Embodied emissions in buildings could be a hidden setback for carbon reduction targets.
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Embodied carbon - carbon produced during a building’s construction - urgently needs reducing, and reusing buildings could help.
Experts explain the latest evidence on eco-anxiety in The Conversation Weekly.
Multiple efforts to tackling the twin issues of sinking land surface and rising sea level are urgently needed.
We cannot claim that inducing others to reduce emissions gives us a moral license to emit in their place.
We must take significant and rapid action now, to ensure cities play their part in limiting dangerous global warming and withstand the climate challenges ahead.
In Paris, the French drafted ambitious texts and dared the biggest emitters to oppose it. In Glasgow, it’s the least developed countries which will have to do the most work.
Heading into the final days of the Glasgow summit, the goal of limiting heating below 2°C looks attainable, and 1.5°C is still within reach. There is still room for hope.
Our study shows that for most young people, worrying about climate change appears to be constructive and not associated with general mental health difficulties.
One-tenth of global emissions result from the production and supply of building materials – and the construction process itself.
Big corporations are under pressure to take real action on emissions or risk the wrath of protesters, investors and even shareholders.
Many of the temperatures presently being recorded in Africa, and those projected in the next decade, are already close to the limits of human survival, or “liveability”.
Misinformation about climate change has been spreading in other ways, and social media companies have been reluctant to stop it.
Some pollution is locked in for years to come, and there are no simple solutions.
A new climate projection found Glasgow pledges leave the world off-track for limiting warming to 1.5°C. What needs to happen in the final days of frantic COP26 negotiations to close the ambition gap?
First Nations leaders Pabai Pabai and Paul Kabai filed a landmark class action against the Australian government to protect communities in the Torres Strait from climate change.
Despite vastly different political systems, we can draw some interesting parallels between Russia and Australia on the climate front.
Women’s climate knowledge is often overlooked, despite it being a vital resource for adapting to a warming world.
At COP26, governments will have to consider how climate policies help them achieve their emissions targets and affect economies.
At COP26 in Glasgow everyone was committed to saving the planet, but there were highly divergent views about how to do it.
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Visiting Professor of Practice, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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