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Guardian climate pledge 2020

Our promise to readers to prioritise the escalating climate crisis in our journalism and our business decisions

  • Friend of the earth protest performance against pollution inducing acid rain

    'We've had so many wins': why the green movement can overcome climate crisis

    Leaded petrol, acid rain, CFCs … the last 50 years of environmental action have shown how civil society can force governments and business to change
  • People working in garden allotments, Twickenham, London, UK - 16 Apr 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Andrew Fosker/REX/Shutterstock (10614985p) Public Garden Allotments in The London Borough of Richmond remain open for residents' use during the coronavirus outbreak; to be used while following strict social distancing guidelines and personal hygiene rules. People working in garden allotments, Twickenham, London, UK - 16 Apr 2020

    Lemon juice, legumes and local activism: what green habits have you adopted in 2020?

    Guardian supporters around the world tell us about the sustainable lifestyle changes that they have committed to during lockdown – and beyond
  • Martin Rees

    Britain must nurture its scientific expertise to help save the world from climate crisis

    Martin Rees
    Clean energy and sustainable food supplies will be the planet’s most pressing issues over the next 30 years, says astronomer royal Martin Rees
  • Workers transporting coal in Jharkhand, eastern India, 2019

    People, not carbon emissions, should be at the heart of the west's climate action

    Aruna Chandrasekhar
    In focusing on targets, activists from rich countries risk putting metrics above the lives of vulnerable people, says Aruna Chandrasekhar, an independent journalist from India
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    Climate crisis: does journalism actually make a difference?

    Jonathan Watts Global environment editor
    By reporting on issues across the world affecting the climate crisis the media can influence change
  • Italy Liguria Camogli is located in the eastern part of Liguria, in the province of Genoa, and is one of the most beautiful towns in Liguria, with a very suggestive church that overlooks the sea and with great storm surges, the waves crash against its walls.<br>T34805 Italy Liguria Camogli is located in the eastern part of Liguria, in the province of Genoa, and is one of the most beautiful towns in Liguria, with a very suggestive church that overlooks the sea and with great storm surges, the waves crash against its walls.

    Fragile Planet: documenting the impact of the climate crisis – in pictures

    Fragile Planet is a record of the dramatic changes shaping our planet. Containing more than 230 photographs, the book documents the effects of climate systems on our world
  • Whitelee Windfarm in Glasgow

    How will the pandemic affect the sprint away from fossil fuels?

    Daniel Yergin
    The challenges of re-engineering the global economy by 2050 were already immense, even before the advent of Covid-19, says author Daniel Yergin
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    'Hijacked by anxiety': how climate dread is hindering climate action

    A growing school of psychologists believe the trauma of the climate crisis is a key barrier to change – and can be treated with therapy
  • Moth and butterfly samples from Guanacaste conservation area in north-west Costa Rica.

    Counting the species: how DNA barcoding is rewriting the book of life

  • A carbon injection site near Reykjavik

    Carbon capture 'moonshot' moves closer, as billions of dollars pour in

  • 9point

    A nine-point plan for the UK to achieve net zero carbon emissions

  • The Race Bank windfarm off the Norfolk and Lincolnshire coast.

    'It'll be around forever': fossil fuel workers switch to new jobs in renewables

  • Electric taxis in Henan.

    What China's plan for net-zero emissions by 2060 means for the climate

    Barbara Finamore
  • Environment-DC-print

    3,000 articles, 100m readers: a year of our best environment journalism

  • Social test new-3 (7)

    The Guardian’s climate pledge - an update for our readers

  • Julie Richards

    How the Guardian plans to reach net zero emissions by 2030

    Julie Richards
  • Our world is facing irreversible destruction – and still there's no urgency in Australian climate policy

    Lenore Taylor
  • The Guardian's climate promise: we will keep raising the alarm

    Katharine Viner
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