A consortium of over 160 firms, with net assets of more than USD70 trillion, are now members of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), a COP26 initiative set up under the leadership of former...
Surviving Climate Chaos is being published into a new world of lethal fires, floods and record-breaking temperatures, while the IPCC warns us that we are in the last decade before Arctic, oceanic and...
With a large number of Britons “staycationing” in the UK due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there is a greater emphasis on the recreational value of England’s rivers. From canoeing to fishing,...
Whose work, in your field, has inspired you most? Though much of my scholarship is historically grounded, I was not trained as a historian. I admire historians who can put archival texts into conversation...
Syukuro Manabe explains how mountains affect the Earth’s climate (1972 photo, courtesy of NOAA/GFDL) Climate scientist Syukuro Manabe shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions...
This book originated in a conversation over coffee between the two editors. The result was a decision to ask Cambridge University Press whether they would be willing to publish a book whose theme...
The climate movement has long been divided over how to campaign, and who to target, in their activism. This is because climate change is a diffuse, and complex problem that involves all levels of governance:...
Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September 2020, President Xi Jinping declared that China would peak its carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. ...
We often tend to conceive populism and constitutionalism as being antithetical but the relationship between them should not be seen in terms of mutual exclusion and perfect opposition. Indeed, it is possible...
The complex systems of life, mind and society are rich in information, and have to maintain themselves actively against entropy and chaos or be reduced to uniform ash.
In January 2021, the UK Government refused to grant full diplomatic status to the European Union Delegation in London, sparking a diplomatic row between the EU and UK. Josep Borrell, the EU’s High...
1.What piece of advice would you give yourself when starting out on this project? This is advice I would give any person writing non-fiction: use a citation manager. I ended up doing all my citations...