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Hydrogen isn’t very efficient, but it fits many business models.
Some companies’ net-zero plans include continuing to emit climate-warming greenhouse gases for decades.
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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.
Batteries used in Spanish energy storage tests.
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Britain’s electricity sector continues to decarbonise, but its capacity to store energy lags far behind.
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As recent political history shows, emissions reduction targets must be legally binding if we’re to have any hope of reaching them.
Haig Pit in Whitehaven, Cumbria, UK.
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Woodhouse Colliery would be the UK’s first new deep coal mine in three decades.
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No-one says reducing emissions from the agriculture sector will be easy. But it must be done, or farmers will suffer the most.
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Scott Morrison has taken a very small step towards endorsing a target of net zero emissions by 2050.
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Zero emission? Carbon neutral? Carbon negative? What does it mean to achieve ‘net-zero’ emissions?
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a video address during the 2020 Climate Ambition Summit.
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A year out from the postponed 26th UN conference, the UK held an online meeting to drum up goodwill for climate action.
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The Climate Change Committee has laid out a road map for net zero emissions that the UK government could follow.
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Slashing carbon emissions by 68% by 2030 will depend on using the UK’s infrastructure strategy effectively.
Grazing cattle in wood pastures could be a win-win for food growers and the environment.
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Alternative farming models, like wood pasture grazing, would allow the UK government to maintain food production while regenerating ecosystems.
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Good news for large, small and advanced nuclear reactors.
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The plan has plenty on reducing emissions, but less on removing already-emitted carbon from the atmosphere.
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Because pledges alone won’t achieve net zero.
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Hamstrung by a Republican Senate, President-elect Biden will need to look abroad for collaborators on climate action.
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From property to local government, economic sectors are meeting the climate change challenge head on. Now the federal government must get on board.
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Is the UK government missing the wood for the trees?
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The effects of climate change and mitigation are not just unequal between countries but also within countries.
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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.