The Economist's environment correspondent, former São Paulo bureau chief (plus husband, climber, snowboarder) Views my own, though perhaps someone shares some
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What they don’t tell you about climate change. My cover story this week economist.com/news/leaders/2…
A sobering, fantastic cover story by @chowardchoward
Plus a closer look at #rewilding—in Argentina and elsewhere
The renewed presence of endangered animals in Iberá, Argentina is part of a plan to restore the place to its prelapsarian glory econ.st/2DjxOC3
My three-page briefing on updating conservation for the Anthropocene
Some 17% of the world’s land surface could be arranged to protect as many as 67% of the world’s plant species econ.st/2DZkdBb
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The UN’s latest climate meeting ends positively econ.st/2Cf64iq
My musings on #COP24 in Katowice. The summit succeeded in so far as it didn’t end in abject failure economist.com/science-and-te…
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Wed. @whartonknows on @BizRadio132 (10:30A ET):
We look at a new @TheEconomist report on the impact of #emergingmarkets producing higher levels of trash or waste. @janppiotrowski joins us to discuss.
Also wrote a leader on how #IPCC #SR15 on what a 1.5-degree warmer world has produced a mixture of alarm and apathy economist.com/leaders/2018/1…
This week I pore over the #IPCC #SR15. Makes for a sobering read, even if presents no truly new science economist.com/science-and-te…
This week we publish my ten-page special report on global waste management. Hopefully not a load of rubbish economist.com/special-report…
Local government v global warming. My look at how much subnational climate efforts stack up economist.com/international/…
This week I looked Polish contemporary art. And what Poland’s rightward turn means for it economist.com/node/21749699
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The world is losing the war against climate change, and rising energy demand is poised to make it hotter still. Our cover this week econ.st/2ABMwGo
Lastly, a sizzling science piece on wildfire forecasting by Ben Sutherland economist.com/science-and-te…
And a thoughtful piece by @ikahloon on welcome signs of Republicans’ warming to climate economist.com/united-states/…
Plus a fantastic briefing from @HenryTricks on the difficulty of kicking India’s coal habit economist.com/briefing/2018/…
My cover leader this week: the world is losing the war against climate change economist.com/leaders/2018/0…
This week I looked at science & statistics of heat waves. For those partial to cold like myself, not brilliant news economist.com/science-and-te…
This week I looked at the price of negative (emissions) thinking. Just possibly, not as high as you might think economist.com/science-and-te…
Carbonated? Markets may be underpricing climate-change risk. My piece this week economist.com/finance-and-ec…
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Tune in to @BBCRadio4's The Briefing Room now - @ImperialCiveng's Prof Chris Cheeseman @SabinePahl @janppiotrowski @RobOpsomer to discuss the problems with #plastic#plasticpollution | @DAaronovitch |
bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zt3n…
