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Exclusive: Ángel Gurría says action on environmental crises must be defining focus of wealthy countries after Covid Finance ministers have to be green, says head of OECD The environment, climate change and the protection of nature must be the defining tasks of rich and major developing countries now and in the years to come, the

Publication date: June 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 184 Author(s): Olivier E. Malay, Stephane Aubinet

Election year could deliver the best result in the party’s 40-year history, and send a message on climate targets from Europe’s most powerful state Pre-pandemic, Europe’s green parties were on a roll. In France last summer, supporters hailed a “green wave” after regional polls handed the Europe Ecology party control of showcase cities such as

Richard Murphy and Colin Hines on creating a programme of economic activity that improves social conditions and addresses the environmental crisis There is no better example of what Larry Elliott perceptively terms “capitalism for dummies”, whereby our political systems self-destructively fail to tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis, than the unspent 95% of the green

Judiciary | Queen’s leases | Travel plans | Ancient showroom | Stonehenge Donald Trump’s acquittal in the US Senate (Report, 14 February) surely provides the best possible evidence for never allowing politicians to get involved in judicial decision-making. Their priorities lie in other directions. Les Baker Fordingbridge, Hampshire • The Queen gets £220m a year

Publication date: May 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 183 Author(s): Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski, Natalie Stoeckl, Tom Kompas

In an exclusive extract from his new book, the Microsoft founder explains why we need to cut carbon emissions to zero – even if he is an ‘imperfect messenger’ There are two numbers you need to know about climate change. The first is 51bn. The other is zero. Fifty-one billion is how many tons of