As recent political history shows, emissions reduction targets must be legally binding if we’re to have any hope of reaching them.
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Woodhouse Colliery would be the UK’s first new deep coal mine in three decades.
No-one says reducing emissions from the agriculture sector will be easy. But it must be done, or farmers will suffer the most.
Scott Morrison has taken a very small step towards endorsing a target of net zero emissions by 2050.
Zero emission? Carbon neutral? Carbon negative? What does it mean to achieve ‘net-zero’ emissions?
A year out from the postponed 26th UN conference, the UK held an online meeting to drum up goodwill for climate action.
The Climate Change Committee has laid out a road map for net zero emissions that the UK government could follow.
Slashing carbon emissions by 68% by 2030 will depend on using the UK’s infrastructure strategy effectively.
Alternative farming models, like wood pasture grazing, would allow the UK government to maintain food production while regenerating ecosystems.
Good news for large, small and advanced nuclear reactors.
The plan has plenty on reducing emissions, but less on removing already-emitted carbon from the atmosphere.
Because pledges alone won’t achieve net zero.
Hamstrung by a Republican Senate, President-elect Biden will need to look abroad for collaborators on climate action.
From property to local government, economic sectors are meeting the climate change challenge head on. Now the federal government must get on board.
Is the UK government missing the wood for the trees?
The effects of climate change and mitigation are not just unequal between countries but also within countries.
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.
Ordinary British people proposed bolder climate measures than anything politicians have so far dared to suggest.
Canada isn’t on track to meet its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target. We need a clear plan — and soon.
New Zealand’s electricity generation is already more than 80% renewable, but experts warn a 100% target would require significant over-building of renewable generation that would rarely be used.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Professor of Advanced Building Design, University of Hertfordshire
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Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Associate in Environmental Governance, Lancaster University
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Climateworks Centre - Country Lead, Australia, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Property, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emeritus, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University
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Honorary Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, University of Aberdeen
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Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Executive Director, Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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James Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin School, Environmental Change Institute and Institute for Science Innovation and Society, University of Oxford
