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‘Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know is a pleasure: gorgeous, self-contained vignettes on human progress, which you can sample at your leisure or devour in a sitting.” —Steven Pinker, au …

This book is a call for action to face up to climate change. Mc Manners argues that that there is a way out of the world’s climate emergency which needs much greater realism than the United Nations F …

Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and nongovernmental organizations have of …

The title of this short book is What’s Next?, and the short answer is Who Knows? This is despite the mounting evidence that our current worldwide problems are leading people to reassess their priorit …

Climate change policy has typically emphasized mitigation, calling for reducing emissions and shifting away from fossil fuels. Yet while these efforts have floundered, floods, wildfires, droughts, an …

Hydrocarbons are ruining our health and killing the planet. However, we don’t actually need the carbon that pollutes all our fuel. There’s hydrogen and oxygen in plain water and all it takes to relea …

Central London, October 2022: Sue Parfitt, an 80-year-old Anglican priest, is arrested for sitting in the road.  It’s not her first time, nor the last; and she isn’t alone. Christians are waking …

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) strives to facilitate a sustainable low-carbon future for Asia and the Pacific within the next half of this century. Analyzing the potential of carbon capture, utiliz …

The world has been witnessing an accelerating momentum toward carbon neutrality, with almost all major countries onboard. The stakes are extremely high with over US$100 trillion in investments needed …