by Lily Evergreen | Jun 3, 2024 | Politics
Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City becomes the first woman to be elected president of Mexico. Sheinbaum’s predecessor and mentor President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has claimed he is stepping aside from politics to retire to his...
by Joe Comer | May 17, 2024 | News, Politics
It looks more likely than ever that there will be a plastic treaty by the end of the year, though it is unlikely to be as comprehensive as environmentalists hoped. Representatives from 170 countries and 480 organisations met in Ottawa, Canada to develop a treaty to...
by Allison Kopf | May 9, 2024 | Climate Solutions, News, Politics
What you need to know about the coming regulation. Deforestation. The word alone conjures images of the destruction of animal and human habitats and the loss of biodiversity. The impact of deforestation is sobering, but the EU has a plan to reduce its impact on the...
by Ellie Hammonds | Apr 22, 2024 | Politics
Juries are acquitting climate protesters based on collective conscience, and the Government is trying to find every legislative loophole to stop this. How should the law deal with illegal acts grounded in morality? In April 2021, six climate protesters from...
by Joe Comer | Apr 17, 2024 | Politics
What does the Democratic Party’s landslide victory mean for South Korean climate policy? On April 10, South Koreans voted in their legislative elections for members of their 300-seat National Assembly. President Yoon Suk Yeol’s People Power Party (PPP) and their...
by Joe Comer | Apr 8, 2024 | News, Politics
Far-right parties are opposing measures to tackle climate change, how can this be countered? Climate change, and what to do about it, seems to be getting dragged into the culture wars embroiling Western societies. Subsequently, measures to tackle the issue have become...