Andrew Simms: In Europe’s ‘bleak midwinter’ of 1430-1440, Medieval society made dramatic changes in response to food shortages and famine caused by their own climate crisis. What lessons can we learn from history?

With a reality TV demagogue in power, it’s more important than ever to find a story in which people can discern a better future

Andrew Simms: Choosing the best possible future means considering radical scenarios that align energy use and industry with climate action

Andrew Simms: A UK cross-party initiative addresses the appetite and mechanics for the cooperation needed to help us live within Earth’s limits

Andrew Simms: The Brexit campaign pivoted around migration but its politicians are sceptical of action on global warming that is a key driver of displacement

Andrew Simms: BP’s call for a ‘meaningful carbon price’ is the latest example of wrongly trying to apply economic theories and tools to the environment

The ability to cooperate and coordinate will mean the difference between looking forward with hope to the future or facing catastrophic climate change

Andrew Simms: Our children’s children will not thank us for investing so heavily in technologies like nuclear at the expense of safer, low-carbon options

Andrew Simms: From railway rollouts to post-war ‘homes for heroes’, history shows us that societies are capable of great and rapid transition in response to a known challenge with clear targets

It’s a perverse system that punishes peaceful activists while rewarding those who caused the banks to fail - economic sins that cost millions more than the inconvenience of a group of climate campaigners

Andrew Simms: Wine could be the ultimately safe subject to communicate climate change where even great deluges of rain fail

Andrew Simms: With one year to go before the 100 months countdown ends, how has the climate debate changed?

Andrew Simms: In the last month, experts have questioned the accuracy of both the emissions reductions targets and resources needed for climate action. So what does this mean for the planet?

Andrew Simms: VW is paying the price of revelations that ‘clean diesel’ is as much a lie as ‘clean coal’ - in a low-carbon economy 100s of energy intensive industries will have to reinvent themselves or become similarly exposed

Andrew Simms: Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘people’s quantitative easing’ for house building was derided by many, but to keep a roof over all our heads in the face of climate change it is time for fresh economic thinking

We are heading fast in the wrong direction despite the world gearing up to approve new sustainable development goals and a new climate accord

Andrew Simms: We have been driving many species to extinction, seemingly without a care about who and what we push over the edge, including ourselves. But our ability to empathise may be key to our survival

Andrew Simms: Whether to engage in debate or change opinion and behaviour, arts can play a key role in the cultural awakening of the masses to the perils of climate change

Andrew Simms: The three main political parties have barely uttered a word about the environment and even the Green party seems to be prioritising an anti-austerity message

Andrew Simms: Despite low oil prices, the latest figures reveal a striking turnaround in solar and wind power investment, but are we really about to win the carbon war?