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Five Times Faster by Simon Sharpe review – a radical but realistic path to net zero emissions

A former civil servant makes a persuasive case for dropping economy-wide emissions targets and focusing on tipping points where green technologies become affordable.

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Corona, climate, chronic emergency; what would nature do?

A bromide-laden view of the threats to the planet, by Ruth DeFries, is less convincing than Andreas Malm's call for an urgent reform of capitalism.

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Tim Flannery: We need to talk to our kids about the climate crisis. But courage fails me when I look at my son

if we fail to explain the state of the world we have created, and our role in helping create it, I greatly fear that some in the next generation will grow into very angry young people indeed.

Christiana Figueres on the climate emergency: ‘This is the decade and we are the generation’
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Christiana Figueres on the climate emergency: ‘This is the decade and we are the generation’

The leader of the 2015 Paris accord talks about her new book, The Future We Choose, and why it’s crunch time for humanity
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