Paris Agreement

As he steps down from office, the first Presidential envoy on the climate says that we have made progress, but we’re not moving fast enough.

What kind of thinking goes into engaging in planetary sabotage?

We are precisely halfway through the six-decade cycle that could delineate the crucial years of the climate crisis.

Decades ago, the economist William Nordhaus demonstrated how a “spaceship economy” could thrive if governments made sure that companies paid a price for the environmental damage they caused.

“Earth is a terrible, very bad planet,” he said. “It’s maybe the worst planet in the solar system, and it’s far from the biggest.”