai.

Pacific Climate Warrior Brianna Fruean and Anna Taylor of UK school strikes movement talk what inspires them and how to avoid activist burnout. Conversation moderated by Hazel Healy.

Current emissions; Halving by 2030; Policies to zero by 2050.