Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions decreased by only one per cent between 2005 and 2019. A new climate plan charts the path to deep cuts in carbon emissions in only eight years.
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Articles on Net zero emissions
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Why recent calls for the UK to resuscitate shale gas exploration are for the birds.
New production methods, consumer trends and good ideas have the potential to bring manufacturing back into city centres. Can it coexist with housing?
The new EU rules on sustainable finance defeat their own objective.
Plan to cut emissions quickly, use offsets sparingly and set broader goals for improving society.
We know how to build a truly zero carbon house. So why are we not doing it, on a massive scale?
Insights editors choose their top long reads of the year.
For the UK to achieve its net zero targets, it needs to take action on its carbon-intensive, poorly regulated supply chains.
As the UK warms, the government needs to pay more attention to sustainably and efficiently cooling buildings.
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.
Soaking up and storing CO₂ is not just a question of technology.
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.
It’s hypocritical for retailers to make carbon pledges with one hand and continue pushing consumerism with the other.
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.
We need to rapidly reduce global emissions before 2030. Developing hydrogen for low-emissions road transport won’t happen fast enough.
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?
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.
One-tenth of global emissions result from the production and supply of building materials – and the construction process itself.
China has given itself a major advantage over India by constructing a massive road network in the past two decades.
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.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Deputy Program Director, Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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CEO, Climateworks Centre
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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds
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Professor in Energy and Climate Governance, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
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Executive Director, Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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CEO and Scientific Director, Ocean Frontier Institute; Professor and Associate VP Research, Dalhousie University
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Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Associate Dean (Education), University of Nottingham
