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World faces ‘abrupt jump’ in pace of ice loss around 2060 unless emissions reduced to meet Paris agreement goals, study warns The current pace of global heating risks unleashing “rapid and unstoppable” sea level rise from the melting of Antarctica’s vast ice sheet, a new research paper has warned. Unless planet-heating emissions are swiftly reduced

To mark the end of his time as an Independent Director at Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, John was interviewed by James Anderson, the joint manager of Scottish Mortgage, about his thoughts on risk and uncertainty in investment. You can read the interview here. The post Rethinking Risk appeared first on John Kay.

Invasive alien species are a serious threat to freshwater ecosystems and overall biodiversity. Although invasive alien species management in the form of environmental governance has often been practiced under an adaptive governance scheme, prevailing theoretical and practical difficulties must be solved to enhance policy effectiveness and outcomes. Our objective was to clarify how it is

National agency will fund projects such as bushfire and cyclone-proofing houses and building levees to try and control floods The Morrison government will use next week’s budget to establish a national recovery and resilience agency and create a new climate service to help manage the risk of natural disasters. The government will allocate $600m to

Readers respond to an article on the battle to burn England’s moorlands Why is an otherwise balanced article on the importance of peat bogs (‘It has become them and us’: the battle to burn England’s moorlands, 1 May) framed by the grouse moor landowners’ point of view, beginning with the title and ending with a

Global heating is now setting the parameters of political debate These are heady days to be a German Green. Last month, Die Grünen chose 40-year-old Annalena Baerbock as their candidate for chancellor in September’s federal election. Since then there has been a huge influx of new members excited by the prospect of what is shaping