How Fashion Can Go Green, Despite Rising Climate Impact | Opinion
Despite loud calls to make the fashion industry more sustainable—and ambitious commitments from brands—the sector’s climate impact just hit record highs, jumping over 7 percent from the year prior. After several years of flat—and even declining—environmental impact for the fashion industry, this sudden spike is a true wake-up call. Fashion’s climate footprint already drives a […]
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Why the Plastic Treaty Talks Now Underway Are a Chance for Climate Action
It was the images of plastic waste clogging rivers, covering shorelines and killing marine wildlife that helped to galvanize world leaders three years ago to start work on a global treaty to reduce the glut of plastics. But there is also a less visible form of pollution from plastics taking a toll on our atmosphere—the […]
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Panama Puts Focus on Nature’s Role in Solving the Climate Crisis
Panama’s Environment Minister Juan Carlos Navarro describes himself as “a retired politician.” But after a long political career, including two terms as mayor of Panama City, old habits die hard. When describing his country’s economics, Navarro drew on a political adage coined by campaign strategist James Carville. “To paraphrase Carville, it’s about nature, stupid,” Navarro […]
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What Pope Leo XIV Has Said About Climate Change
Robert Prevost, newly named Pope Leo XIV, has previously expressed his position on climate change, hurtling the thorny issue back into the spotlight amid his Thursday election. Newsweek reached out to the Vatican via email for comment. Why It Matters Leo, 69, became the first American pope selected by the Catholic Church. He was a […]
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To President-Elect Donald Trump: The Paris Climate Deal Is Good for Business | Opinion
As President-elect Donald Trump‘s transition team prepares executive orders to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, scientists confirm that 2024 is not only the hottest year on record but the first year to exceed the Paris agreement threshold, a global pledge by 195 nations to work to keep warming under 1.5 degrees. Withdrawing from the […]
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Chinese Methane Emissions Are Risking Climate Disaster | Opinion
As climate diplomats from 200 countries gather for the annual United Nations climate negotiations beginning Monday, fast-rising global temperatures over the last year have reached 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That’s the very limit the 2015 Paris climate agreement pledged to avoid. This super heating is already driving devastating climate impacts around the world, […]
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