Sep 15, 2025 | Economics, International Climate Policy
What is Net-Zero Banking Alliance? The Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) was established in April 2021 with 43 member banks and has since tripled to over 120 members across 40 countries [1]. Since its inception, members have made significant contributions to the...
Sep 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Climate change is a leading driver of the global decline in pollinators, a group that goes far beyond bees to include butterflies, moths, hoverflies, birds, and bats [1]. The issue is urgent: pollinators are not only crucial to biodiversity, but are also key players...
Sep 15, 2025 | Climate Justice, International Climate Policy, Technology
As the demand for critical minerals surges globally to support the energy transition, deep sea mining (DSM) emerges as a seemingly promising frontier. Technologies to extract valuable metals such as copper, nickel, cobalt, and rare earth elements from the ocean floor...
Sep 15, 2025 | Biodiversity
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is a landmark international treaty that originated as part of the Rio Conventions during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 [1]. Structure of the CBD The history of the CBD-COP has played a critical...
Sep 15, 2025 | Climate Science
Planting trees is widely recognised as an important form of climate mitigation. Indeed, healthy forests store more carbon than they release into the atmosphere by sequestering (storing) it in tree trunks, root systems, and the soil, and are thus a net carbon sink [1]....
