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Because pledges alone won’t achieve net zero.
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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.
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‘Carbon sinks’ like forests and the soil have already been factored into the carbon budget – they should not be double-counted.
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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.
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Energy efficiency and electrification should lead the effort to decarbonise society, not hydrogen.
Artist rendition of the National Western Center, a net-zero campus under construction in Denver to house multiple activities.
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Net zero energy buildings produce at least as much energy as they use. Designing whole net zero campuses and communities takes the energy and climate benefits to a higher level.
The Groningen gas field in the Netherlands was discovered in 1959, and is the largest natural gas field in Europe.
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The case for carbon pricing is not as ironclad as the case for climate action.
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Britain’s electricity supply is getting greener but the burning question remains over how to decarbonise heating.
How green will he really be?
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After his landslide victory, Boris Johnson declared his ambition to make his country ‘the cleanest, greenest on Earth’. Here’s what he needs to do to prove it.
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Wales is one small country with big carbon targets but that still needs the policies to deliver them.
Huge crowds marched last week to demand progress towards net zero emissions – and companies are listening.
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Some of Australia’s biggest property companies are making ambitious emissions-reduction pledges – but how well are they really doing?
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Labour’s next manifesto could be defined by a radical proposal for tackling climate change.
A view of the opening video played at the start of the UN’s 2019 Climate Action Summit.
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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.
Ratcliffe-on-Soar, one of 7 UK coal-fired power plants still in service.
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At current rates of reduction, the UK’s fair carbon budget will be spent in just four years’ time.
Our consumption is not without impacts.
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Putting all of our eggs in the net zero basket is merely kicking the can down the road.
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The Committee on Climate Change criticises slow progress, but has little to say about how to reconfigure government to make climate action a priority.
The greening of university spaces, as demonstrated by the University of Warsaw’s library, can also help universities lower emissions.
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Academic research has awakened society to the scale of the climate emergency – now universities must lead the way on the solution.
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The bold pronouncements of 2019 must mean something through the 2020s and beyond.
The emissions from this tanker don’t count towards the UK’s emissions target.
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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.