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#SaudiWomenCanDrive; Saudi decree surprising everyone

Photo: Welcome to the driver’s seat. #SaudiWomenMove#SaudiWomenCanDrivepic.twitter.com/oksRbFvLWa — Ford Middle East (@FordMiddleEast) Haifaa Jawad, University of Birmingham In an unexpected move that surprised everyone, including his own people, King Salman…

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#Climate risk: “I would not have invested large sums in the Barents Sea,” says Thina Saltvedt

Author: Anne Jortveit – Politicians do not seem to emphasize the reputation risk posed by oil drilling in the Barents Sea –…

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Keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees: really hard, but not impossible

The window for staving off the worst of climate change is wider than we thought, but still pretty narrow. Tatiana Grozetskaya/Shutterstock.com Dave…

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Norway’s elections put oil in the spotlight – now what?

Author: Peter Erickson, Staff Scientist in the Climate and Energy program in Stockholm Environment Institute’s Seattle office. A new study shows just how…

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Developing countries can prosper without increasing emissions

Meg Argyriou, ClimateWorks Australia One of the ironies of fighting climate change is that developed countries – which have benefited from decades or centuries of industrialisation – are…

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Is Hurricane Harvey a harbinger for Houston’s future?

Photo: ESA / NASA Andrew King, University of Melbourne Over the past week we have seen two major tropical storms devastate different…

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Call to fast-track sustainability action

Author: Ulrike Haugen Leading Nordic corporations and institutions are joining forces to create breakthrough action on climate change within the next 1,000 days.…

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What Trump could learn from the Chinese Ming Dynasty

Disruptive technology, Ming Dynasty-style. Vmenkov/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Dave Frame, Victoria University of Wellington In the early 15th century the Ming Dynasty in…

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Live-Data Electricity Production Map and CO2 Emissions

Electricity and heat production accounts for about 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and is the largest emission sector (source: UN climate panel). The Map below gives you a snapshot,…

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Scandinavia: the radical right meets the mainstream

Photo: Tor Erik Schrøder, NTB SCANPIX Mette Wiggen, University of Leeds A legitimization of radical right-wing ideology is taking place around the world. The…

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