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Despite clear air as a result of the pandemic reducing human activities, our emissions still soar.
We calculated what would happen if petrol cars were replaced overnight with Teslas and Nissan Leafs.
Massive study looked at more than half a million trees in 813 forests across the tropics.
Global quarantine is not a long-term solution – we still have a lot of work ahead.
Emissions from Australia’s electricity sector have dropped markedly during the pandemic.
But a recession could cloud the renewables outlook.
Any bailout should include conditions that the airline reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Efficient technologies can save Indonesians not only billions of rupiah but also avoid the need to built 50 power plants by 2030.
The risks to nature from man-made global warming – and the imperative to act – are clear.
The wet and low-lying East Siberian Arctic is likely to be a major methane source in the coming decades.
New lightweight, efficient and ultra-thin solar technologies show promise, but it may be too soon to abandon conventional solar photovoltaics.
Oil palm plantation on remote locations is not mutually exclusive with increase wealth and improve living standards at remote locations.
Climate pledges must be more ambitious and focus on early and aggressive action to deal with global emissions.
Canada keeps revising and updating its emissions targets, diverting attention from its failures to make any progress at all.
Carbon capture and storage has failed to put a dent in global emissions, and the world is running out of time.
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.
The deluge of opinions and proposed solutions to South Africa’s energy crisis reflects corporate and political interests.
CO₂ will need to be removed from the atmosphere to avoid catastrophic heating. Can the process be incentivised?
A technological arms race in the 80s resulted in a world-first solar cell, that today underpins half the world’s solar power.
Top contributors
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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CEO, Climateworks Centre
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Senior Research Associate, Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Analyst, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Departmental Visitor, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University
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Director of Workforce Development, Clean Energy Council, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
