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By enacting a legislative framework to achieve carbon neutrality, France and the United Kingdom are making a difference in the fight against climate change.
As well as polluting our seas, plastics are warming the planet too. Urgent changes are needed to eliminate plastic’s contribution to climate breakdown.
Investors are increasingly concerned about climate change, but for the markets to deploy their full capacities, the dominant principles that guide them need to be revised.
The UK has made huge progress in decarbonising its energy mix, but the hard work has just begun.
The climate issue cannot be considered less urgent than the social or economic crisis.
The Drax biomass plant in Yorkshire is the first in the world to pioneer carbon capture and some specialists see it as it has a bright future. But hold the rosy headlines.
The world needs to be carbon-neutral by mid-century to give ourselves a chance of holding global warming to 1.5C. With around 1% of the global carbon budget, Australia needs to rapidly do its share.
Digitalisation and better energy storage are reshaping the electricity market.
We think of decarbonisation as a “cost”. But what about the opportunity?
A new analysis by ClimateWorks Australia says that the electricity sector needs to do far more to cut its carbon emissions than will be delivered by current policies.
The digital world is taking more and more space in our lives… and dramatically increasing electrical use. It’s a serious problem given the urgent need fight climate change.
The country’s electricity is now the cleanest it has been in 60 years.
Countries have started announcing strategies to cut greenhouse gases over the next 35 years.
Phasing out fossils fuels would go a long way to stopping dangerous climate change – but it might be harder than we thought.
With the failures of past planning now apparent, the unruly threat of a damaged and depleting planet is ushering us toward a fourth era of urban restructuring. What might City v4.0 look like?
The process of decarbonisation is a complex one for South Africa, as most its power supply comes from coal.
Numerous milestones have been reached over the past year as the coal is ditched for lower-carbon alternatives.
Solar power is a key piece of South Africa’s energy puzzle.
Tourism is a significant contributor to climate change. But new research suggests that, if we all pitched in, we could decarbonise this global industry for less than the price of an extra checked bag.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor in Sustainable Development
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Honorary Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, University of Aberdeen
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Senior Research Fellow, Collaboration on Energy and Environmental Markets, UNSW
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Climateworks Centre Country Lead, Australia, Monash University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Applied Mathematics, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
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Professor in Practice, Department of Engineering, Durham University
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Energy Systems, UCL
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Associate Professor, Energy Systems and Data Group, Birmingham Energy Institute, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Climate Science and Energy Policy, University of Manchester
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Senior Research Associate in Environmental Governance, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor in Transport Planning, University of Westminster