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Swelling amount of plastic in the ocean confirmed by new study

...ce and become much more aware of their use of plastics,” she said. She was quick to caution that these data from chance encounters aren’t quantitative, meaning they can’t accurately assess the amount ...

18 Apr 2019

Swelling amount of plastic in the ocean confirmed by new study

cooling off by Qianhai Lake in Beijing's Shichahai

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change will increase deaths by suicide

...conceptual framework—for example using systems thinking—is a crucial step toward developing public policy, practice and research that will equip us to respond to climate change. Climate change is a da...

7 Sep 2018

Climate change will increase deaths by suicide

News / Carbon & Climate

World set for 3.4˚C by 2100

...Climate Action Tracker is an independent science-based assessment that each year tracks countries’ emission commitments and actions. Its members are Climate Analytics, Ecofys and NewClimate Institute...

16 Nov 2017

World set for 3.4˚C by 2100

News / Energy

Energy efficiency cuts carbon from buildings

...ch team is from the Climate Action Tracker (CAT), an independent scientific analysis produced by three research organisations who since 2009 have tracked climate action towards the Paris Agreement’s a...

16 Apr 2018

Energy efficiency cuts carbon from buildings

News / Carbon & Climate

Global green vision is doable, with an effort

...corporations down to individual consumers and citizens need to act in concert to avoid dangerous climate change while improving human wellbeing. Our scenario offers a roadmap as to how this can be ach...

8 Jun 2018

Global green vision is doable, with an effort

News / Carbon & Climate

Land rights, forests, food systems central to limiting global warming

...cymakers, which included a heightened role for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) as potential significant contributors to climate mitigation – technologies that are controversial, cost...

18 Oct 2018

Land rights, forests, food systems central to limiting global warming

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The distraction of plastic pollution

...ch bigger problems facing the world we live in—specifically climate change. In October last year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produced a report detailing drastic action needed ...

22 Feb 2019

The distraction of plastic pollution

Opinion / Energy

Coronavirus has cut CO2 from Europe’s electricity system by 39 per cent

...cated to electricity vehicle charging, not one seems to include a pricing structure that encourages consumers to choose the cheapest point overnight to charge their car. Grid stability The current cr...

4 May 2020

Coronavirus has cut CO2 from Europe’s electricity system by 39 per cent

News / Carbon & Climate

Spain brings fresh impetus to climate fight after lost decade

...cade of inaction on climate change brought on by a harsh economic recession during which he said the country lost its passion and creativity to tackle the issue. Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez, who ca...

21 Jan 2019

Spain brings fresh impetus to climate fight after lost decade

News / Carbon & Climate

Coral reefs can’t wait for world to take action, urges UN, as Biodiversity Conference gets underway

...Conservancy, the Wildlife Conservation Society, Vulcan Inc., the Ocean Agency, and the Secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). “The expectations for this coalition could not be...

15 Nov 2018

Coral reefs can’t wait for world to take action, urges UN, as Biodiversity Conference gets underway

News / Manufacturing

Apple wins global award for efforts to eradicate slave labour

...chains public in a bid to boost transparency and help end modern slavery. Since 2012 Apple says it has reduced the number of underage workers in its extended supply chain, which includes locations whe...

15 Nov 2018

Apple wins global award for efforts to eradicate slave labour

News / Cities

World’s great cities hold key to fossil fuel cuts

...concentrations of economic growth: 600 urban centres are thought to account for about 60 per cent of global gross domestic product. Cities may drive climate change, but they are also concentrations of...

7 Jun 2018

World’s great cities hold key to fossil fuel cuts

News / Energy

Energy-hungry Cambodia shows no sign of backing down on coal

...critical technology, which can ensure lower emissions. “Most of the coal power plants with installed capacity of less than 400 MW generally do not use ultra-supercritical technology for high efficienc...

13 Sep 2018

Energy-hungry Cambodia shows no sign of backing down on coal

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What does the IPCC special report say about forests?

...ch cools the air; affecting the release of aerosols and biogenic volatile organic compounds, which can affect cloud formation; and changing the roughness of Earth’s surface, which can affect wind spee...

13 Aug 2019

What does the IPCC special report say about forests?

Cargo ship swept ashore by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines

News / Carbon & Climate

How will you respond to the IPCC's urgent climate warning?

...campaigner, coal and air pollution, Greenpeace After the IPCC report, there's been a flurry of "what you can do to avoid the climate crisis" articles that reduce us to consumers. Personal consumption ...

15 Oct 2018

How will you respond to the IPCC's urgent climate warning?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

No room for complacency on 1.5°C climate change threshold

...C threshold and creating a low-carbon economy would add as much as $12 trillion to global GDP, compared to a scenario in which the world sticks to current policies and emissions-reduction pledges. The...

24 Oct 2017

No room for complacency on 1.5°C climate change threshold

News / Food & Agriculture

What 2018 has in store for sustainable palm oil

...comes from the meeting, which unfortunately coincided with the eruption of volcano Mount Agung, included the launch of RSPO's 2017 impacts report. This documented a 70 per cent increase in RSPO-certif...

7 Mar 2018

What 2018 has in store for sustainable palm oil

Opinion / Manufacturing

Fairtrade renewable energy: Shedding light on clean energy's dirty secrets

...ch is conscious of the threat of climate change, we must not lose our social conscience and ignore where the materials to build that system come from. Ideas such as the Circular Economy are challengi...

8 Aug 2018

Fairtrade renewable energy: Shedding light on clean energy's dirty secrets

News / Carbon & Climate

Hotter world than predicted may be here by 2100

...ch could mean more warmth is trapped in the atmosphere – or it could mean more clouds, which reflect more solar radiation back into space. For decades, researchers have tried to calculate with precisi...

12 Dec 2017

Hotter world than predicted may be here by 2100

woman charging phone through solar panels

News / Energy

Switch to clean energy and save $500 mln, aid agencies told

...ces to reach off-grid relief camps. That creates costs that humanitarian groups can ill afford, with wars, persecution and other violence having uprooted a record 68.5 million people last year, accord...

11 Dec 2018

Switch to clean energy and save $500 mln, aid agencies told

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