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Consumption-based targets in Sweden: a blueprint for rapid transition?What are consumption-based targets? And how did Sweden become the first nation to table such an idea with support from all political parties? The story...
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Consumption-based targets in Sweden: a blueprint for rapid transition?What are consumption-based targets? And how did Sweden become the first nation to table such an idea with support from all political parties? The story...
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COP15: lion or lamb, phoenix or dodo?“Biodiversity is fundamental to human well-being and a healthy planet, and economic prosperity for all people. Including for living well in balance and in...
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Coronavirus: we’re in a real-time laboratory of a more sustainable urban futureA pause has been forced on urban life. Quiet roads, empty skies, deserted high streets and parks, closed cinemas, cafés and museums – a break in the...
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COVID-19 – social distancing reminds us to connect‘On days when the sky is grey, the sun has not disappeared forever.’ – Arnaud Desjardin The COVID-19 outbreak has put the UK, and indeed many parts...
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Covid-19 and the entelechy of rapid transitionLast year governments around the world declared a ‘climate emergency’ and then did pretty much nothing to act as if it is one. Now here’s Covid-19,...
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Driving cars out of our citiesGreat cities set the tone for modern living and a new campaign for Car Free Megacities is aiming to improve the music of our urban streets as well as...
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Earth Overshoot Day 2022Today is officially Earth Overshoot Day 2022, the date when humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year. We...
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Economic prospects for 2021: the FT surveyEach year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of economic analysts. Andrew Simms from Rapid...
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Economic prospects in 2022: the New Weather Institute in the Financial Times surveyEach year the Financial Times polls a group of economic analysts on what they think the next year holds in store for the UK. The New Weather Institute, a...