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The new EU rules on sustainable finance defeat their own objective.
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Plan to cut emissions quickly, use offsets sparingly and set broader goals for improving society.
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We know how to build a truly zero carbon house. So why are we not doing it, on a massive scale?
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The UK has set ambitious net zero targets, but is overlooking its imported emissions.
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For the UK to achieve its net zero targets, it needs to take action on its carbon-intensive, poorly regulated supply chains.
The UK’s need for building cooling is set to grow significantly.
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As the UK warms, the government needs to pay more attention to sustainably and efficiently cooling buildings.
The UK government has committed to phase out coal power completely by 2024.
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If the UK is to achieve net zero by 2050, it needs to get moving on making a successful green transition across fuel, transport and housing.
Boundary Dam power station in Saskatchewan, Canada, claims to be the world’s first coal plant with incorporated carbon capture and storage.
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Soaking up and storing CO₂ is not just a question of technology.
Birds fly over a man taking photos of the exposed riverbed of the Old Parana River, a tributary of the Parana River during a drought in Rosario, Argentina, in July 2021. The Global South is being hit hard by climate change, but could business help turn the tide?
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The goal of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, or GFANZ, is to bring together the financial sector to accelerate the transition to a net-zero economy. Here’s why it might actually work.
Black Friday traditionally marks the beginning of the Christmas retail season.
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It’s hypocritical for retailers to make carbon pledges with one hand and continue pushing consumerism with the other.
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Grattan Institute analysis shows it’s possible to achieve a vastly lower-emissions electricity system in less than two decades – if governments can muster the courage.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison driving a hydrogen-fuelled car in Melbourne.
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We need to rapidly reduce global emissions before 2030. Developing hydrogen for low-emissions road transport won’t happen fast enough.
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We can evaluate the plan’s sincerity through a lens of good practice policy making. So how does the government’s net-zero plan rate?
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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.
The greenest buildings are those that exist already.
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One-tenth of global emissions result from the production and supply of building materials – and the construction process itself.
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China has given itself a major advantage over India by constructing a massive road network in the past two decades.
Companies’ net-zero pledges count on vast expanses of forest to hold carbon so they can continue emitting.
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Yes, trees and soils can absorb and store carbon, but the carbon doesn’t stay stored forever. That’s one of the problems with how net-zero plans for the climate are being designed.
The world’s leaders have tried to stop deforestation before, but have had little success.
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The pledge to end deforestation holds great potential, but Canada has some work ahead if it is to make meaningful progress on the new goal and stop ongoing forest and carbon loss.
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Targets for reductions in methane and other greenhouse gases should be guided by science, and set in line with the Paris deal.
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This Australian climate policy gives cause for hope, but will it really lead to a well-adapted Australia?