What opportunities and risks does AI present for climate action?
The net zero transition and the digital transformation are the two most powerful forces of the 21st century. There are promising signs that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can support climate action, but...
View ArticleWhat is deep-sea mining and how is it connected to the net zero transition?
The mining of the deep seabed, at depths of 2,000 metres and greater, is increasingly being considered as a potential solution to the expected global shortage of so-called ‘transition-critical’ raw...
View ArticleWhat is water security and how is it impacted by climate change?
What is water security? Water is essential to humans’ everyday existence and for a range of economic activities in rural, urban and industrial contexts. Yet access to water varies dramatically, from...
View ArticleWhat is the Global Stocktake?
The Global Stocktake (GST) is a comprehensive assessment of the world’s progress on climate action. Anchored in Article 14 of the Paris Agreement, it is intended to inform Parties to the Agreement on...
View ArticleWhat is meant by intergenerational climate justice?
A multidimensional concept with emerging guidelines and principles Climate change is an inherently intergenerational issue: its adverse impacts, driven by human activity, pose serious implications for...
View ArticleWhat are sustainability-linked bonds and how can they help developing countries?
Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) are a new and increasingly popular kind of conservation finance. They emerged in 2019 through private sector issuances but are used in both the public and private...
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What is the just transition and what does it mean for climate action?
The just transition first emerged as a labour-oriented concept from North American unions in the 1970s. It has since broadened and found particular traction in the climate change context. This is...
View ArticleHow is the UK responding to heatwave risk?
More frequent and intense heatwaves are one of the impacts of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has declared it virtually certain that this will be a more...
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What is rewilding and how is it relevant to climate change?
Rewilding is an approach to large-scale nature restoration and conservation that aims to reinstate natural processes and sometimes ‘missing’ species into landscapes that have been managed and/or...
View ArticleWhat do times of economic hardship mean for the UK’s transition to net zero?
A cost of living crisis has caused widescale hardship for UK households in recent years, further compounding the impacts of a stagnation in living standards since the global financial crisis and...
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