Your essential guide to climate finance

Key climate finance terms explained by experts.

Sankar Sivarajah, Professor of Technology Management and Circular Economy, Kingston University • conversation
today • ~29 min

UK may be on verge of triggering a ‘positive tipping point’ for tackling climate change

Electric vehicle sales are racing ahead in the UK – but the switch to heat pumps is lagging behind.

Steven R. Smith, Research Impact Fellow, Green Futures Solutions and Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter • conversation
yesterday • ~8 min

Why investing in climate-vulnerable countries makes good business sense

Investing in climate adaptation is one of the smartest financial opportunities of our time

Ali Serim, Advisor for the Centre of Geopolitics of Global Change, ODI Global • conversation
yesterday • ~7 min

‘Completely unexpected’: Antarctic sea ice may be in terminal decline due to rising Southern Ocean salinity

Scientists once thought Antarctica might hold onto its sea ice as the world warmed. No longer.

Alessandro Silvano, NERC Independent Research Fellow in Oceanography, University of Southampton • conversation
June 30, 2025 • ~7 min

What’s at risk for Arctic wildlife if Trump expands oil drilling in the fragile National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska

Caribou, migrating birds and many other types of wildlife rely on this expanse of wetlands and tundra. Humanity and the climate depend on a healthy Arctic, too.

Mariah Meek, Associate Professor of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University • conversation
June 30, 2025 • ~11 min

What Danish climate migration drama, Families Like Ours, gets wrong about rising sea levels

International migration from climate change is the exception, not the norm.

Florian Steig, DPhil Student, Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford • conversation
June 27, 2025 • ~6 min

How huge migrating animal puppets captivate in ways that climate news can’t

Beyond theatres, puppets can affect people in everyday spaces, just as The Herds does.

Matt Smith, Reader in Applied Theatre and Puppetry, University of Portsmouth • conversation
June 26, 2025 • ~5 min

How’s the UK attempt to reach net zero going? There’s good news and bad news

The UK’s latest climate change progress report highlights serious gaps.

Piers Forster, Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds • conversation
June 25, 2025 • ~7 min

How the end of carbon capture could spark a new industrial revolution

The Trump administration is pulling back billions of dollars in industrial development money for carbon capture and storage projects. That may force industries to actually cut emissions instead.

Andres Clarens, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia • conversation
June 23, 2025 • ~10 min

Society needs a systems update to cope with climate crisis – my new film explains why

Earth systems expert James Dyke discusses his documentary, System Update: Rebooting Our Future.

James Dyke, Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter • conversation
June 23, 2025 • ~7 min

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