Perspectives

Oil companies say reducing their production won’t reduce CO2 emissions. Here’s the reality.

Perspective / SEI's Peter Erickson details why Shell's arguments in a recent court case are misleading, in the wake of a verdict ordering the oil major to reduce emissions.

Addressing the biodiversity losses embedded in global commodity trade

Perspective / New and existing research should be translated into actionable material to address biodiversity losses.

How to leverage the power of digital participatory tools in urban planning

Perspective / What do practitioners need to be aware of when planning urban green infrastructure using digital tools to engage stakeholders?

Climate justice means involving gender and sexual minorities in policy and action

Perspective / Climate change affects those who are most discriminated against, profoundly altering their rights to safety and access to social justice.

When will we have the first Climate Accountability Summit?

Perspective / The Leaders Summit on Climate was the United States’ grand re-entry into international climate politics, fuelling further progress up until COP26.

Earth Day in the pandemic: rethinking our relationship with nature

Perspective / Can a world still reeling from the pandemic use Earth Day as a turning point to establish a new relationship with the environment?

Moving the UN climate talks online: analysing the options

Perspective / Getting the question of how to move UN climate talks online right is crucial to seizing the opportunity to make talks more inclusive, transparent and effective.

Forest resources are at the heart of the EU’s bioeconomy strategy. How can they be used sustainably?

Perspective / In its push for climate-neutrality, the EU bets high on the bioeconomy. Catch up with the latest debates on the issue.

Defections and death spirals

Perspective / There is great potential for synergies to emerge when gridless technologies for energy and WASH are combined in off-grid settings.