This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter The EU's renewed opening to international carbon credits has moved, within four months, from ...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter The European Commission has proposed auctioning 250 million additional EU Emissions Trad...
In orbit, nothing is wasted. Every gram of material loaded before launch has a weight, a cost and an already planned second life. On the International Space Station, most of the water – includ...
There is one word that Nepal’s Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal has stopped using, replaced by a different one. The first is aid. The second is compensation. The speech refers to the disast...
How can we all enjoy comfortable temperatures in our homes at a fair, affordable price? Locally produced renewable heating and cooling networks fight energy poverty, increase comfort, make our citie...
Marine Cornelis is Digital Ambassador of the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW), Executive Director and founder of Next Energy Consumer, an organisation dedicated to putting citizens at the he...
Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) are multiplying across Europe, yet most are still highly dependent on volunteer-based work. One way to support the spreading and development of the energy communi...
In Argentine school maps, coloured in the national colours, Antarctica appears marked by a white triangle stretching from Ushuaia to the South Pole. Chilean maps show another triangle, overlapping t...
As predicted since the 19th century, the planet is undergoing a dramatic rise in global temperature. The last 10 years have been the hottest ever recorded in history. However, the term “global...
At the end of November 2025, as the COP30 UN climate negotiations closed in Belém, the most notable absentee was the delegation of the United States – about to formally withdraw from th...
Richard Heinberg, one of the most important American environmental thinkers of this century, died on Sunday, July 19, at the age of 75, from pancreatic cancer diagnosed just two weeks earlier. It wa...
Water is the invisible infrastructure behind all beverages. We hardly ever see it, as we prefer to look at the colour of a wine, the foam on a beer, the design of a label, the transparency of a bott...
In contemporary Western society, the ritual and spiritual dimension of the act of drinking is often reduced to mere material consumption or, at best, hedonism. And yet, our human history is peppered...
In recent years, the effects of weather and climate phenomena in Latin America and the Caribbean have rippled across the region—from the Andes to Patagonia, from cities to coastal towns—...
The process of structuring European sustainability reporting has recently taken a decisive step forward: on June 3, the public consultation phase on the simplified version of the ESRS reporting stan...
“One of the most consequential dimensions of AI that remains comparatively under-examined is its environmental footprint and the justice implications that follow.” This is how the latest...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter During the week of May 18 to May 23, I was in Singapore for two of the most important carbon ...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter The question of whether transition credits constitute a viable tool for accelerating coal pha...
In the European Middle Ages, the term “serfdom” referred to a legally defined status that fell somewhere between slavery (servus) and free man, in that the individual was not considered ...
The first Chinese character I ever learnt to write was tiān 天, which means “sky” or “heaven”. Perhaps because it’s easy to remember. It is made up of the charac...