Articles by Senior Data Reporter Clayton Aldern
Clayton Aldern is a data reporter and data visualization developer. He has contributed to reporting teams that have won various awards, including a national Edward R. Murrow Award, multiple Online Journalism Awards, multiple Sigma Awards, and the Breaking Barriers Award from the Institute for Nonprofit News. He is the author of The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains.
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The state of global climate finance is looking … not awful
A new report estimates that the world mobilized $62 billion in climate finance in 2014. The global goal is $100 billion annually by 2020.
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Some of the biggest banks are cutting how much they lend to coal companies
Citigroup and ANZ announced they will slice their lending to coal mining operations and dirty coal plants. Do they go far enough?
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Meet the director of the documentary based on Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything”
Grist chats with Canadian filmmaker Avi Lewis about the project, political manifestos, and the pope.
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Does the United Nations’ new global sustainability agenda mean anything for cities?
The U.N.'s new development goals are lofty and ambitious. The devil, as usual, is in the details of the metrics.
