Climate & Energy

Black and Hispanic people breathe more polluted air and drink dirtier water. Now, one of Los Angeles’ poorest neighborhoods is standing up against “environmental racism.”

In order to tell the real story of public climate finance flows more details than just the quantity of finance is needed. Normative and qualitative criteria are necessary to complete the picture.

The Katowice UN Climate Change Conference will take place in Katowice from the 3rd till the 14th of December 2018. 

It’s “back to the future” for the Green Climate Fund after its most recent board meeting in Bahrain. After the July disastrous meeting, this outcome sends a reassuring signal that the GCF can deliver on its core functions before COP 24.

On October 4th, The Heinrich Böll Foundation North America and Georgetown University's Center for German and European Studies invite you to a conference on political activism in the US and Europe.

Some fishermen worry that wind farms will disrupt fisheries and make it even harder to make a living. But European wind farm developers say their industry can coexist with fishing. 

For a possible future vision of New England, Media Fellow Chris Bentley looked to a part of the U.K. that's staking its economic recovery on offshore wind.

After economic crisis and years of depression, Detroit is finding its way back to being the leading city in car production and motor-related innovation with its development of electric vehicles. But the dream of a new resurrection contains risks that blind policymakers. Part of a four part series assessing electric mobility in the US & Germany.