Lili Fuhr
Lili Fuhr heads the Ecology and Sustainable Development Department at the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Lili Fuhr heads the Ecology and Sustainable Development Department at the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
If there are any geologists in millions of years, they will easily be able to pinpoint the start of the so-called Anthropocene – the geological age during which humans became the dominant influence on… read more
After the Paris climate agreement, efforts to combat corruption and global warming must go hand in hand. Corruption ensures that moneyed and powerful interests are free from rules that hold them in ch… read more
Last December in Paris, 196 governments agreed on the need to limit global warming to 1.5°C – an objective that, if translated into real action, holds the promise of delivering transformational change… read more
Instead of rethinking our economies, in order to reconcile their functioning with environmental imperatives, the prevailing conception of the green economy seeks to quantify nature so that it can be r… read more
Over the last 30 years, the reduction of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, measured in tons of “carbon equivalents," has become the paramount objective in the fight against climate change. Instead o… read more
Despite the urgency of climate change, governments continue not only to subsidize the fossil-fuel industry, but also to use scarce public resources to find new reserves. A new report shows why this ha… read more
The world continues to produce ineffective or impossible solutions to climate change, often based on non-existent or risky technologies. The latest of these solutions is "net-zero emissions" based on carbon… read more
While the introduction of a more responsible climate-change policy may seem far off, serious work by senior officials and business leaders has begun in many advanced countries. The problem is that mos… read more
