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Prominent academics, including a former IPCC chair, round on governments worldwide for using the concept of net zero emissions to ‘greenwash’ their lack of commitment to solving global warming.
Scott Morrison says he hopes to focus the conversation at this week’s Biden climate summit on the question of how to achieve net-zero emissions.
As Scott Morrison gradually pivots his climate policy towards embracing a target of net zero emissions by 2050, he is seeking to distinguish the government from “inner city” types and political opponents who’ve been marching down that road for a long time.
CEOs, including at oil companies and airlines, are relying on trees and oceans to capture and store carbon for them, but the numbers don’t add up.
Economic recovery and carbon neutrality are linked. Both depend on the ocean’s ability to continue to regulate climate.
Plus new research on why China is closing down coal-fired power stations. Listen to episode 3 of The Conversation Weekly.
University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics.
Zero emission? Carbon neutral? Carbon negative? What does it mean to achieve ‘net-zero’ emissions?
Because pledges alone won’t achieve net zero.
It remains to be seen whether China’s climate promise is genuine. But it puts pressure on many other nations – not least Australia – to follow.
‘Carbon sinks’ like forests and the soil have already been factored into the carbon budget – they should not be double-counted.
Households shouldn’t have to do all the heavy lifting in the renewables transition. A new solar farm shows organisations and businesses how it’s done.
Energy efficiency and electrification should lead the effort to decarbonise society, not hydrogen.
Net zero energy buildings produce at least as much energy as they use. Designing whole net zero campuses and communities takes the energy and climate benefits to a higher level.
The case for carbon pricing is not as ironclad as the case for climate action.
Britain’s electricity supply is getting greener but the burning question remains over how to decarbonise heating.
After his landslide victory, Boris Johnson declared his ambition to make his country ‘the cleanest, greenest on Earth’. Here’s what he needs to do to prove it.
Wales is one small country with big carbon targets but that still needs the policies to deliver them.
Some of Australia’s biggest property companies are making ambitious emissions-reduction pledges – but how well are they really doing?
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Program Director, Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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Climateworks Centre Country Lead, Australia, Monash 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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Adjunct Professor of Transport, University of Technology Sydney
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor of Law, Deakin University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds
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Former Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford
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Chair of Energy and Climate Governance, University of Manchester
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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University