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Producing energy from harvested trees and other plants – bioenergy – might sound like a greener option, but it’s not a simple issue.
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Yes we need land for solar panels, wind farms, batteries, pumped hydro, transmission lines and so on. But the amount of land is surprisingly small, when you do the sums. Here’s why.
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Looming carbon budget deadlines pose a challenge for the UK’s flagship climate legislation.
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While some countries are more likely than others to sign an international agreement to phase out fossil fuels, measures to tackle fossil fuel demand by adding a higher carbon price are essential.
Aluminium is an important global ingredient in industrial development.
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Ghana has spent over 60 years trying to build an aluminium industry.
Solar panels pave a square in Zadar, Croatia.
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Modellers of the energy transition have tended to neglect fractious international relations in their calculations.
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Cutting wealth inequality could curb the super-rich’s disproportionate share of emissions.
Cheap and plentiful supplies of naturally occurring hydrogen could be right beneath our feet.
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Gold hydrogen is naturally occurring gas trapped in pockets under the ground – in much the same way as oil and natural gas
Countries agreed to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels, but oil and gas firms are ramping up production.
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The distinction between ‘abated’ and ‘unabated’ fossil fuels is crucial, yet remains ambiguous.
Hybrid systems combine two or more technologies to heat a house.
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Oil and gas must be eliminated from heating systems over the coming years.
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To avert climate breakdown, most of the world’s coal, oil and gas must stay underground.
Steel factories, like this one in China, are major sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Industry is a leading climate polluter: Our road map shows what’s needed to cut industrial emissions in fast-growing countries.
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner landing at Heathrow international airport in London.
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A flight powered by sustainable aviation fuel is making a trip across the Atlantic. But is it really a greener way to fly?
A cargo vessel with Flettner rotors – a modern equivalent to sails.
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Modern mariners can harness trade winds to reduce carbon emissions.
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It’s still possible for Australia to cut emissions in line with holding climate change to 1.5°C. Here’s how.
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30 of the 50 economists surveyed want a carbon price of the kind introduced by Julia Gillard in 2012 and abolished by Tony Abbott in 2014. Several say there’s little “time left to act seriously”.
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The use of fossil fuels carries a much heavier greenhouse gas penalty.
Workers hats on fence outside Victoria’s closed Hazelwood power station, March 2017.
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Four years after being made redundant, workers in coal-fired power stations made redundant make only one half of what they used to.
The corporate rush to reduce the environmental footprint of their food supply chains poses several challenges for farmers.
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Big name food brands are pursuing decarbonisation – but they are squeezing farmers in the process.
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Policies and funds to decarbonise high-emitting industries and electrify transport are already delivering emissions cuts. But they are at risk of being disestablished or weakened.