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ByClimate change
The vast majority of scientists agree that human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels that release greenhouse gases, are now the main driving force behind climate change, which is raising global temperatures and affecting weather patterns. Here you can find the New Statesman’s expert coverage on climate change as well as our analysis on activism, climate justice and the overall crisis.
“Don’t say climate change”
France, Spain and England are burning. Where is the climate movement to resist this catastrophe?
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Supporting North Sea drilling is an extremist position
The world is burning, but right-wing parties want to add fuel to the flames
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Europe’s age of fire
Is it finally time to panic?
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Heatwaves make a majority of Brits more fearful for the future
Even a third of Reform voters say recent temperatures make them more anxious about climate change
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Only a Burnham-Streeting alliance can save Labour
It’s not impossible
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Exclusive: Miliband’s clean jobs plan wins over the unions
The Energy Secretary’s plan has been backed by some of net zero’s loudest critics in the trade union movement
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Ian McEwan and fiction’s problem with climate change
In What We Can Know, Britain has sunk beneath the waves – but literature remains buoyant
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A new force is stirring on the left
Eco-populism is coming for the Labour Party.
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Mike Berners-Lee: “Being a billionaire can make people go nuts”
The environmentalist on the politics of climate in an age of deceit.
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David Attenborough at 99: “Life will almost certainly find a way”
The broadcaster and biologist speaks to the New Statesman about the mystery of the deep seas.
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Dale Vince: “Trump has given credibility to the incredible”
The eco-entrepreneur on the US president, why Heathrow doesn’t need a third runway, and keeping up with Ed Miliband.
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Joshua Oppenheimer’s surreal apocalyptic musical The End
This strange film, starring Tilda Swinton, satirises our collective delusion in the face of the climate crisis.
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Will Labour fight for net zero?
Reform and the Tories have sharpened the government’s green dilemmas.
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Labour’s airport ambitions won’t chart a path to green growth
The expansion of Heathrow and Gatwick may not have the desired economic effect.
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Ed Miliband’s net zero bind
The targets of his department will keep running into Labour’s economic growth aspirations.
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The insurance industry is exacerbating the climate crisis
The sector once aimed to stabilise the economy, but its continued insurance of fossil fuel companies risks further volatility.
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Reform is very wrong about net zero
Richard Tice’s war on renewables would make energy more expensive, not less.
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It’s time for climate populism
As politics turns against net zero, we need to mobilise a genuine mass movement against ecological catastrophe.
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Will the government stop Rosebank?
Net zero and economic growth are not always compatible aspirations.
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