During this year's global election supercycle, as it was called, national elections were held in a record number of countries, accounting for roughly half the world's population. This scenario made the prospects for a climate turnaround, or at least the beginnings of one, seem especially promising. The human race is growing increasingly concerned about climate change, and 2024 was a global opportunity to elect leaders who were serious about addressing the greatest threat we face as a species.
That's not how it worked out.
"It's quite clear that in most advanced economies the big loser of the elections has been climate," Catherine Fieschi, an expert in European politics, told The Guardian last month.
This bitter pill was made more galling by the degree to which environmental issues generally — not just climate but also pollution, deforestation, biodiversity loss, etc. — hardly registered in the run-up to our own elections. And yet when the environment was actually on the ballot in the form of initiatives that fostered conservation or climate resilience, it did very well...
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