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Ciara Nugent
Ciara Nugent is a staff writer for TIME, based in London
Recent Articles
E.U. Risks its Climate Goals By Calling Natural Gas Green
A long-simmering debate about the future of natural gas has been forced to a head in Europe this month, as the E.U. considers classifying some projects involving the fossil fuel as sustainable investments in official...
By Ciara Nugent
January 13, 2022
Brazil Might Say Goodbye to President Bolsonaro in 2022
After three tumultuous years, Brazilians will soon get the chance to boot out or re-elect their far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. With elections due to be held in October 2022, candidates are launching their campaigns and...
By Ciara Nugent
December 28, 2021
Holiday Gifts That Actually Fight Climate Change
If you’re stuck on what to buy as Christmas gifts this year, a Swiss start-up has a suggestion: some carbon dioxide. Climeworks AG owns the world’s largest direct-air carbon capture facility, in Iceland, where dozens...
By Ciara Nugent
December 7, 2021
How Germany's New Government Plans to Be the Greenest One Yet
"We have a whole roadmap for a post-fossil future based on renewable energy"
By Ciara Nugent
November 26, 2021
Will Austria's Vaccine Mandate Work?
“It deepens the chasm in our society”
By Ciara Nugent
November 23, 2021
The Leftist Millennial Who Could Lead One of Latin America's Wealthiest and Most Unequal Countries
Former student leader Gabriel Boric, 35, is competing against the deeply conservative José Antonio Kast
By Ciara Nugent
November 19, 2021
Countries Brought Promises to COP26. Cities Brought Actions
For a more concrete picture of the transformations that need to take place in the short term, it helps to look to cities
By Ciara Nugent/Glasgow, Scotland
November 12, 2021
The Youngest Negotiating Team at COP26 has a Message for Other Countries
When Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez went to his first round of U.N. climate negotiations as part of Panama’s delegation in 2015, his colleagues told him not to talk about his age, in case it made...
By Ciara Nugent/Glasgow
November 10, 2021
How Young Climate Activists Tired of Waiting for Change Took Action
The youth climate movement has revolutionized the way both politicians and the media speak about climate change. Can it change how we act?
By Ciara Nugent
November 5, 2021
Youth Activists at COP26 Won't Settle For Climate Delay
You won’t fool the children of the revolution. British glam rock band T-Rex issued this warning in a single back in 1972 (just five years before oil company Exxon quietly received its first report about...
By Ciara Nugent
November 5, 2021
The World's Top Carbon Emitters Now All Have Net Zero Pledges. Most of Them Are Too Vague
In a surprise announcement on Monday, India, the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, pledged to reach net zero emissions by 2070. The news, delivered at COP26, the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, means...
By Ciara Nugent
November 4, 2021
India Sets a Surprise Net Zero Goal for 2070
India will reach net zero emissions by 2070, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged Monday in his speech at the opening of the COP26 U.N. climate summit, a target that climate advocates recognized as further off...
By Ciara Nugent
November 1, 2021
Gas Prices and Energy Bills Are Going Up. Will COP26 Help Bring Them Down Again?
Your energy bills are probably going up. The average price of gasoline in the U.S. is currently $3.38 a gallon, 56% more than a year ago. This winter, the roughly half of U.S. homes heated...
By Ciara Nugent
October 29, 2021
Economic Growth and Carbon Emissions Used to Go Together. In Some Countries, That's Changing
When negotiators from almost 200 countries gather in Glasgow from Oct. 31 for the most important U.N. climate summit since 2015, the priority will be agreeing on how fast each country should cut its carbon...
By Ciara Nugent
October 29, 2021
Here Are the Goals of the COP26 Climate Change Meetings—and Where the World Stands in Accomplishing Them
This week, thousands of ministers and diplomats from across the world are descending on an event campus in Glasgow, Scotland for the most important climate conference in recent years—and perhaps the most significant international meeting...
By Alejandro de la Garza
October 28, 2021
An Indigenous Rights Leader Is Trying to Rewrite Chile’s Constitution to Put its Ecosystems First
Alongside our thirst for fossil fuels, humans’ destruction of nature has triggered the climate and ecological crises that now threaten our life on this planet. A major goal for delegates at COP26 is to improve...
