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Greens leader says party has already made significant compromises on the safeguard mechanism Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Australia’s climate minister, Chris Bowen, has again challenged the Greens to support the government’s reforms to the safeguard mechanism, but flat-out rejected the party’s calls to ban new coal

Publication date: May 2023 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 207 Author(s): Gaëlle Leduc, Larissa Billaudet, Ebba Engström, Helena Hansson, Mary Ryan

Energy prices, Brexit and climate crisis mean growers lack confidence to plant crops, says NFU deputy Shortages of some fresh fruit and vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers could be the “tip of the iceberg”, the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has said. Certain products are hard to come by in UK supermarkets due to poor

Research ABSTRACT In January 2021, the Great Green Wall Accelerator was announced at the third One Planet Summit in Paris. Based on the notion of acceleration developed by Harmut Rosa and using the idea of conflicting temporalities in the study of social-ecological systems, this article analyzes how the political will to accelerate the Great Green

Publication date: May 2023 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 207 Author(s): Malte Lühmann, Thomas Vogelpohl

Research ABSTRACT As resource users interact and impose externalities onto each other, institutions are needed to coordinate resource use, create trust, and provide incentives for sustainable management. Coordinated collective action can play a key role in enabling communities to manage natural resource commons more sustainably. But when such collective action is not present, what can

Oil and gas companies seek expansive contracts to tackle short-term problem of tight European gas supply American oil and gas companies are pushing to solve the short-term problem of a tight European gas supply, driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) contracts, a new report shows. The US fossil fuel

George Hibberd, part of group convicted of obstruction, told court he gave up ‘dream job’ because airline was unwilling to tackle climate crisis A former easyJet pilot who sat in the road outside Harrods to cause traffic chaos told a court he left his job because he thought he was contributing to climate change. George