The cost of sustainability is no longer a deal breaker for some business owners, but more can be done to encourage decarbonisation efforts.
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Already lacking the means to decarbonise their industry or turn to greener alternatives, poor countries could also be deprived of revenues from exports to Europe.
Policymakers, industry regulators and investors must team up to mandate that corporations provide CEOs with financial compensation for reducing carbon footprints.
Governments may be forced to put back deadlines to shift away from petrol and diesel.
A period of high fossil fuel prices has mixed implications.
The Australian government may have announced its net zero plan, but it has yet to factor in the health sector or the health of its people.
Scott Morrison’s plan relies on many “heroic” assumptions which may or may not turn out to be reasonable.
Heat pumps are the technology of choice for heating and cooling buildings more efficiently and with fewer carbon emissions than furnaces and air conditioning.
Even if they can’t save us from climate change, society still depends on forests.
Training neural networks burns through a lot of energy. As the AI field grows, it’s working to keep its carbon foot print from growing with it.
The coronavirus pandemic caused the UN’s annual climate conference to be postponed by a year, but it was also responsible for a drop in carbon emissions. Is it enough and will it last?
Making the solutions cheaper – rather than the problems more expensive – could reduce emissions more fairly.
Climate pledges must be more ambitious and focus on early and aggressive action to deal with global emissions.
Making ammonia produces almost 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions.
Carbon accounting isn’t always simple, so it’s important to make it easier to measure and reduce emissions at the local level. And that’s ultimately the starting point for global climate action.
Finding out what would motivate people to reduce their carbon emissions can be determined by examining behaviour.
Top contributors
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Executive Director, Climate and Health Alliance; Honorary Associate, Department of Public Health, La Trobe University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research at the University of Technology Sydney and Chief Investigator of ARC Centre for Excellence in Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Climate Change Mitigation and Inequality, University of Cape Town
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PhD Candidate in climate change and sustainability, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Anglia Ruskin University
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Principal Academic, Eastern Institute of Technology
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Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science, University of Stirling
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Économiste-modélisateur, Agence française de développement (AFD)
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Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford
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PhD Candidate in Sustainability, University of Warwick
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Professor of Sustainability, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
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Senior Lecturer, Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment, Imperial College London
