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Ever since 1969, people have asked themselves why if humans can land on the moon, can’t they solve pressing problems here on Earth, such as poverty, dementia and climate change. Mariana Mazzucato offers an answer: if only governments would apply the mission-driven methods of the Apollo project, they could. Mission Economy, the new book from

Scientists say temperatures likely to be increasing faster than at any time in past 2,000 years Analysis: why are ocean warming records being broken year after year? The world’s oceans reached their hottest level in recorded history in 2020, supercharging the extreme weather impacts of the climate emergency, scientists have reported. More than 90% of

Publication date: April 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 182 Author(s): Onil Banerjee, Martin Cicowiez, Renato Vargas, Carl Obst, Javier Rojas Cala, Andrés Camilo Alvarez-Espinosa, Sioux Melo, Leidy Riveros, Germán Romero, Diego Sáenz Meneses

To date, methods for assessing community resilience have focused predominantly on disaster recovery. Those that do focus on broader social-ecological and psychological contexts tend to be qualitative and have not been validated at the community scale. This situation reveals a need for quantitative measurement tools for assessing community resilience to slow-moving change such as rural

But emissions reductions came at huge cost and will likely rebound as vaccines are distributed, authors of report say Planet-heating emissions in the US fell by more than 10% in 2020, a record drop generated by extraordinary reductions in travel and industrial activity in the teeth of the coronavirus pandemic, new figures show. The historic

Coalition says promise is key to preventing mass extinctions and ensuring clean air and water A coalition of more than 50 countries has committed to protect almost a third of the planet by 2030 to halt the destruction of the natural world and slow extinctions of wildlife. The High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature and

Europe’s second-largest financier of fossil fuels faces a vote to ramp up its climate commitments HSBC could be forced to slash its exposure to fossil fuels – starting with coal – from next year, after an influential group of investors filed a shareholder vote urging the bank to ramp up its climate commitments. Fifteen pension