How green are our political parties?
In the lead up to the parliamentary elections on May 30, the Cyprus Mail’s weekly environment section has asked the main political parties for their policies on a wide range ...
G7 should invest $10 trillion to stoke climate-friendly recovery
By Guy Faulconbridge
G7 countries should invest $10 trillion to stoke an investment-driven recovery that puts Covid-19 vaccines in arms and triggers a sweeping energy transformation to slow climate change, according ...
The beekeepers who believe in full transparency
Top quality honey is not easy to produce, especially in the face of local pesticide and antibiotic use and climate change
By Annette Chrysostomou
Projects such as the Achna bee ...
Cyprus’ energy transition slow and erratic
Cyprus has come in 51st out of 115 countries on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Energy Transition Index (ETI) 2021, showing slow and erratic movement since 2012.
The island sits at 60 points ...
From coal and steel to carbon-free and digital: the EU reaches turning point
By Jan Strupczewski
Years from now, 2021 may be seen as the moment the European Union took a leap forward from its post-World War Two birth as a coal and steel ...
Climate leaders’ summit: the last-chance saloon
You can tuck your head between your knees and kiss your target of ‘not-more-than-1.5-degrees-Celsius-warming’ goodbye.
Trump is out and Biden is in, and you will hear a lot of ...
More than words needed to turn climate round
Despite increasing momentum the danger is that aspirations could end up being more dramatic than real outcomes
By Dr Charles Ellinas
As a show of global solidarity to tackle climate ...
China expected to favour green tech over coal in new five-year plan
By Laurie Goering
China, which long targeted rapid industrial growth despite its environmental consequences, now aims to become the global leader in “low-carbon tech for a carbon-constrained world” as it ...