Yana S.

• Domestically, how does the U.S. enable a just transition for fossil fuel workers, who number in the millions?


• How do you design clean energy support programs that are not regressive? (Clean energy subsidies have often benefited rich homeowners who can buy solar panels and electric vehicles.)


• Globally, what responsibility does the U.S. have to fund

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Our aim is to help create 21st century economies that are regenerative and distributive by design, so that they can meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet. We call this Doughnut Economics.

Her argument is that economies must be designed so they operate inside this ring, enabling humans and the environment to flourish. The doughnut is premised on three central ideas: the economy should distribute wealth fairly, regenerate the resources that it uses, and allow people to prosper. None of this, Raworth argues, should depend on economic... See more

The report proposes a systems change to address the causes of plastic pollution, starting by reducing problematic and unnecessary plastic use, redesigning the system, products and their packaging and combining these with a market transformation towards circularity in plastics. This can be achieved by accelerating three key shifts – reorient and... See more

But governments, including my own in the UK, have spent substantial amounts on research that, while scientifically interesting, sends very wrong messages. In this Guardian opinion piece, our colleagues Ray Pierrehumbert and Michael Mann argue that geoengineering is like taking aspirin for cancer. It has long been known that geoengineering is not a... See more

As a reminder, we apply global, systems thinking, and justice lenses to our examination of all these sectors.

As for the bar-tailed godwit, they're a highly neat paragon of a different kind of adaptation.

For the curious, tens of thousands of these birds migrate annually from southern Alaska all the way across the Pacific Ocean to eastern Australia and New Zealand—a journey of more than 7 thousand miles, or more than 11 thousand kilometers.

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