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More than a century of research shows that burning fossil fuels warms the climate – that’s exactly why granting new North Sea oil and gas licenses is a bad idea.
Incrementalism and politics as usual cannot save the Barrier Reef from the largest threat it faces – the heat ramping up from climate change
International shipping is a big contributor to climate change, and it doesn’t change quickly, but its companies are starting to invest in cleaner fuels.
In the late 1980s, well diggers in Mali struck a rich source of naturally-created hydrogen. Now prospectors are scouring South Australia, looking for natural hydrogen.
Keir Starmer pledges to end new UK oil and gas exploration – an expert’s take on why this is the right move.
Nigeria’s new President Bola Ahmed Tinubu faces a number of challenges. But climate change cannot be ignored.
Labour would still honour existing licenses to drill for fossil fuels.
If greenhouse gas emissions continue at a high rate, breadbaskets of Europe and North America will see a 50% chance of a flash drought each year by the end of this century.
Energy firms are likely to lie about their corporate social responsibility to the environment. Their deception can be turned around for good if they are held accountable.
To address the climate crisis, governments need to limit new fossil fuel developments. But foreign investors are often protected under trade and investment agreements.
Fossil fuel power plants can avoid most emissions by capturing carbon dioxide and pumping it underground. But to be a climate solution, that carbon has to stay stored for thousands of years.
How to be more a more eco-friendly parent – it’s not as simple as ditching disposable nappies.
After the Supreme Court overturned the Obama administration’s strategy for reducing power plant carbon emissions in 2022, the Biden administration is taking a narrower but still ambitious approach.
Hydrogen is getting a lot of attention as the EPA prepares to propose new emissions rules for power plants. But it has a problem: almost all of it used today is made from fossil fuels.
How can the Net Zero Authority help Australia make the most of this once-in-a-generation economic transformation?
To meet New Zealand’s target of a net-zero carbon economy by 2050, industrial heat process will have to change. Here are the four main options.
A psychologist explains how opponents of climate policies use a common thinking error to manipulate the public – and why people are so susceptible.
Canada can meet its carbon emission reduction targets, make food cheap again and open up a gigantic trade surplus with the U.S. by shading farm crops with solar panels.
The criticisms faced by ESG projects are indicative of the growing polarization in the future profitability of the fossil fuel sector.
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Lecturer in Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Professor of Political Philosophy, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Chair, Mathematical Modelling of Climate, University of Exeter
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Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Sociology; Co-Founder, Center for Environmental Justice at CSU, Colorado State University
