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Performers join forces with experts for two-month Climate Change festival in a London theatre After Extinction Rebellion’s call for urgent action on the streets of London last year, the issue of climate change is to stage another major London takeover. From 23 March, the wider environmental debate will dominate proceedings inside a West End theatre

Impact of increase in shrubs and grasses not yet known but scientists say it could increase flooding in the region Shrubs and grasses are springing up around Mount Everest and across the Himalayas, one of the most rapidly heating regions of the planet. Related: 1.9 billion people at risk from mountain water shortages, study shows

Our readers have donated £825,000 for charities battling the climate emergency and our appeal ends on Sunday • Please donate to our charity appeal here The climate emergency was this year’s highly topical Guardian and Observer charity appeal cause, and our aim was to raise money to plant, protect and renew forests and woodland in

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Publication date: April 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 170 Author(s): Cornelius Hirsch, Tamás Krisztin, Linda See Abstract Worldwide increasing demand for agricultural products poses the critical question of where this additional production will take place. In this context, the phenomenon of large scale Foreign Land Acquisition (FLA) is one strategy that has been controversially discussed

Publication date: April 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 170 Author(s): Thomas Bolognesi, Stephane Nahrath Abstract This article proposes a new theoretical explanation to the question of environmental governance failures, combining micro and macro explanations in the long run. We put forward the concept of Transversal Transaction Costs (TTCs) as a critical source of governance failures.

World’s largest investor signs up to Climate Action 100+ after criticism from activists BlackRock, the world’s largest investor, has joined an influential pressure group calling for the biggest polluters to reduce their emissions, after criticisms that it was undermining action addressing the climate crisis. The US investment firm has signed up to Climate Action 100+,

Daniel Pryor of the Adam Smith Institute, David E Hanke, Georgina Ferry and Prof Mick Watson respond to an article by George Monbiot claiming that lab-grown food will end farming and save the planet It’s encouraging to find agreement across the political divide on the potential of new technologies to combat climate change, reduce animal

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