Economics

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.

France is ahead of the game with eco-projects and green cities – Reims is a leading example.

New Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) watchdog warns of impending tipping points and demands action from UK Government.

How can caregivers move from anxiety to empathy?

We will never tackle the climate emergency until capitalism is replaced with a saner and kinder way of living.

Why don’t we have any proper system of environmental law?

£1.25m payout for vet who blew whistle on animal welfare breaches.

Is 'half-earth socialism' the answer to the global climate crisis?

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).

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.

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?

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