Environment

A public jobs guarantee is the only way to provide economic recovery without endangering the climate.

Existing models of U.S. politics are wrong. Here’s how the system really works.

New sustainable finance regulations in Europe will raise the bar for green investment.

By overturning the principle that the West must decarbonize before developing countries, Beijing has opened the way for real action.

Environmental crisis has become caught up in petty struggles.

Massively in debt to Beijing, countries in the region can’t stand up to China to protect their coasts.

The great powers have taken big steps to fight global warming. Now attention turns to the rest of the world.

Securing human rights in the supply chain of critical minerals is vital for a green future.

The technology to build new green economies is mostly produced in China. That’s bad for the United States.

There are big problems with the most important metric used to assess progress toward the U.N.'s environmental goals.

In a little-noticed speech this week, China permanently changed the global fight against climate change.

The choice is simple: accept devastating wildfires, extreme weather, species loss, and disease outbreaks or secure a sustainable future at a fraction of the cost.

Blue skies, clear water, thriving wildlife—nature has regenerated thanks to global lockdowns. How can we make the effect last?

Political ambitions make China’s emissions growth inevitable even as the economy falters.

Thanks to the pandemic, demand is flattening faster than expected. In turn, the energy economy could transform sooner rather than later.

Well-meaning green stimulus plans fall far short of what’s needed for the climate and the economy.

A conversation with Nina Lakhani, author of “Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet”

A celebrated new book shows U.S. capitalism doesn’t need to damage the planet. One problem: Its data is flawed.

The global transition to renewables could lead to human rights abuses and risks exacerbating inequalities between the West and the developing world.

In the East Asian democracies, nuclear energy is tied to an increasingly unpopular political and economic model.