From Safer Streets to Controversy and Conspiracy Published: 19 March 2024 Climate Disinformation Fellowship In a small Canadian town, bicycle infrastructure divides neighbors as conspiracy theories and misinformation take hold. Can this once tight-knit community come together again? An investigation into how disinformation can derail climate action at the local level. Silvie Harder
A Fossil Fuel Miseducation Published: 19 March 2024 Climate Disinformation Fellowship In Illinois, a fossil fuel-funded group is infiltrating schools, promoting oil careers to kids. But in a state going green, advocates say they're selling students a false future. An investigation into the industry's pipeline to the classroom. Keerti Gopal
Climate pragmatism or Faustian bargain? What the new US climate law does—and where it fails Published: 19 August 2022 Analysis The Inflation Reduction Act is seen as an expression of climate pragmatism by some and a Faustian bargain with the fossil fuel industry by others. What exactly is it? Liane Schalatek
Biden's climate summit brings some ambition boost but no true U.S. climate leadership Published: 3 May 2021 Analysis With the two-day Biden leaders' summit on climate attended by 40 countries, the United States has returned to the international stage of climate diplomacy. Whether the increased ambition of new climate action pledges via video made by several core countries can be implemented in a binding manner, however, remains an open question - not only, but also including in the United States. An urgently needed signal that the Biden administration is prepared to take on a leadership role in international climate finance in the run-up to COP 26, however, was missing in action. Liane Schalatek
A Process on the Brink of Collapse Confronts a World on the Move Published: 20 December 2019 Analysis The governments gathered in Madrid failed to embrace the urgent need for progress towards climate justice and higher ambitions. Sebastien Duyck, Erika Lennon
Amid Climate Crisis, Will Governments Deliver Ambitious Climate Action in Madrid? Published: 22 November 2019 Background Against the backdrop of increasing climate destruction and mass mobilizations calling for climate leadership, COP-25 must deliver urgent, rights-based climate action. Erika Lennon, Sebastien Duyck
Climate Lawsuits Published: 6 September 2019 Transatlantic Media Fellowship Will Big Oil pay for lying about climate change? Christine Daum-Farber
Is Nationalization an Answer to Climate Change? Published: 12 December 2018 Transatlantic Media Fellowship What’s unique about Labour’s nationalization plans with regard to energy is that they would make Britain the first country to nationalize its power sector with the express intention of weaning it off fossil fuels and with an eye toward decarbonizing the economy. Kate Aronoff
What's at stake for COP 24? Published: 27 November 2018 Briefing The Katowice UN Climate Change Conference will take place in Katowice from the 3rd till the 14th of December 2018. Don Lehr
Life After Coal Published: 30 November 2017 Transatlantic Media Fellowship In "Germany’s Appalachia," the last coal mine is closing. Can renewable energy and technology replace a quietly disappearing industry? Amelia Urry
Living with the Flood Published: 29 November 2017 Transatlantic Media Fellowship Flooded streets, drifting cars: That’s normalcy for the citizens of Norfolk. The city wants to better protect its residents. But they don't always cooperate. Alexandra Endres
Towards Electric Vehicles – Different Approaches in US Cities Published: 28 November 2017 Series This two part series analyzes electric mobility in Washington, DC and Detroit. Tina Sänger
Modern Mobility in Washington, DC Published: 27 November 2017 Article How is Washington, DC embracing modern mobility and cleaner air? Part of a two part series assessing electric mobility in the US & Germany. Tina Sänger
“We will not drown, we are here to fight”: An assessment of the Fiji COP 23 in Bonn Published: 23 November 2017 In depth analysis COP 23 was one COP in two zones: The Bula zone was the site of the official negotiations - with little relevance to what happens in the real world. The Bonn zone hosted dozens of civil society kiosks and hundreds of events searching for real solutions. Liane Schalatek, Lili Fuhr, Don Lehr
In Bonn & Beyond, Gender-Responsive Climate Finance Is More Than Numbers Published: 1 November 2017 Commentary What does a normative framing and a push for the gender-responsiveness of climate finance mean for the global climate finance architecture and the Green Climate Fund? A set of four new information briefs as part of an annual update of the Climate Finance Fundamentals (CFF) briefing series explores this relationship. Liane Schalatek
Beyond Paris: avoiding the trap of carbon metrics Published: 11 February 2016 Instead of changing our economic system to make it fit within the natural limits of the planet, we are redefining nature so that it fits within the economic system. Lili Fuhr, Camila Moreno, Daniel Speich Chassé
Climate change goes to court Published: 8 February 2016 Some twenty-four years after the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a lot has been done to advance climate change law, both internationally and in Germany and the European Union. However, neither international law nor national law have been able to achieve true progress. Global emissions continue to rise, and the anticipated impacts of climate change are now becoming reality. Dr. Roda Verheyen
The Carbon Levy Project Published: 28 January 2016 More than two thirds of anthropogenic GHG emissions are caused by only 90 companies. These oil, coal and gas companies are reaping exorbitant profits and are getting huge government subsidies. It’s time to make them pay a levy for the loss and damage they cause. A proposal from the Climate Justice Programme (CJP).
Climate Change Denial—a thing of the past? Published: 27 January 2016 The history of climate policy is also one of the massive sway of the energy industry lobby. More recently, however, that lobby is having to surrender its forts- is dirty business losing its sway on politics? Hans Verolme
COP 21 and the Paris Agreement: A Force Awakened Published: 15 December 2015 Globally, political leaders are lauding the acceptance of the global and legally binding Paris Agreement on Climate Change at COP 21 as a historical moment. It achieves a goal long believed unattainable. However, judged against the enormity of the challenge and the needs and pressure from people on the ground demanding a global deal anchored in climate justice (“system change, not climate change!”), the Paris Agreement can only be called a collective failure and disappointment. Read a critical assessment by hbs colleagues from around the world. Lili Fuhr, Liane Schalatek, Maureen Santos, Hans JH Verolme, Radostina Primova , Damjan Bogunovic