The Climate Change Committee has laid out a road map for net zero emissions that the UK government could follow.
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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.
Households shouldn’t have to do all the heavy lifting in the renewables transition. A new solar farm shows organisations and businesses how it’s done.
Carbon offsetting is better regulated than it once was, but it’s no solution to the climate crisis.
By self-isolating, people all over the world are acting for the collective good. That’s encouraging for tackling climate change.
Simple maths reveals Labor’s policy, if replicated by all other nations, would not avert dangerous global warming.
Sweeping changes are in store for British farming, but they’re not guaranteed to benefit struggling ecosystems.
Who wins, who loses and whose natures are being talked about when nature-based solutions are proposed?
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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Adjunct Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor Emerita, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Climateworks Centre - Country Lead, Australia, Monash University
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Senior DECRA Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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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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Associate Professor in Property, The University of Melbourne
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James Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin School, Environmental Change Institute and Institute for Science Innovation and Society, University of Oxford
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Honorary Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Advanced Building Design, University of Hertfordshire
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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CEO, Climateworks Centre
