Winners of the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize typically have several things in common. They look at the big challenges confronting...
Restoring our planet
What’s Warmer, Wetter, and Greener? / Tero Mustonen
(SPOILER ALERT: THE ARCTIC—AND IT SHOULDN’T BE!) The Arctic is warming at least twice as fast as anywhere else on the planet. All the vital...
Blot Out the Sun? / Luke Iseman & Andrew Song
Luke Iseman and Andrew Song explain how they think they can cool the planet. Supposedly, Herodotus wrote that when the Greeks were told that the...
Is Uber Really More Valuable than the Planet?
The summer of 2023 might be remembered as the year that people almost everywhere finally began to understand what global warming means: unrelenting...
Pricing the Priceless: The ultimate, maybe the only climate solution / Paula DiPerna
Humanity is hardwired to value the valuable, to conserve even to hoard treasure. The atmosphere, the oceans, earth’s ecosystem are vital to life,...
Our Blue Planet / Asha de Vos
Asha de Vos has done pioneering work on blue whales and joined this week for a conversation about her work in Sri Lanka. The planet “Earth” should...
Code Red: not for Earth, for Humanity? – Johan Rockström
“For the first time in human history, we face a planetary emergency.” Those words were written by Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute...
Don’t Fool With Mother Nature!
We live in an era of accelerating, disruptive climate change, with catastrophic consequences that every credible forecast says will worsen. To look...
What’s Next for the Climate: A Post Glasgow Perspective
No one is better positioned to answer those questions than Denmark's Climate Ambassador Tomas Anker Christensen. Tomas was deeply engaged in the...