Economics

Pakistan’s floods are a result of colonialism and climate breakdown. Responsibility lies with the British Empire. We need climate reparations.

Pakistan is suffering the worst floods in history as a result of climate breakdown. We must change how we relate to nature to prevent further calamities.

Francia Márquez, Colombia’s first black vice president, brings hope for the country's marginalised communities.

The climate emergency is a lived reality across the Global South - we must have action not words from COP27.

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.

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.

As science tells us more about the sentience of pigs, should it be used to get them out of laboratories?

The installation of home insulation measures 'fell off a cliff' a decade ago, the government's own climate advisors state.

Badly insulated homes costing poor families extra £250 a year, say councils.

Ensuring women have equal rights to inheritance and property ownership is key to tackling climate breakdown.

A Canadian pension fund is behind Bristol’s planned airport expansion: activists must join forces and take the fight to the largest private investor in European airports.

New study finds cutting greenhouse gas emissions to net zero will save significant damage to the UK economy.