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The Climate Emergency

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EXCLUSIVE The Great Contraction: How the End of Cheap Money and Energy Will Degrade or Renew Civilisation

, 28 November 2022
Nafeez Ahmed predicted the 2008 financial crash. But it was not resolved and has led to a more profound crisis which will require a major restructuring of the global economy to survive

EXCLUSIVE Sponsor Microsoft Partnering with Egypt's Big Oil Drive to ‘Increase’ Fossil Fuel Investments

, 17 November 2022
Documents reveal Microsoft is working with the Egyptian Government to use COP27 to maximise fossil fuel exploitation – and the owners of the Daily Mail are helping them

The Hidden Climate Bomb: Carbon Footprint of World’s Armies Higher than Russia

, 10 November 2022
A new analysis of undocumented military carbon emissions estimates that they are equivalent to 85% of all carbon emitted by all the world's passenger cars, reports Nafeez Ahmed

Climate Scientists Blind to ‘Existential Threat’ to Humanity, New Research Warns

, 8 November 2022
A new report suggests that, far from being alarmist, the real social and economic dangers of the climate emergency are outside of boundaries of traditional climate science

EXCLUSIVE Trump and Putin’s War on the ‘Green Agenda’

, 27 October 2022
Nafeez Ahmed reveals how the Russian energy giant Gazprom planned to control Ukraine’s gas and backed Donald Trump due to Putin's existential fear of net zero

Britain’s Stark Choice Ahead: Transformation or Collapse

, 19 October 2022
The country is following a familiar pattern of environmental, energy and economic-driven state failure – and if the next government refuses to break with neoliberal orthodoxy, it will only accelerate this downwards trajectory, writes Nafeez Ahmed

EXCLUSIVE Fracking Minister Funded by Fossil Fuel Investor

, 22 September 2022
Nafeez Ahmed investigates Jacob Rees-Mogg's relationship with his former hedge-fund mentor and political donor Robin Crispin Odey

EXCLUSIVE How is Energy Transformation Key to Defeating Vladimir Putin?

, 9 September 2022
A mass roll-out of home insulation, heating efficiency and heat-pumps could rapidly eliminate gas dependence in Europe – and neuter Putin's most potent energy weapon, writes Nafeez Ahmed

‘Truss’ North Sea Drilling Plan Will Need to Prolong Cost of Living Crisis to Buoy Big Oil Profits’

, 6 September 2022
The Government's own data suggests that Britain’s fossil fuel lobbies want to use the cost of living crisis to keep themselves afloat, writes Nafeez Ahmed

Solar and Wind Power Now Deliver ‘More than Double’ the Net Energy Produced by Oil, New Study Finds

, 31 August 2022
New research confirms that renewables have been generating far more net energy than fossil fuels for years, reports Nafeez Ahmed

EXCLUSIVE Rishi Sunak’s Family Profiting from Ties to Oil Giant Shell

, 19 July 2022
Nafeez Ahmed reveals how every one of the four hopefuls battling to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative leader is tied to fossil fuels and climate science denial

The End of the ‘Technological Era’ of Oil, Gas and Coal

, 11 July 2022
Fossil fuels face extinction says Nafeez Ahmed, but we will still need to grapple with the financial chaos of stranded assets, an unravelling geopolitical order, and dangerous climate change

The World Needs ‘Rapid Climate Cooling’ as 2℃ Overshoot Now Likely, New Research Warns

, 29 June 2022
Scientists are warning that the climate situation is so dire that we will not only need to withdraw carbon from the atmosphere but begin exploring controversial solar geoengineering technologies to cool the planet, reports Nafeez Ahmed

Defence Agencies ‘Accelerating’ Risk of ‘Hothouse Earth’, US Military Study Warns

, 23 June 2022
The actions of government military and intelligence agencies are increasing the 'hyperthreat' of climate and environmental change, according to new research

How Replacing Animal Farming with Microbial Proteins Could Feed the World and Save the Planet

, 16 June 2022
As the prevailing global food system heads toward disaster, scientists are discovering exciting opportunities that could make nutritious food cheap, clean and abundant for all without hurting the planet. Nafeez Ahmed reports

Rishi Sunak’s Energy Delusion

, 4 February 2022

EXCLUSIVE How ExxonMobil Captured COP26

, 3 November 2021

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