COP26: here's what it would take to end coal power worldwide
Nov 06, 2021 08:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
More than 40 countries have signed an agreement at COP26, the latest UN climate change summit in Glasgow, to phase out coal in electricity generation. The signatories include some of the worlds biggest coal burners:...
COP26: a letter to a school striker from 'the physicist behind net zero'
Nov 06, 2021 08:05 am UTC| Insights & Views
Dear school striker, Well done on all you are doing you seem to have made more impact on the climate issue in the past couple of years than Ive managed in the previous three decades working away on it, and Ive been...
Climate change: how economists underestimated benefits of action for decades
Oct 31, 2021 23:33 pm UTC| Economy
The costs of doing nothing vastly outweigh the costs of decarbonising a global economy which, since the Industrial Revolution, has been powered by fossil fuels. That may seem self-evident today, when catastrophic fires and...
How to meet America’s climate goals: 5 policies for Biden’s next climate bill
Oct 31, 2021 23:27 pm UTC| Politics
President Joe Bidens new climate strategy, announced after his original plan crumbled under opposition in Congress, will represent a historic investment in clean energy technology and infrastructure if it is enacted. But...
The most influential climate science paper of all time
Oct 09, 2021 08:29 am UTC| Science
After the second world war, many of Japans smartest scientists found jobs in North American laboratories. Syukuro (Suki) Manabe, a 27-year-old physicist, was part of this brain drain. He was working on weather forecasting...
Conservation works better when local communities lead it, new evidence shows
Oct 09, 2021 08:26 am UTC| Nature Life Science
We are currently facing a mass extinction of plants and animals. To remedy this, world leaders have pledged a huge expansion of protected areas ahead of the UN biodiversity summits to be held in October 2021 and May 2022...
Tweets, emails or hand-written notes? What gets politicians to speak up on climate
Sep 27, 2021 23:37 pm UTC| Politics
With the United Nations-led climate negotiations set to occur in November, citizens around the world have reason to despair at their governments efforts to tackle climate change. Existing national policies put the planet...
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