Category: Analysis

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Anna Turns, Senior Environment Editor, The Conversation This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. As the UN climate summit Cop30 progresses in the Brazilian city of Belém, there’s much debate about the specifics of climate…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Haomin Wang, Lecturer in Economics, Cardiff University Myvector/Shutterstock Whatever decisions Rachel Reeves makes in her second budget as UK chancellor, it is clear that she needs to find lots of money. Some argue that the best and fairest way of doing this is to raise the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jon Gluyas, Professor of Geoenergy, Carbon Capture and Storage, Durham University Aircraft are not going to become electric. Ersin Ergin Imagine powering long-haul aircraft and heavy ships with fuels derived from just air, water and renewable electricity. This is moving from science fiction to the verge…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicholas Ryder, Professor of Law, Cardiff University In the UK alone, fraud is thought to cost the economy £219 billion per year. tete_escape/Shutterstock Fraud is now the most common offence in the UK accounting for more than 40% of reported crime. In the year to July…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jeremy Hicks, Professor of Post-Soviet Cultural History and Film, Queen Mary University of London The famine of 1932-33, known as the Holodomor, claimed the lives of millions of people in Ukraine. It was not due to climactic failure, but caused by the confiscation of grain, punitively…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By David Allan, Reader in Professional Education and Learning, Edge Hill University Gigi Delgado/Shutterstock The government’s vision for higher education in England, set out in a recent policy paper, includes some changes that will benefit students from poorer backgrounds. An increase in maintenance loans, for instance, will…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sam Phelps, Commissioning Editor, International Affairs, The Conversation This newsletter was first published in The Conversation UK’s World Affairs Briefing email. Sign up to receive weekly analysis of the latest developments in international relations, direct to your inbox. News broke this week that US and Russian…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Miguel Valdez, Lecturer in Technology and Innovation Management, The Open University Autonomous self-driving cars and taxis are already on the roads of San Francisco and Beijing. There are also autonomous tram-style services around Oxfordshire and Dubai. Now researchers in the Italian city of Trento are planning…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation Delhi: 442. Lahore: 334. Beijing: 16. These are the levels of PM 2.5, one of the principle measures for air pollution, on November 19. As Pakistanis and Indians struggle with hazardous air quality, in Beijing – a…