The cultural dimensions of environmental change.
UNEP's Emissions Gap Report 2026, published Wednesday, says avoiding an overshoot of 1.5°C is no longer possible. Its lowest-overshoot path peaks at 1.7–1.8°C mid-century — and demands cuts of 18% by 2030, 45% by 2035 and 69% by 2040.
Super pollutants drive around half of today's warming, yet a first global mapping found they received just $9 billion in 2023 — 1 in every 200 dollars of climate mitigation finance. Methane got 4 per cent of what the Global Methane Pledge target requires.
ECCO, Italy's climate think tank, says the country has met just 15 per cent of its 2030 energy transition targets. Renewables are being added at about 7 gigawatts a year where 10 are needed, emissions rose in 2025, and the electric car fleet stands at roughly a tenth of its 2030 objective.
Concern about environmental change has a social setting as well as a personal one.
Restoring living coral and reducing the threats it faces are parts of the same conservation problem.
New Zealand’s Te Awa Tupua framework changes the legal terms of representation; implementation remains essential.
Products become easier to keep in use when repair and recovery are designed into them from the beginning.
Allowing ecological processes more room still requires choices about land, risk, and responsibility.
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