By Ciara Nugent
October 28, 2021
There’s Still One Part of the Paris Agreement That Hasn’t Been Finalized. She Wants to Change That
Countries have long agreed that emissions could be cut faster by allowing carbon trading—where one nation or business pays for projects that reduce emissions in another country, and then counts those reductions in their own...
By Ciara Nugent
October 28, 2021
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Wants to Make Climate Action Profitable
Around 20% of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies had committed to net-zero targets
By Ciara Nugent
October 28, 2021
Why Hopes Are Fading for Glasgow's U.N. Climate Summit
“It’s been definitely more challenging from the outset than any other COP”
By Ciara Nugent
October 22, 2021
Brazilian Trans Politician Fights for Change Despite Dangers
In November 2020, Erika Hilton became the first trans woman elected to the city council in São Paulo
By Ciara Nugent
October 13, 2021
The Fight to Control the Narrative Over Climate and Energy Security
A version of this story first appeared in the Climate is Everything newsletter. If you’d like sign up to receive this free once-a-week email, click here. Russian president Vladimir Putin had some unsolicited advice for...
By Ciara Nugent
October 13, 2021
El Salvador's President Bukele Uses Bitcoin for a Rebrand
Will the country's adoption of the digital currency help its people, or just its president?
By Ciara Nugent
October 1, 2021
The Enduring Hope of Jane Goodall
In the early years of World War II, when Jane Goodall was around 6 years old, she was often woken from her sleep by the blare of air-raid sirens. The sound warned that Nazi planes...
By Ciara Nugent
September 30, 2021
75% of the Young People Around the World are Frightened of the Future Because of Climate Change
Growing up in the emerging reality of the climate crisis is taking its toll on young people’s mental health. According to a global survey and peer-reviewed study soon to be published in Lancet Planetary Health,...
By Ciara Nugent
September 14, 2021
Can Annalena Baerbock Change Germany?
Green chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock is trying to bring voters around to her sweeping change platform ahead of Sept. 26 elections.
By Ciara Nugent / Dachau, Germany
September 14, 2021
Cities Have Firefighters and Trash Collectors. As the Climate Breaks Down, Do They Also Need Resilience Corps?
When Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans in early September, Tonya Freeman-Brown made the difficult decision to stay in the city. The 53 year-old and her family sheltered in an old brick hotel in the downtown...
By Ciara Nugent
September 10, 2021
How Can Cities Stop Subways Flooding in the Climate Crisis?
As the remnants of Hurricane Ida passed over the northeast Wednesday night, dumping a record-shattering 3.15 inches of rain on New York City in a single hour, water began to pour into the city’s subways....
By Ciara Nugent
September 3, 2021
How Extreme Heat Hurts Jobs and the Economy
By driving down productivity, extreme heat could cost the U.S. economy $500 billion by 2050, per an Aug. 31 report by the Atlantic Council
By Ciara Nugent
August 31, 2021
Climate Change Won't Kill Tourism, But Tourism Must Change
"One day you're in heaven, and the next day everything is gone"
By Ciara Nugent
August 18, 2021
Sadiq Khan Has A Plan to Build a Greener, Fairer London
"For anybody who thinks they’ve got us on the ropes, the history of London is Muhammad Ali, knocking people out"
By Ciara Nugent
August 11, 2021
The World Has Been On Fire. Here’s What It Looks Like
Photos of the many countries across the northern hemisphere this summer experiencing the worst wildfires in years of recorded history
By Ciara Nugent
August 5, 2021
Populations are Growing in Flood-Prone Areas
The number of people living in flood-prone areas is growing faster than in other places, and at a much faster rate than scientists had previously expected, a study published Aug. 4 in the journal Nature...
By Ciara Nugent
August 4, 2021
British Diver Tom Daley Sends Heartfelt Message to LGBTQ Youth After Winning His First Olympic Gold
"You can achieve anything and there is a whole lot of your chosen family out here, ready to support you"
By Ciara Nugent
July 26, 2021
The Amazon Now Emits More Carbon Than it Absorbs. Can We Ever Reverse That Tipping Point?
