Climate
In the face of the climate crisis, we must be courageous; we must retain hope that our climate solutions will succeed. In this section, we consider current adaptation and mitigation strategies that could help us halt and reverse catastrophe. Our journalists interview activists and those on the frontlines of climate change to learn how people are coping with, and preparing for, extreme weather events and changing rainfall patterns. We also cover the breadth of climate justice activism happening across the globe.
How will the Global South pay for climate change damage?
Using market mechanisms will just push the burden onto those least responsible, say Harpreet Kaur Paul and Harjeet Singh.
What if...we reduced carbon emissions to zero by 2025?
Hazel Healy sketches out a radical scenario of carbon cold-turkey.
Are oil companies losing their social license?
As opposition to fossil-fuel sponsorship grows, arts institutions funded by big oil are looking increasingly out of touch. Danny Chivers reports.
School students escalate call for political action on climate crisis
On March 15, climate strikes took place in more than 100 countries. New Internationalist talked to students in Oxford who are among the hundreds of thousands of young people joining a snowballing global youth movement that's demanding immediate action on climate breakdown.
A Green New Deal for the US and beyond
Can this much lauded proposal help advance internationalist aims? Mark Engler argues that it could.
Don’t privatize forests, educate the people
In rural Nigeria, religious leaders think sinful behaviour is to blame for climate change, writes Adesuwa Ero.
Extinction Rebellion – in or out?
As climate talks kick off in Poland, five campaigners give their take on the UK’s newest direct-action network.
COP24: Who are these UN climate meetings for?
Nick Dowson highlights the issues up for debate, obstacles to negotiations and where all this leaves the majority world.
Modern life is rubbish
Dinyar Godrej argues that consumption patterns in a wasteful society add up to much more than the sum of individual actions.
COP14: Corporate power and declining biodiversity
Nele Marien explains the scale and cost of financial lobbying against biodiversity efforts.
London's climate rebellion surges on
Tobi Thomas reports on the climax to last week’s wave of mass action led by the now global Extinction Rebellion movement.
For climate action, ‘mass civil disobedience’ is the only way
New Internationalist witnesses the launch of a bold environmentalist campaign: Extinction Rebellion.
From the frontlines of climate change resistance
Hoda Baraka on the climate action movements working to end fossil fuel extraction.
The cost of mining in Latin America
Global justice campaigners Marienna Pope-Weidemann and Sebastian Ordoñez Muñoz explain why mining is a threat to our climate change goals.
Editor’s letter: deep disconnect
Co-editor Dinyar Godrej pens an opening letter for the latest magazine: 'The dirt on waste'
Four #lifehacks to prevent the apocalypse
Tom Whyman gives us totally normal, practical ways we can undo the climate meltdown
The carbon bubble
Yohann Koshy looks at the impending catastrophe linking the stock market to climate change.
If we all became vegan tomorrow
The Guardian repeats the myth that becoming vegan is the ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth. Chris Saltmarsh and Harpreet Kaur Paul disagree.
Rising tide of court cases threatens Shell’s polluting business model
It is illegal to set fire to someone’s house, Sara Shaw and Freek Bersch write.
Climate justice from below for climate harms
The Bonn Climate Change Conference shows how top down processes will not bring about just solutions for the majority world, Harpreet Kaur Paul writes.
Landmark verdict gives Arctic oil green light
But ‘Trial of the Century’ also cements climate protections, reports Ragnhild Freng Dale.
Plan for Australia’s largest coal mine faces struggle
Australia’s Adani mine must be stopped, argue Tom Anderson and Eliza Egret.
We need to talk more about Storm Ophelia
The West is not learning its lessons fast enough, says Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik.
Why natural disasters are not natural
Storms do not discriminate, but societies do, argues Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik.
Environmentalists are victors, not victims
Environmental defenders are dying, but winning important fights, writes Fran Lambrick.
Newsweek’s climate change hypocrisy
The magazine’s climate change warning stinks of hypocrisy, writes Leo Barasi.-
The People vs Arctic Oil
Environmental groups are suing the Norwegian government after it handed out new licences to drill in the Arctic for the first time in 20 years. 
Making waves: Prafulla Samantara
Indian land rights activist Prafulla Samantara talks to Veronique Mistiaen.
Climate Con: why a new global deal on aviation emissions is really bad news
A new climate deal is expected to be agreed upon soon by the International Civil Aviation Organization, is a cop-out, writes Oscar Reyes.
The role of climate change in the Syria crisis: how the media got it wrong
Alex Randall argues that the conclusions drawn were the wrong ones.
Cowspiracy: stampeding in the wrong direction?
There’s much to admire in the documentary but its political framing and a major error threaten to undermine its message, writes Danny Chivers.
Switching on to energy democracy
Popular participation, social ideals and ecological sustainability are key attributes of sustainable systems, Claire Fauset writes.
2016: Time to take the leap
Naomi Klein and her team speak to Marienna Pope-Weidemann about the significance of The Leap Manifesto.
21st century COP out
A brief illustrated history of the climate negotiations by cartoonist Kate Evans.
