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Ad hoc, lot-by-lot efforts to house more people in our ageing suburbs are failing to increase liveability and sustainability. Our cities need strategic, precinct-scale regeneration.
Our net zero story has been recognised with a journalism award from Covering Climate Now, a 460-strong media partnership focused on driving coverage of the climate crisis.
The New Zealand government has set the goal of net zero by 2050 but to get there, New Zealanders will need to let go of our big cars and embrace smaller options.
It wouldn’t be a modern Australian election campaign without the words “carbon tax” being thrown around.So lets clear a few things up.
For the NHS to achieve net zero, it needs to sort out its supply chains and prioritise community health.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Principal (Global Sustainability) and Director Research Centre for Carbon Solutions (RCCS), Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Research Fellow in the politics of industrial decarbonisation policy, University of Sussex
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Professor in Energy and Climate Governance, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Executive Director, Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Emeritus Professor in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
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Deputy Program Director, Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Environment + Energy Editor and Host of the Climate Fight podcast series, The Conversation
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Andrew N. Liveris Academy for Innovation and Leadership & Professor and Chair in Sustainable Energy Futures, The University of Queensland
