Fri, Dec 25 2020

For a century, critics of all political stripes have challenged the role of science in society. Repairing distrust today requires confronting those arguments head on. Science is under fire as never before in the United States. Even amid the…

BRUSSELS — After an all-night negotiating session, European Union leaders agreed on Friday morning to cut net carbon emissions by 55 percent in the next decade from levels measured in 1990, overcoming the concerns of nations still heavily…

It is far from the norm for climate experts to proffer what could be termed, all things considered, fairly positive news. But then 2020 hasn't exactly been a normal year. As has been well documented, 2020 is expected to see an unprecedented…

To meet the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F), greenhouse gas emissions must reach net-zero by mid-century. Achieving this will not only require reducing existing emissions, but also removing…

For the ninth year in a row, SEI has been ranked among the top think tanks in the world working on environment policy and practice. The index is based on a survey of thousands of journalists, policy-makers, donors and topic and regional specialists…