Germany takes over the G20 presidency from China in 2016. This offers an important window of opportunity for fostering a global transition towards sustainable energy. Over the course of the last years, the G20 has started to actively engage in energy issues.
At COP 21 in Paris, African leaders launched the Africa Renewable Energy Initiative aimed at boosting renewable energy development to improve energy access and power economic expansion on the continent.
Whether, how, and when research should leave the laboratory is one of the most controversial topics in the debate around solar climate engineering (also known as solar radiation management or SRM).
Avoiding the unmanageable, managing the unavoidable – even with ambitious climate mitigation, the impacts of climate change will be felt in this century.
In most developing and emerging markets, meeting the rising energy demand is a central precondition for economic growth and social development. In many parts of the world, energy expansion occurs at the expense of water security, undermining sustainable and inclusive growth.
It is common for climate change campaigners to lament the short-term visions of political and cultural imagination, and for environmental philosophers to lament their difficulties in engaging affectively with the lives of