Discussions of reducing CO 2 emissions frequently focus on technologies. While technologies are clearly instrumental in transitioning away from fossil fuel–based energy and toward a decarbonized ...

In an increasingly climate-challenged world, it’s more critical than ever for businesses to champion equity and justice while mitigating their environmental impact. Amidst a growing arsenal of guides ...

The new guidance will support the global financial sector in embedding just-transition practices in their operations to ensure a climate transition that leaves no one behind. The new guidance will ...

Socioeconomic challenges and the climate crisis are mutually exacerbating. It is apt that, at a key conference in July 2023, ministers and high-level representatives from government, business and ...

The deployment of a vanadium flow battery at a fire station run by Native Americans illustrates the role that the energy storage technology can play in ensuring that nobody is disadvantaged by the ...

The rapid global expansion of clean energy technologies is central to addressing the climate crisis and achieving sustainable development. Yet, this transformation raises profound questions about ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica Sanders covers climate justice and sustainability from the DMV. This article is more than 2 years old. CAPE TOWN, SOUTH ...

Climate change poses an unprecedented threat to the planet, requiring rapid economic and social transformations that will affect workers and communities and have broader impacts on society.

The 26th annual United Nations climate change conference (COP26) starts Sunday. At its heart is the worldwide effort to formalize steps to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Concerns over equity ...

What do the US, UK and South Africa; the EU; World Economic Forum; the trade unions; civil society and even industry associations have in common? They were all proposing means to enable a ‘just ...

This study was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Gates Ventures, Heising-Simons Foundation, Incite Labs, and Quadrivium Foundation with support from the National Academy of Sciences’ Andrew ...