Varshini Prakash on Redefining What’s Possible
The Sunrise Movement cofounder shares lessons on how to grow political power
The IMF Climate Coin Revisited
In the novel, Robinson introduces a carbon coin, inspired by a conceptual framework designed by Delton Chen, founder of the Global Carbon Reward Initiative. Today, the need for an IMF Climate Stablecoin has become even more pressing.
Meet the future in this online series about climate change
Most people now accept that to avoid a climate disaster, the world has to get to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Decolonisation: A crucial prerequisite to environmental justice in Africa
All across the African continent a colonial approach of extraction and exploitation continues to plague and paralyse economies. It pushes ecosystems to the edge and puts pan-Africanism on a back burner.
Revolutionary new Swiss ‘water battery’ will be one of Europe’s main renewable sources of energy
A water battery capable of storing electricity equivalent to 400,000 electric car batteries will begin operating in Switzerland next week.
The pumped storage power plant was built into a subterranean cavern in the Swiss canton of Valais. With the ability to store and generate vast quantities of hydroelectric energy, the battery will play an important role in stabilising power supplies in Switzerland and Europe.