Economics and policy

We should be able to access our daily needs - home, work, education, care, shopping, socialising - within a 15-minute walk or bike ride.

Widespread economic growth has required immense consumption of the planet’s resources, particularly in the form of fossil fuel. So what is the alternative?

The best approach to reducing consumers’ exposure to volatile prices is to cut demand for fossil fuels, confirms official Climate Change Committee.

A review of Sam Moore and Alex Roberts, The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right (Polity, £14.99).

Environmental charity WWF slams the UK Government's spending plans as missed opportunity to meet COP26 promises.

The race to act on climate breakdown and ecological crisis is against time - rather than each other. Finland, though, is definitely way ahead of the UK.

Teaching children about nature, and about how our economies meet our needs and impact on nature, is now essential.

Tougher rules on fossil fuel investments could help avert economic disaster.

Majority of influential companies and financial institutions doing little or nothing on deforestation - undermining global climate targets.

Billionaires should focus their money on climate change rather than space travel, says public.

'Degrowth' is central to the reversing of flows of natural resources from the global south to the global north.

The failure of the COP26 climate conference reminds us that capitalism is the driver of ecological breakdown. But what does that mean for environmental activists?

Coronavirus was the result of capital's incursion into nature - and will have a profound impact on capitalism itself. Omicron shows the crisis is far from over.

Now is the time to fundamentally transform how our societies produce and distribute energy.

The COP26 conference has failed to usher in a new era where capital is constrained to prevent catastrophic climate breakdown.