Social, Economic and Political issues.

Scorching inequality — a wake up call to draw the line on global heating
By pascale, 2025-08-15

Anthropocene
The surprising consensus on carbon fairness—and the self-deception undermining it.
By Sarah DeWeerdt, 2025-07-15

From holes in the earth to powerhouses: The solar potential of abandoned pit mines is huge.
By Sarah DeWeerdt, 2025-07-29

A sweeping survey of the Global South finds scientists are the most credible voices on climate
By Sarah DeWeerdt, 2025-09-02

BBC News
Top UN court says countries can sue each other over climate change
2025-07-23

Climate Civics
ICJ finds nations have legal duty to act on climate
By Climate Civics International, 2025-07-23

Canceling climate policy will cost trillions & worse
By Joseph Robertson, 2025-07-30

Rights-focused policy for a livable future
By Joseph Robertson, 2025-08-11

Climate Law Blog
Corporations, Climate, and the Court: New Directions for Business and Human Rights in AO-32/25
By Sarah Dorman, Monica Iyer and Kelsey Jost-Creegan, 2025-07-24

Human Rights in the ICJ’s Climate Opinion: A Comparative Evaluation
By Corina Heri, 2025-08-01

The Struggle against Fossil Sovereignty: The International Court of Justice in the Climate Crisis
By Jochen von Bernstorff and Ingo Venzke, 2025-08-06

A Panoply of Consequences? Remedies and Reparations in the ICJ’s Climate Opinion
By Maria Antonia Tigre, Camille Martini, Miriam Cohen and Armando Rocha, 2025-08-13

When Custom Binds All States: Reflections on Customary International Law in the ICJ Climate Advisory Opinion
By Markus W. Gehring, 2025-08-17

Is Montevideo Sinking? “Disappearing” States and De-territorialized Statehood Following the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change
By Aurelio Corneo and Judith Scherer, 2025-08-20

Climate Majority Project
SAFER Causes a Stir: Zero-sum frames die hard
By Greg Dance, 2025-07-24

Liam Kavanagh, Rupert Read – Climate Adaptation Processes can create further serious social and political change
By Greg Dance, 2025-08-10

Conservation news
Carbon offset markets are unfair to communities in Borneo & beyond (commentary)
By Fiona McAlpine Erik Hoffner, 2025-08-29

DeSmog
Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead
By Sharon Kelly, 2025-08-13

EcoWatch
UN’s Top Court Rules That ‘Clean, Healthy’ Environment Is a Human Right
By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, 2025-07-24

Earth Overshoot Day Reaches Record for Earliest Date
By Paige Bennett, 2025-07-28

Environment | The Guardian
‘Keeping us hooked on fossil fuels’: how can we negotiate with autocracies on the climate crisis?
By Fiona Harvey Environment editor, 2025-07-18

Tax on AI and crypto could fund climate action, says former Paris accords envoy
By Fiona Harvey Environment editor, 2025-07-17

‘It feels cool to be a cog in change’: how doughnut economics is reshaping a Swedish town
By Abigail Sykes, 2025-07-17

‘Boiling frog’ effect makes people oblivious to threat of climate crisis, shows study
By David Hambling, 2025-07-24

Nations who fail to curb fossil fuels could be ordered to pay reparations, top UN court rules
By Isabella Kaminski in The Hague, 2025-07-23

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
By Damian Carrington Environment editor, 2025-08-02

Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds
By Patrick Barkham, 2025-08-09

Voices arguing that climate action is a waste of time are getting louder. Here’s why they are wrong | Clear Air
By Adam Morton, 2025-08-19

Do heatwaves, wildfires and travel costs signal the end of the holiday abroad?
By Ajit Niranjan, 2025-08-23

Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds
By Jonathan Watts Global environment editor, 2025-08-27

Happy Eco News
Global Shipping to Face First Industry-Wide Net-Zero Shipping Regulations by 2027
By Junior Brown, 2025-08-01

There is Hope
By Leah Dawang, 2025-08-13

What Scotland’s Ecocide Law Means for the Environment and You
By Junior Brown, 2025-09-04

Inside Climate News
Governments Are Legally Required to Address Climate Change, Top Global Court Says
By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma, 2025-07-23

The Colorado River Is This Tribe’s ‘Lifeblood,’ Now They Want To Give It the Same Legal Rights as a Person
By Alex Hager, KUNC, 2025-08-26

Inside track
How wealth inequality is supercharging climate risks
By Green Alliance blog, 2025-07-18

REVOLVE
India’s Circular Shift in Waste and Wastewater
By shreya, 2025-07-21

Building Climate Resilience Through Gender and Circularity
By shreya, 2025-09-02

State of the Planet
Can Tariffs Lead to a More Circular Economy?
By Guest, 2025-08-01

The Angry Army
Climate change is creating ‘new vulnerabilities’ for disease pandemics
By angryarmy, 2025-07-23

IEA: Renewables will be world’s top power source ‘by 2026’
By angryarmy, 2025-07-31

Warming due to tropical deforestation linked to 28,000 ‘excess’ deaths per year
By angryarmy, 2025-08-27

The CLEO Institute
Designing Hope Beyond the Climate Crisis
By CLEO, 2025-09-03

The Climate Brink
Have renewables decreased electricity prices: European edition
By Andrew Dessler, 2025-07-24

The Crucial Years
Will they ever pay a price?
By Bill McKibben, 2025-07-25

Yale Climate Connections
Toxic masculinity isn’t just a social issue. It prevents us from fully addressing climate change, too.
By Ishimwe Félicien, 2025-07-17

Two international courts just issued major climate rulings. Here’s what that means.
By Rafael Méndez Tejeda and Pearl Marvell, 2025-07-23

My climate guilt is real – but the actual villains keep getting away with it
By Ana Flores, 2025-07-21

4 billion people experienced a whole extra month of extreme heat in the past year
By YCC Team, 2025-08-05