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.
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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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Deputy Program Director, Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
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Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds
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Professor in Energy and Climate Governance, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
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CEO, Climateworks Centre
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Executive Director, Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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CEO and Scientific Director, Ocean Frontier Institute; Professor and Associate VP Research, Dalhousie University
