When popular media get natural climate solutions wrong, it’s usually because they’re struggling to understand complex mechanisms that have evolved over more than 45 years. Here is a brief look back on that evolution. Second of a three-part series. Click here for all three. Once upon a time, not that…

News outlets are finally allocating resources to coverage of climate solutions, and most reporters are trying to get these complex issues right. Some, however, are repeating the same mistakes that derailed coverage of climate science itself for decades. First of a three-part series. Click here for all three. Early last…

Last week, we suffered through another barrage of revelations showing just how inept the Trump Administration has been in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. …

China’s stock market plunged 8 percent on Monday after the coronavirus shuttered half the country, including the factories of Ford, Apple, and Tesla. The country’s GDP growth is expected to fall by a third this quarter even if the outbreak is contained, and publications from the Financial Times to the…

Asset-management group BlackRock made headlines around the world last Tuesday when it said it would redirect its seven-trillion-dollar war chest away from climate-changing investments and into climate-saving ones. Two days later, it was Microsoft’s turn in the limelight. …

The 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ended Sunday without agreement on Article 6, which governs international carbon trading. Several countries, however, have vowed to move forward with “carbon clubs.” Neither Franz Perrez nor Ricardo Salles were at the top of their…

Technical negotiations around the creation of international carbon markets have wrapped up in Madrid, leaving a mess for the high-level phase of talks that begins Tuesday. 9 December 2019 | Think of year-end climate negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as a massive collaborative writing…

One week before negotiators from around the world are to gather in Madrid for a year-end summit to beef up commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says decades of foot-dragging have increased carbon dioxide concentrations 50 percent above…

Dave Groves remembers the incident all too well. “We had projects with a combined economic value in the billions of dollars,” he says. “And we were waiting on a Corps site visit to check up on the growth of vegetation.” The “projects” he’s referring to are roads, pipelines, and other…