Change Oracle

Almost ten years ago, journalist and author Naomi Klein asked me whether capitalism can be sustainable. I responded by citing a mountain of data arguing that indeed it could be. I now realize, she was being rhetorical and I was being obtuse. What follows are the confessions of a reluctant capitalist and...

Standing ovation after the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was approved at COP15. Image Credit: The Convention on Biological Diversity Just before Christmas, international governments signaled they may be ready to make a dramatic shift away from humanity's penchant for destroying the natural world. On Monday, December 19, COP15, the largest...

The 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, concluded with a historic decision to establish and operationalize a type of climate finance known as the loss and damage fund. The 27th COP was held from the 6th to the 20th of November 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. More...

Over the last three decades, the UN has brought the world together to secure historic international agreements and advance global climate action. The annual climate change meetings are formally known as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC) Conferences of the Parties (COP). These conferences rely on the...

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) sometimes referred to as negative emissions technology (NETs) or simply carbon removal can be divided into two major technological approaches, carbon capture (CC) and direct air capture (DAC). While CC reduces carbon emissions at the point of production (eg the flue gases in smoke stacks), DAC...