Carolyn Whelan
“Plastic is a design failure, a band-aid. It has to go,” said Cyrill Gutsch, CEO of Parley Mothership, on the closing day of the SDG Action Zone. To identify concrete carbon-cutting actions, the 4-hour micro-panel stretched beyond
Katherine Friedrich
Energy access is key to improving the well-being of people who are experiencing economic hardship, according to this week’s speakers at the United Nations High-Level Dialogue on Energy and the Energy Action Days. So far, the transition to
Katherine Friedrich
Cities are grappling with how to address the growing impacts of climate change. Two panels at Climate Week NYC took a broad view of what those impacts are and urged cities to abandon their siloed mindset about
Carolyn Whelan
When it comes to cutting carbon, today’s Climate Week talks showed that creativity can come from unlikely places. Take South Africa’s Western Cape. Along with its stunning scenery come cataclysmic climate impacts, owing to the
Carolyn Whelan
Women and young people were vocal and visible at today’s Climate Week sessions, particularly those on renewable energy and agriculture. Noteworthy among today’s many meetings was The Urban Energy Transition: Powering Green and Just Cities for
Souwie Buis
This is the question with which a group of experts from across the continent grappled today at a panel discussion organised by Brookings Global and the UN University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA). Fatima Denton, Director at UNU-INRA
Andrew Cave
Google, the first company to be carbon-neutral throughout its entire operating history, now wants to go a stage further, committing to becoming totally carbon-free in all its operations by 2030 and acting as a beacon
Carolyn Whelan
As an icon of the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s, the famous picture of Che Guevara in a beret has proved remarkably durable. Less familiar today, though created around the same time by the vanguard
Driving Change
Away from the space race, a second contest was under way in the 1960s: a battle to pioneer super-fast passenger aircraft operating at velocities in excess of the speed of sound. Concorde, a collaboration between
Driving Change
Russia took an early lead in the ‘space race’ with its ‘Sputnik moment’ in 1957, the first successful launch of an earth-orbiting artificial satellite. Four years later, Yuri Gagarin became the first astronaut to journey