A version of this story first appeared in the Climate is Everything newsletter. If you’d like sign up to receive this free once-a-week email, click here. It’s a high bar to clear, but this is...
By Ciara Nugent
July 21, 2021
German Floods Expose Europe's Climate Hubris
"We have to get rid of this thought that somehow extreme and severe weather cannot impact us"
By Ciara Nugent
July 19, 2021
Haitian President Assassinated: Who Is Christian Sanon?
The mystery surrounding the murder of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse deepened Monday as Haitian police arrested a U.S.-based evangelical pastor, placing him at the center of a murky plot surrounding an assassination that has stunned...
By Ciara Nugent
July 13, 2021
Meet the Olympic and Paralympic Athletes Who Battled COVID-19
'What we’ve been through has made me realize even more: health is the most important thing, both for the individual and the collective'
By Ciara Nugent
July 8, 2021
City Heat is Worse if You’re Not Rich or White. The World’s First Heat Officer Wants to Change That
Black and Hispanic residents of U.S. cities are around twice as exposed as white people to the “urban heat island effect”
By Ciara Nugent
July 7, 2021
Brazil's Environmental 'Terminator' Resigns
Ricardo Salles was nicknamed "the terminator" for his destructive policies
By Ciara Nugent
June 24, 2021
The Best International Movies on Netflix
From 'Pan's Labyrinth' to 'Atlantics,' 'The Handmaiden' to 'Wadjda'
By Abhishyant Kidangoor
June 11, 2021
Will G7 Leaders Step Up to Finance Fighting Climate Change?
The weather forecast is sunny this weekend in Cornwall, the picturesque corner of southwest England that will host the G7 summit from Friday to Sunday. At first glance, the outlook for the climate at the...
By Ciara Nugent
June 10, 2021
Can Barcelona Fix Its Love-Hate Relationship With Tourists After the Pandemic?
Before last year, Martí Cusó didn’t like to linger in the streets of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, the neighborhood where he has lived all his life. It was impossible to sit on a bench or play...
By Ciara Nugent
June 9, 2021
Why Climate Action for Palestinians is in Israel's Interests
The May 21 ceasefire between Israel and Hamas won't allow Palestinians to prepare for the looming threats of climate change
By Ciara Nugent
May 26, 2021
Can Airlines Preserve Emission Reductions as Travel Rebounds?
Travel restrictions imposed across the world during the COVID-19 pandemic forced airlines to plead for government bailouts and lay off staff, while some folded entirely. There was one silver lining, though: a huge temporary drop...
By Ciara Nugent
May 17, 2021
Asia Has 99 of the 100 Cities Facing Most Environmental Risk
The many environmental challenges facing the world are far from evenly shared across regions. Of the 100 cities facing the greatest environmental risks, 99 are in Asia, according to a report published today by risk...
By Ciara Nugent
May 13, 2021
How Activists Around the World Are Fighting for Justice
The video of Derek Chauvin’s kneeling on George Floyd’s neck traveled from a Minneapolis street to every corner of the world. Black activists in the U.K. spoke of their visceral reactions to the footage, while...
By Amy Gunia
May 11, 2021
'There's No Easy Way Out of This.' How Anti-Government Protests in Colombia Escalated into Deadly Clashes with Police
Scenes from the protests over inequality that have been raging in cities across the country since April 28
By Ciara Nugent
May 7, 2021
The Link Between Climate Change and Disordered Migration
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador made a tangible proposal at last week’s U.S.-led climate summit, a rarity in the world of climate geopolitics. He called on President Joe Biden to finance an expansion of...
By Ciara Nugent
April 28, 2021
Can Biden Trust Bolsonaro to Defend Amazon?
“The U.S. should not strike an agreement with the federal government because it won’t be fulfilled”
By Ciara Nugent
April 20, 2021
Can the COVID-19 Economic Recovery Prioritize Women?
“Without all the work that women did this year, there’d be no economy to rebuild.”
By Ciara Nugent
April 20, 2021
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