Economics and policy

The rise of climate sceptics to new prime minister Liz Truss’s cabinet has sparked fear that climate action will be scaled back.

The Ecologist today publishes Strategy 2023-6 promising a greater focus on the impacts of the fossil fuel economy - and a vision of a regenerative future.

Fossil fuel dependency is driving up the cost of living.

Home installations across Britain actually fell by more than 50 percent in the first half of 2022.

English cities allow private vehicles - that go unused for 95 percent of the time - to dominate their public spaces.

Green gentrification is a looming crisis - we must pay attention to who profits from, and who is exploited by, the built environment system.

We need a watertight windfall tax to stop rebound on climate action.

Car brands are changing the way they power their vehicles - now it's time for them to change how they use animals in the manufacturing process.

Why and how we must welcome human migration in a warming world. Part 2 of 2.

James Lovelock will be for ever known for his Gaia theory - a huge contribution to how we as humans understand and relate to the biosphere.

We need a new economics that centres our dependence on the environment to understand the coming instability of climate breakdown.

Identity politics and culture wars sit at the heart of climate denial.

Campaigners hail legal victory in challenge over UK Government's Net Zero strategy.

Two-weeks increase in food billionaires’ wealth is enough to fully fund East Africa hunger crisis response.

Just transition needed ‘at pace’ amid cost of living crisis, report says.