Perspectives

Five lessons from environmental defenders for climate and environmental researchers

Perspective / Some lessons on policy engagement from environmental defenders for climate and environmental researchers.

Climate adaptation funds are not reaching frontline communities: what needs to be done about it

Perspective / Katherine Browne explains the barriers found in Madagascar and Mauritius, and insights on how to improve financing of climate adaptation projects.

A “transition” from fossil fuels to fossil fuels?

Perspective / For Ecopetrol, the Colombian national oil and gas company, diversification is one strategy to navigate the “clean energy” transition – but not the main one.

To deliver on sustainable consumption targets, countries must measure their footprints

Perspective / Trase, in partnership with Defra, the GCRF Trade Hub and SEI York, is releasing the Global Environment Impacts indicator.

A decade after powerful Typhoon Haiyan, reflections on how power affects recovery

Perspective / On 8 November 2013, super Typhoon Haiyan left a trail of destruction in the Philippines. A researcher reflects on power and recovery on the 10-year anniversary.

UK schools help monitor classroom air quality in massive citizen science project

Perspective / "Scientists, teachers and pupils are working together to evaluate air quality in UK classrooms" writes Sarah West in Air Quality News Magazine.

A decade after Typhoon Haiyan: reflections from a survivor

Perspective / This piece reflects on what went wrong and how disaster planning can be made more effective and inclusive.

Aftermath of Storm Babet shows the cost of short-term research funding

Perspective / When groundbreaking research projects come to an end when their funding expires, critical research findings are left stranded on the precipice of action.

Three major gaps in climate-adaptation finance for developing countries

Perspective / Experts examine the flow of public adaptation funds from the governments of developed countries to developing countries since the Paris Agreement.