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Carbon law could make Paris promise a reality

...ce Centre, Stockholm University. And his co-author Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, said: “Our civilisation needs to reach a socio-economic tip...

3 Apr 2017

Carbon law could make Paris promise a reality

Opinion / Energy

7 climate change myths that big oil continues to perpetuate

...climate change, CCS is yet another sticking plaster approach. Even CCS advocates suggest that it cannot currently be employed on a global, mass scale. Myth 2: Climate change won’t spell the end of the...

23 Feb 2018

7 climate change myths that big oil continues to perpetuate

News / Carbon & Climate

CO2 levels heading back to days of dinosaurs

...cancel out the warming effect caused by the Sun brightening through time, so in the long term it appears the net effect of both was pretty much constant on average.” So the coincidence of a greenhouse...

10 Apr 2017

CO2 levels heading back to days of dinosaurs

News / Carbon & Climate

Scientists launch contest to 'eggsplain' climate change to Trump

...climate change is a serious concern, an Australian conservation science alliance on Thursday launched a contest inviting people to send in photographs of an egg frying on a pavement. The Alliance of...

31 Jan 2017

Scientists launch contest to 'eggsplain' climate change to Trump

hurricane Maria destruction in Puerto Rico

News / Carbon & Climate

The top 5 carbon and climate stories in 2017

...cate it will implement a carbon pricing scheme, scheduled for 2019. In May, Bangladesh announced plans for a carbon tax on fuel but soon backtracked because officials were reluctant to increase the co...

26 Dec 2017

The top 5 carbon and climate stories in 2017

Children plant mangrove saplings in the Philippines

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change and the Philippine seas: Unlocking blue carbon solutions for a cooler planet

...CBFM) contract to ensure that the community will always have the agency and power over their resources. Communities should always be in the spotlight in scaling up blue carbon solutions. Technical ass...

3 Apr 2018

Climate change and the Philippine seas: Unlocking blue carbon solutions for a cooler planet

Flood encroaches upon communities in Mumbai India

News / Carbon & Climate

Rethink needed on Paris emissions targets

...ch respective month since records began in 1979. March was measured at the second lowest ever. The nations that met in Paris recognised that even a rise of 2°C could have calamitous consequences for d...

17 Aug 2016

Rethink needed on Paris emissions targets

News / Energy

NGOs to Singapore banks: Act on climate change and stop funding coal

...consequences of climate change, Singapore’s banks must follow the lead taken by their European and North American counterparts and stop funding new coal power plants. The coalition includes advocacy ...

8 Feb 2018

NGOs to Singapore banks: Act on climate change and stop funding coal

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate treaty races towards hazy future

...cy, the Paris Agreement on climate change is ready to come into force a bare 11 months after it was reached on 12 December last year. Its ratification by the European Union means the world will have c...

7 Oct 2016

Climate treaty races towards hazy future

News / Carbon & Climate

Mangrove deforestation emits as much CO2 as Myanmar each year

...ce 2000 that focus on forest cover, mangrove cover, and land cover and combine these into a single product.” Using this data, the researchers calculated the carbon stock of mangroves on a global grid,...

2 Mar 2018

Mangrove deforestation emits as much CO2 as Myanmar each year

News / Energy

Cheap renewables undercut nuclear power

...ccumulated delays and costs. When the project is completed it is expected to increase consumer bills in the state by10 per cent. The continued difficulties of nuclear power are reflected in the French...

8 Jan 2018

Cheap renewables undercut nuclear power

News / Carbon & Climate

Alarm at rise in forest carbon

...climate goals. Bill Collins, professor, University of Reading Uncertain science All three studies are a reminder that climate science is necessarily uncertain, and forecasts of atmospheric condition...

9 Oct 2017

Alarm at rise in forest carbon

ExxonMobil takes on the world's toughest energy challenges

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Shareholders force ExxonMobil to plan for a world with Paris Agreement's emissions restrictions

...cepticism about climate change, ExxonMobil called on the president to keep the United States in the climate accord, along with more than 1,000 major corporations and investors, including ConocoPhillip...

27 Jun 2017

Shareholders force ExxonMobil to plan for a world with Paris Agreement's emissions restrictions

News / Policy & Finance

Paris pledges fall short on emissions

...cline.” That it can be done, and that the Paris target is realistic and achievable, is confirmed by a second group of researchers in Nature Climate Change journal. They reason that the difference betw...

8 Jul 2016

Paris pledges fall short on emissions

Fossil fuel divestment march on Valentine's Day 2015

Opinion / Energy

Zero is the essential number for climate action

...communities: President Obama rejected the Presidential Permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, more recently Turkey cancelled a coal project, and UNESCO just recommended cancelling a coal proje...

4 Nov 2016

Zero is the essential number for climate action

News / Energy

Chinese involvement in Brazilian coal power sector causes concern

...c concern about toxic air pollution in China, its high economic and health costs of toxic air pollution, but also to comply with international climate change agreements. Construction of coal-fired the...

12 Jul 2017

Chinese involvement in Brazilian coal power sector causes concern

News / Transport

Emissions targets need all-electric cars

...Climate Action Tracker (CAT), an independent scientific analysis organisation, focuses on the car sector. “Without swift and extensive deployment of electric vehicles powered by clean electricity, red...

21 Sep 2016

Emissions targets need all-electric cars

News / Carbon & Climate

Methane’s rapid spurt risks climate curbs plan

...ctic watcher says the changes there in the last decade are altering a system which has remained intact since the Ice Age. Methane is the second major greenhouse gas, with agriculture accounting for 40...

15 Dec 2016

Methane’s rapid spurt risks climate curbs plan

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate and the G20 summit: Some progress in greening economies, but more needs to be done

...Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the source of much of the data that makes these comparisons possible. The real challenge the UNFCCC process faces in the next few years as it finalises the “ru...

6 Jul 2017

Climate and the G20 summit: Some progress in greening economies, but more needs to be done

Women drawing rangoli on the floor in India

Opinion / Policy & Finance

How to bring about the Asian Century

...climate change. Finding the financing for this huge investment requires additional public resources through fiscal reforms. It also necessitates much greater private sector finance, which countries ca...

9 May 2017

How to bring about the Asian Century

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