Climate change and sustainability

How business harms the environment, and a plan to cut energy and resource use by 80%.

Design products on nature's model, where waste becomes food for the next cycle.

The economics of climate change, and why a universal carbon price works best.

A computer model of world growth that overshoots its limits and then declines.

The triple bottom line: report on economic, environmental and social results.

How the 1990 US sulphur dioxide allowance trading programme worked in practice.

Why past societies from Easter Island to the Maya collapsed, and what that teaches.

What it would take to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero, sector by sector.

A plan with measurable goals for reaching net-zero emissions.

Environmentalist case for nuclear power, dense cities and genetic engineering

Why climate policy failed to cut emissions as coal use kept rising.

The author's own recall of the triple bottom line.

Insider account: Polman on the Sustainable Living Plan years.

Data-driven look at emissions and what actually reduces them

Ice cores, old shorelines and fossil pollen show how fast the climate now changes.

Rising seas as a present property and insurance crisis, from Miami to Lagos.

How weather forecasts are made, and how fragile the global monitoring behind them is.

The argument that climate change is a problem of capitalism, not one within it.

A computer model of exponential economic and population growth on finite resources.

Population and consumption face physical limits that economics ignores.

Resource productivity framed as an unpriced balance-sheet asset.

Patagonia's founder on running a business against conventional growth logic

International business guide to allowances, offsets and registries.

The offset side: how voluntary credits are created and sold.

How business lobbies built emissions trading as the chosen instrument.

Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich's wager on metal prices, and their fight over scarcity.

Evidence that rich economies now grow while using fewer physical resources.

Data showing progress on environmental problems, enough to reach true sustainability.