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The Energy Trilemma: Affordability, Security and Climate

Chris Hall

If the aim of restricting climate change to within the Paris-agreed 1.5°C C increase over pre-industrial temperatures was hanging by a thread at the end of COP26, subsequent economic and geopolitical events appear to have dealt a blow to those ambitions – at least in the short term. Beast from the east.

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Let the Climate Finance Flow

Chris Hall

At COP26, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero ( GFANZ ) declared a sector-wide commitment of US$130 trillion – a number that has increased over the year to US$150 trillion – of private capital to transition the global economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. It doesn’t make it certain.”. Engagement ring.

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Despite the Headlines, 2021 Was A Year Full of Environmental Victories

Richard Matthews

Environmental successes are easily overlooked in a world ravaged by climate change, biodiversity loss, an ongoing global pandemic and attacks against democracy. The dystopian legacy of the former president is becoming increasingly clear to all but the willfully ignorant as is his politicization of climate change and COVID.