Wales is one small country with big carbon targets but that still needs the policies to deliver them.
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Some of Australia's biggest property companies are making ambitious emissions-reduction pledges – but how well are they really doing?
Labour's next manifesto could be defined by a radical proposal for tackling climate change.
Guterres wanted world leaders to tackle subsidies for fossil fuels, implement taxes on carbon, and end new coal power beyond 2020. None of this happened.
At current rates of reduction, the UK's fair carbon budget will be spent in just four years' time.
Putting all of our eggs in the net zero basket is merely kicking the can down the road.
The Committee on Climate Change criticises slow progress, but has little to say about how to reconfigure government to make climate action a priority.
Academic research has awakened society to the scale of the climate emergency – now universities must lead the way on the solution.
The bold pronouncements of 2019 must mean something through the 2020s and beyond.
Contrary to the advice of the UK's climate advisers, aiming for net zero before 2050 is credible – but the country must reassess how much its future is worth.
Top contributors
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Researcher, University of Manchester
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Head of Research, ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University
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Research Fellow, Exeter University; Professor in Practice,, Lancaster University
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Lecturer, University of Manchester
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Lecturer in Management and Marketing, University of Essex
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Research Associate in Energy Policy, University of Exeter
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Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey
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Professor of Biology, University of St Andrews
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Professorial Fellow, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI), University of Sheffield
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Research Fellow, University of South Wales
