The greenhouse gas emissions from concrete production are hard to cut but a new low-carbon cement facility is scaling up production of a far more sustainable alternative.
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To fight global warming we will soon have to try to remove carbon dioxide from the skies or find ways to reflect the Sun’s heat. Such radical paths must be examined, but risky experiments avoided.
The most comprehensive Australian carbon budget assessment completed to date shows the nation flip-flops from source to sink of carbon emissions, depending on the prevailing conditions.
Africans need to re-envision what climate resilient development means within unique African city contexts.
For developing countries, such as Kenya, there is no template for moving to a low-carbon future while accelerating economic growth and development.
Ad Net Zero is a new initiative aimed at reducing the advertising industry’s carbon footprint. But agencies have yet to take the next and most difficult step.
Shipping companies have billions invested in fleets that were built to last decades. Now, the US is calling for zero emissions by 2050, and the EU is raising the cost of fossil fuel use.
The cost of sustainability is no longer a deal breaker for some business owners, but more can be done to encourage decarbonisation efforts.
Already lacking the means to decarbonise their industry or turn to greener alternatives, poor countries could also be deprived of revenues from exports to Europe.
Policymakers, industry regulators and investors must team up to mandate that corporations provide CEOs with financial compensation for reducing carbon footprints.
Governments may be forced to put back deadlines to shift away from petrol and diesel.
A period of high fossil fuel prices has mixed implications.
The Australian government may have announced its net zero plan, but it has yet to factor in the health sector or the health of its people.
Scott Morrison’s plan relies on many “heroic” assumptions which may or may not turn out to be reasonable.
Heat pumps are the technology of choice for heating and cooling buildings more efficiently and with fewer carbon emissions than furnaces and air conditioning.
Even if they can’t save us from climate change, society still depends on forests.
Training neural networks burns through a lot of energy. As the AI field grows, it’s working to keep its carbon foot print from growing with it.
The coronavirus pandemic caused the UN’s annual climate conference to be postponed by a year, but it was also responsible for a drop in carbon emissions. Is it enough and will it last?
Making the solutions cheaper – rather than the problems more expensive – could reduce emissions more fairly.
Climate pledges must be more ambitious and focus on early and aggressive action to deal with global emissions.
Top contributors
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Adjunct professor, La Trobe University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Climate Change Mitigation and Inequality, University of Cape Town
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PhD Candidate in climate change and sustainability, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Anglia Ruskin University
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Principal Academic, Eastern Institute of Technology
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Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science, University of Stirling
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Économiste-modélisateur, Agence française de développement (AFD)
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Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford
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PhD Candidate in Sustainability, University of Warwick
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Professor of Sustainability, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
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Senior Lecturer, Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment, Imperial College London
