The pros and cons of seven positions on zero-carbon energy: A guide
Debates on energy policy can easily derail. To recognise and avoid caricatures, we need a better understanding of what the different...
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- May 22
- 4 min
What are the most effective actions for the climate?
If we don’t change course, the lifestyle of every family will result in one climate death. We urgently need ways to prevent global...
- May 12
- 4 min
Study finds strong public support for advanced nuclear energy, especially amongst environmentalists
New study finds strong public support for advanced nuclear energy, especially amongst environmentalists
- May 11
- 5 min
Getting a taste of animal-free cheese: Our visit to Formo
How to experience the exciting world of precision fermentation up close? Hanno Kossmann and Martin Reich got a tour around the offices...
- Apr 26
- 6 min
We don’t need special legislation on new breeding technologies in the EU
The current burdensome approval procedure for new breeding technologies doesn’t make sense, argues Joost van Kasteren. If the European...
- Apr 19
- 8 min
Never do anything for the first time
Whatever technology comes along, it never enters the world without a message of doom. That was true for writing, for the steam train, for...
- Apr 14
- 3 min
Nobel laureates and leading scientists urge Chancellor Scholz to stop Germany’s nuclear exit
Experts warn that eliminating this major source of low-carbon power while reopening coal power plants endangers the global climate and...
- Apr 13
- 3 min
Open letter: Call for continued operation of German nuclear power plants
An open letter towards German chancelor Scholz
- Apr 12
- 2 min
RePlanet Australia launch: Our story and our hopes
RePlanet Australia is excited to have officially launched, bringing RePlanet’s mission of elevating humanity and liberating nature to...
- Apr 11
- 11 min
To get rid of global poverty, let’s make a stronger case for aid
While many in the West doubt the effectiveness of international aid, studies overwhelmingly show that while aid may not solve global...
- Apr 4
- 2 min
Recycled nuclear waste can provide clean energy to Europe for hundreds of years
If nuclear waste were recycled and repurposed as fuel for advanced nuclear reactors it could generate up to a millennia of zero carbon...
- Mar 31
- 8 min
Vegans, know your privilege!
Eating plant-based food is good for animals and the climate, but should we impose veganism on cultures where eating meat is an important...
- Mar 28
- 2 min
Europe must keep low-carbon nuclear in EU sustainable taxonomy
Why we ask European Commissioners to resist the pressure to ignore the science about Europe's largest source of low-carbon energy. In...
- Mar 28
- 4 min
To our EU Commissioners, and to all interested parties,
Amsterdam, 28 March 2023 Ms. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission Mr. Frans Timmermans, Commission VP for the...
- Mar 24
- 4 min
When climate policy becomes ‘a cover for colonialism’
Recently, Greta Thunberg protested the construction of a wind farm on indigenous land in Norway that would provide electricity to the...
- Mar 17
- 5 min
Seeing a movement emerge: My reflections on Atomic Hope
A new documentary on the rise of the pro-nuclear movement is out, featuring Ben Heard. Here he looks back on what it meant to stand up...
- Mar 7
- 7 min
Q&A with George Monbiot: ‘It is time we became food-numerate’
RePlanet’s wildly successful Reboot Food campaign has some ambitious core principles: end animal agriculture; use minimal land for food...
- Mar 1
- 12 min
We need radical realism: The case for fast, feasible and universal climate action
As we move on from our practical failure to keep global warming to 1.5˚C, we need to keep working, not give up. But we should also ask...
- Mar 1
- 5 min
One year on: Western companies traded 384 million barrels of Russian oil
RePlanet called for Europe to immediately end fossil fuel imports from Russia following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the 24th of...
- Mar 1
- 11 min
How to create a good Anthropocene
Humanity has embarked on a grand planetary experiment, bringing about progress while disrupting the Earth’s systems. While nobody knows...
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