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Voters across the world care about the climate – so why don’t green parties do better at the ballot box, and could something be about to change?

Flying will always come with a hefty carbon footprint. The best way to green the industry is to avoid it

A series of domestic and international crises have deepened China’s addiction to coal. What will it take to wean it off?

The UK is using its limited land badly. Government plans won’t make agriculture change fast enough

We’ll need a wider variety of ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere if we’re going to keep the planet cool.

The West doesn’t control the resources it needs to build a renewable energy future. China does

Nuclear power is a key part of the government’s strategy, but an inadequate solution to the energy crisis and the need for immediate and deep decarbonisation

In a climate and energy crisis, the UK’s leaky, old housing stock is an extravagance neither people nor the planet can afford.

It’s getting cheaper to make the energy-storing gas using renewables – and that could help the world through the energy crisis.

It’s tempting to believe the solution to cutting soaring energy bills is lying beneath our feet. But after a decade dreaming of a US-style shale revolution, fracking has failed to deliver.

If Europe were to survive next winter without Russian gas, it would have to shift to a wartime footing. In the short term that could put net zero at risk. In the longer term it could accelerate climate action

Part two of the IPCC landmark report on climate change highlights both the risks and opportunities for cities.

There is no net zero without Africa, and that’s a problem

The government needs to make it clear to the public that net zero remains a priority, despite high gas prices and calls to delay from the backbench.

The oil majors are reporting soaring profits, but the pressure on them to decarbonise continues to mount. Driving down demand could force them to go faster.

The Beijing Winter Olympics are taking place in an area completely unsuited to winter sports. But at least the air will be clearer than it was in 2008

The world creates 300 million tonnes of plastic waste every year – but companies still can’t get enough recycled material to stop using it brand new.

Permafrost covers nine million square miles of the Earth’s surface – and it’s thawing faster than ever. Will the big melt become a climate feedback loop?

At Cop26 last year, financial institutions made a $130 trillion promise to save the planet. How’s it going so far?

The EU is trying to define what constitutes a “green” investment, but member states have conflicting ideas about what that really means.

Imagine a world in which carbon cap and trade systems actually worked. Guess what? It’s happening.

Humans aren’t finding climate solutions fast enough. Luckily, machines can help.

Natural and unnatural disasters can cut carbon emissions, but so can the right policies.

US Congress has a habit of killing off climate-focused legislation. Can Biden’s transformative bill make it through?

Cop survives as a way to progress the fight against climate change but only because this year’s host spent a lot of energy on key deals outside the core agenda.

Will a deal emerge from Glasgow that has the teeth to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees? Or will the forces of inactivism prevail?

The gap between electric vehicle uptake and the infrastructure to charge them is growing. The hassle that will cause could put drivers off

The amount of carbon put out needs to decrease, the amount taken in to increase. To do that you need to count carbon. Welcome to remote sensing. 

The law is becoming an increasingly powerful tool in holding companies and countries to account on their emissions – but some cases fail to bring the latest science into the courtroom.

There are good, natural reasons why flooding rivers and the sea with sewage is a terrible idea. It’s also deeply unpopular

The UK Cop presidency has made ending coal use its main mission. Will a new global deal succeed in banishing the black stuff?

If we keep the promises made at Cop, many of these fading monuments of natural glacial beauty may yet survive

The UK Cop presidency has made ending coal use its main mission. Will a new global deal succeed in banishing the black stuff?

On day three of Cop, three lanky men walk into a conference centre promising the world with trillions of other people’s dollars. Not everyone believes them.

On day two of Cop more than 100 countries joined forces to protect 85 per cent of the world’s forests. What’s not to like? We’ve tried this before and it didn’t work, but apart from that it’s a big step forward

Day one of Cop 26 got off to better than expected. But are we seeing enough action from the mega-polluters: India, US, Russia and China?

