Equipped with alarming new reports and data on the accelerating climate crisis, the conference punted decisive action into 2022.
Climate Crisis
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
At U.N. Climate Talks, What Mattered Most Went Unsaid
A Wall Street–led energy transition; punitive credit conditions for developing countries; sustained oil and gas drilling
Posted inTAP
Our Global Accords: The Good, the Bad, the Meh, and the Huh?
Today on TAP: The global corporate minimum tax was a real achievement. The Glasgow accord was mainly a ‘Huh?’
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Connecting Climate Goals to Industrial Goals
Biden’s Green Steel Deal with the EU is a model for future progress—and it beats anything that came out of Glasgow.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Strikes Beyond the Barricades at COP26
A wave of strikes in Glasgow exposes the need to center workers in climate policy.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Young Climate Activists Fund Global South Projects
The West hasn’t lived up to climate financing pledges for developing countries, so young people raise funds in their own countries to solve local problems.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
A Nuclear Cop-Out in Glasgow
If the international community can’t make headway on nuclear energy goals at COP26, when, if ever, is it going to happen?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Talking Tariffs and Carbon Emissions
A mechanism designed to induce countries to adopt green technologies is fueling international resistance instead.
Posted inAmerica and the World
What to Do When You Have 20 Million Gig Workers in the Coal Industry
Just transitions for India’s coal communities will be painfully difficult.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Manchin Could Score Carbon Capture Subsidies to Prop Up Coal
In September, Joe Manchin was told carbon capture would need heavy federal subsidies to keep coal running in West Virginia. Now, a supercharged tax credit is in Build Back Better.
