Andrey Andreyev
At the bottom of our carbon fears is a big black problem.
Demonstrators in Johannesburg march against environmental damage done by coal.
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There is significant potential for the community trusts to improve the financial position of communities. But it’s not happening.
Green hydrogen has unprecedented support from business and political leaders. But several challenges remain.
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Hydrogen could replace fossil fuels, but it’s only as clean as the techniques used to produce it. Almost all production comes from high-carbon sources, but new investments could change that.
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Electric vehicles deserve government subsidies, but there are even better ways to build greener, less car-dependent cities.
Heating or cooling? I do both.
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Heat pumps are the technology of choice for heating and cooling buildings more efficiently and with fewer carbon emissions than furnaces and air conditioning.
Shipping is responsible for a large portion of global emissions.
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If shipping were a country, it would rank between Japan and Germany as the sixth-largest contributor to global carbon dioxide emissions.
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Rhetoric is hardening, but government policies still honour the special relationship with fossil fuels.
Forests are not just carbon ‘warehouses’ they are extraordinary ecosystems supporting a diverse range of birds, animals and plants.
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Carbon has overshadowed forests in climate policies, leading to practices that appear green but actually harm forests.
Could solar power provide an alternative energy source for the web?
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How much energy does the internet use, and - given recent technological advances - could it ever run on renewable energy alone?
If a forest goes up in smoke, what about the offset?
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Emissions linger in the atmosphere for far longer than human or corporate lifespans.
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Chinese bitcoin mining could consume as much energy as the whole of the UK by 2024.
Factories like this one in Serbia will have to pay carbon duties to export to EU in future.
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In setting new tax on the carbon emissions of goods being imported into the bloc, there are two potential disasters for EU to avoid.
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A global energy authority created a roadmap for the world to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Meanwhile, Australia committed $600 million for a major new gas plant.
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A plan to use swappable batteries in long-haul electric trucks highlights how freight is starting to move away from fossil fuels.
A tropical rainforest in South America.
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Even if they can’t save us from climate change, society still depends on forests.
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The Earth should be safe (and habitable) for a few billions of years, but we still need to worry about the impact now of just a few degrees of global warming.
For now, only those who can afford it will be able to escape the power cuts.
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Renewable energy sources won’t make a decisive impact to alleviate South Africa’s power shortage for at least five years.
Deserted: a highway in Dubai during lockdown in 2020.
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A transcript of episode 7 of The Conversation Weekly pocast, including an extra from Don’t Call Me Resilient on the treatment of migrant workers in Canada.
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Plus we hear about the hardships faced by migrant workers in Canada. Listen to episode 7 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Still from ‘Mars’ by Grimes x Mac.
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The digital tokens are a way to create scarcity and an aura of authenticity in an online world of infinite copying, pasting and remixing.