If the future of this Earth depended on the cajolery of the UN’s climate conference, we’d all be screwed. But the trillions of dollars poised for investment in the environment should give us hope

“Green lairds” are buying up Scotland to offset emissions and green their reputations. They can make a difference – but communities must have more say

Findings from Tortoise’s Responsibility 100 Index show that the UK’s biggest supermarket chains are failing basic transparency tests when reporting on their environmental impact.

The world’s most populous continent, with its fastest-growing economies, depends on coal. We’ve mapped the data over the last 50 years to try and get a sense of this critical challenge for Asia – and the world

In advance of Cop 26, there remains a yawning gap between countries’ pledges and policy action. Britain is making a last-ditch effort to narrow it

Aviation talks a big game about reaching net zero. But to actually achieve it, the industry and customers face some tough choices.

Let the world’s farmlands breathe and come alive, and they might just steer the planet to net zero

Join us at The New York Times Climate Hub as we discuss Cop26, and help build a practical to-do list to save the planet.

Nobody understands what is happening in the Arctic better than its Indigenous people. Effective climate change adaptation means giving them more power over the resources on which they depend

The global fight against climate change depends on us protecting the natural resources we still have left. We should be prepared to pay for that

Humans have always been a relentlessly mobile species. But climate change is accelerating the number of people fleeing drought and disaster. How will developed nations respond?

One of the central aims of Cop26 is to assemble a set of Nationally Determined Contributions towards global emissions reduction (NDCs). Are they ambitious enough?

John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy, wishes China wouldn’t link climate change to global politics – he says it isn’t a geostrategic issue. China says: oh yes it is

Is the widespread adoption of hydrogen a necessary step towards net zero?

Decarbonisation alone won’t solve the climate crisis. In the scramble to prevent average temperatures climbing more than 1.5°C within the next 20 years, we meed to slash methane emissions too.

Step one towards Net Zero is funding alternatives to coal for countries that are hooked on it

The weather has never been more political. When will it actually change policy?

Renewables are growing fast, but fossil fuels need to shrink much faster

Could undercover footage of Exxon lobbyist Keith McCoy be the juice that climate litigation needs?

COP26 is in trouble. With only four months to go, the broad goals are clear but no one is confident of progress towards achieving them and the big Biden dividend – US climate leadership after the Trump disaster – is nowhere to be seen

The EU is finally putting serious money behind sustainable farming

Brazil’s southern region has been crippled by a lack of rain in the last year, an event that’s been attributed to the inversion of La Niña. But why has it reversed? And why now?

At last week’s ThinkIn, we assessed what we should be doing at Tortoise over the next 12 months if we want to advance the net zero agenda

Will the Net Zero Teeside project, focused on carbon capture, usage and storage, amount to anything serious?

Your weekly update on what we’re doing – and what more we can do – to build an agenda for COP26 that makes a difference

The hollowed trunk of the mighty baobab tree is used to store life-giving water in the extreme drought of southern Madagascar

We have to get to net zero soon. The question is how

More than four fifths of the world’s energy still comes from coal, oil and gas. The challenge is to phase them out as demand goes on rising

The October Rebellion pitted climate protestors against police – and left both sides bedraggled

Climate activists occupied five key sites in London. Now, they are occupying a sixth: the City of London Magistrates’ Court

If mankind survives another century or two, the history books of the future will record one man as the giant of our times

A Tortoise ThinkIn on energy and climate change, Washington, DC. 13 June 2019

Fracking has transformed the US energy industry. But in Britain, where financial benefits do not flow to landowners, it’s attracted fierce opposition from environmentalists. To frack or not to frack? That is the question. Or is it?

Wherever fracking is proposed, it is opposed. Is it time to ask more fundamental questions about our attitudes to energy?

Hydraulic fracturing is a proven way of getting inaccessible fossil fuel. Its high-pressure methods have attracted widespread protest ranging from fear of earthquakes to water pollution. Its supporters argue that it is a vital new source of cheap energy and would make the UK less dependent on imported oil and gas