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To make green hydrogen, take water and split it into hydrogen and oxygen. It sounds simple – but the government’s water-use figures may be a drastic underestimate.
Electric vehicle sales are racing ahead in the UK – but the switch to heat pumps is lagging behind.
The government wants to motivate manufacturers to electrify their energy use.
Labour will not cut the £13.2 billion warm homes plan, as some expected. But issues remain.
Workers ‘on the tools’, building and upgrading transmission infrastructure, are struggling.
Researchers warn that South Africa and Chile should avoid taking out huge loans to set up green hydrogen industries.
‘Zonal pricing’ would not address price distortions caused by gas.
‘The coal fire was where most of our participants let their minds linger.’
Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the defining geopolitical issue of our time.
Shipping produces roughly the same amount of emissions as aviation, yet it is often overlooked. It’s time for change.
Tourism emissions have been increasing at twice the rate of the global economy. That will double over the next 20 years, far outpacing technological solutions. New tourism policies will be needed.
It’s the government’s job to make it easier and cheaper for people to change their lives.
If Nigeria doesn’t roll out clean fuels fast, its carbon dioxide emissions from cooking on firewood will triple by 2060, new research has found.
As Australia’s domestic reliance on coal falls, our exports are bigger than ever – and new coal approvals suggest this won’t change soon.
CCS needs scrutiny – but it also needs to work.
South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy resisted the transition to renewable energy.
Emissions pathways act as a map of the future, showing us how to get from where we are to where we want to be.
The good news is that New Zealand is on track to meet electricity demand with renewable generation by 2030. The less good news is that winter price spikes are still likely.
Japan is splashing cash for Australian gas to keep fossil fuels flowing under its net zero plan for South East Asia . But this undercuts Australia’s green export vision
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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