Nature Climate Change
A monthly journal dedicated to publishing the most significant and cutting-edge research on the nature, underlying causes or impacts of global climate change and its implications for the economy, policy and the world at large.
Forming a climate club
Can we learn from the ancient Greeks how to form coalitions that will mitigate climate change ?
Learning from past climate policy failures
The U.S. almost enacted climate policy ten years ago. Why did it fail and what can be learned from its failure?
Turning science on its head
Putting Indigenous knowledge first in climate change research
The threat of political bargaining to climate mitigation in Brazil
“In exchange for political support, the Brazilian government is signaling landholders to increase deforestation, putting the country’s contribution to the Paris Agreement at risk. The President of Brazil has signed provisionary acts and decrees lowering environmental licensing requirements, suspending the ratification of indigenous lands, reducing the size of protected areas and facilitating land grabbers to obtain the deeds of illegally deforested areas2. This could undermine the success of Brazil’s CO2 emission reductions through control of deforestation in the previous decade…”