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Articles on decarbonisation
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As well as polluting our seas, plastics are warming the planet too. Urgent changes are needed to eliminate plastic's contribution to climate breakdown.
Investors are increasingly concerned about climate change, but for the markets to deploy their full capacities, the dominant principles that guide them need to be revised.
The UK has made huge progress in decarbonising its energy mix, but the hard work has just begun.
The climate issue cannot be considered less urgent than the social or economic crisis.
The world needs to be carbon-neutral by mid-century to give ourselves a chance of holding global warming to 1.5C. With around 1% of the global carbon budget, Australia needs to rapidly do its share.
Digitalisation and better energy storage are reshaping the electricity market.
We think of decarbonisation as a "cost". But what about the opportunity?
A new analysis by ClimateWorks Australia says that the electricity sector needs to do far more to cut its carbon emissions than will be delivered by current policies.
The digital world is taking more and more space in our lives... and dramatically increasing electrical use. It’s a serious problem given the urgent need fight climate change.
The country's electricity is now the cleanest it has been in 60 years.
Countries have started announcing strategies to cut greenhouse gases over the next 35 years.
Phasing out fossils fuels would go a long way to stopping dangerous climate change – but it might be harder than we thought.
With the failures of past planning now apparent, the unruly threat of a damaged and depleting planet is ushering us toward a fourth era of urban restructuring. What might City v4.0 look like?
The process of decarbonisation is a complex one for South Africa, as most its power supply comes from coal.
Numerous milestones have been reached over the past year as the coal is ditched for lower-carbon alternatives.
Solar power is a key piece of South Africa's energy puzzle.
Tourism is a significant contributor to climate change. But new research suggests that, if we all pitched in, we could decarbonise this global industry for less than the price of an extra checked bag.
NASA once had 400,000 people working on space exploration. We should battle climate change in the same way.
G7 leaders have pledged to help end the world's fossil fuel use by the end of the century. It's a laudable aim, but decarbonisation can and should be done by the middle, not the end, of this century.
Top contributors
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Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham., University of Birmingham
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Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Honorary Research Associate, University of Western Australia
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Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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Professor in Tourism and Marketing, University of Canterbury
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Head of Research, ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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Professor of Energy Engineering, University of Glasgow
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Research Fellow in energy economics and policy, University of Leeds
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Research Fellow, International Relations, The Sussex Energy Group, Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex
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Head of Implementation, ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
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Doctoral Candidate in Energy and Economics, UCL
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Économiste à l’Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (OFCE), Sciences Po – USPC
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PhD Candidate in energy and industrial policy, economic history, domestic and international coal markets, the mining and minerals sectors, and state-business relations in South Africa, University of Cape Town
