Last year, the world celebrated the Paris climate deal. Less than a year later, elation has turned into depression. Who will assume leadership now?
Hillary Clinton has put out an enormous number of climate change policy proposals. She may not be able to implement very many of them.
Politics matter. Climate change policies, such as carbon levies and emissions trading, need to reflect political conditions on the ground.
Global warming has heightened the probability of catastrophic natural disasters, challenging the risk management capability of governments.
Issues like water governance and cross-border coordination of energy supply are likely to become much more thorny diplomatic exercises to deal with.
When delegates from nearly 200 countries convened in Paris in late November 2015, many were hopeful about the COP21. It could be a watershed moment when the world would unite and finally put forth a plan to combat climate change.
A landmark collaboration between the UK's Energy Africa initiative and America's Power Africa campaign has been launched to bring clean electricity to millions of people across the African continent.
As the 21st Conference of Parties begins this week in Paris, for the first time in years, the prospect for serious, substantive international progress on climate issues is not bleak.
The move to a green-based economy would require massive restructuring and the tackling of vested interests that profit from the current set up. But it is no more radical than the break-neck development China pursued over the last two decades.
In the U.S., any discussion involving climate change tends to deteriorate into an argument between two factions—those who feel that climate change is a very real threat to the planet, and those who say it is nothing but a scare tactic.
China may be on its way to being a hybrid leader that can avoid overseas adventurism as it tries to rapidly abandon fossil fuels and modernize its unstable neighbors’ economies.
