Economics and policy

Humanity faces existential choices - but is still to decide how to make fair decisions.

Climate catastrophe: current global governance is not good enough.

The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) survey of global risks revealed that the cost crisis has overtaken the failure to act on climate change as the biggest concern.

The Committee on Climate Change is supposed to hold the UK Government's feet to the fire. Here is how it is failing.

What degrowth thinkers can learn from free market economist Friedrich Hayek and the father of public relations, Edward Bernays.

Private energy firms have extracted huge profits while customers’ bills have skyrocketed. And Labour’s plans to intervene will be too little, too late.

Christmas, the climate crisis and the cost-of-living crisis. And a lesson or two from Charles Dickens.

Water demand is a major blind spot on the road to net zero.

UK Government ‘going backwards’ on green investment, says CBI chief Danker.

Ecosocialism is posited as a solution of appropriate ambition to prevent breakdown. But what is ecosocialism? Is it ecological? And do we all have to be socialist now?

Faced with a planetary emergency, is deep ecological transformation, a ‘megamorphosis’ of modern society, still a possibility?

The rise of the Labour party and the birth of a 'green consciousness'.

UK urged to quit treaty that ‘puts fossil fuel interests before climate action’.

World heading for ‘climate catastrophe’ as countries’ plans fail to deliver – UN.

Rishi Sunak has been selected by the Tory party to become the next prime minister. Let's hope he u-turns on the environment.