This post is by Isaac Beevor, partnerships director at Climate Emergency UK. For the first time, English councils have collectively called for a legal duty to tackle the climate crisis. Councils have redeclared that tackling the climate crisis should continue to be a top priority, […]
Governments are scrambling to encourage investment in the AI sector. In the US, President Trump is pushing for a ten year pause on AI regulation. Meanwhile in the UK, the government plans to establish “AI growth zones”, which include the data centres needed to store […]
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband faces a legal deadline to publish a new climate action plan by the end of October after the High Court ruled last year that the previous government’s strategy was unlawful. The plan will chart a path to meet the UK’s carbon […]
Calls for more research into carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies and carbon capture applications are coming from many quarters (Amann and Hartmann, 2019; Landau, 2018; Nekuda, 2019; Bipartisan Policy Center report, 2019; Budinis et al, 2016). We need to build on the National Academies of...
We need a carbon removal portfolio (CRP)* to keep temperatures from breaching the limits contained in the Paris Agreement (2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial norms). Even if we were to stop emitting carbon into the atmosphere today we would still need to siphon carbon out of the atmosphere to...
Electric bikes (e-bikes) have come a long way in recent years. There are now many options that include everything from foldable utilitarian commuters to powerful off-roaders. E-bikes are the fastest-growing two-wheeled vehicle segment in the world today. They are an efficient way to get around...
We are on the cusp of surpassing climate tipping points from which we may not be able to recover. There have been thousands of studies documenting the veracity of anthropogenic climate change and its wide-ranging catastrophic impacts have been extensively investigated by researchers. There is a...
There is a massive environmental toll associated with gift-giving, but what if you could give a gift that not only generates no waste but actually improves the state of the climate? Thanks to what is described as “the world’s most sustainable gift” you can. Climeworks’ Climate Pioneers Program...
Here is a succinct yet comprehensive primer on carbon dioxide removal (CDR)*. This short video presentation was prepared and narrated by CDR researcher Richard Matthews. After reviewing the three major categories of CDR (natural climate solutions, carbon capture, and direct air capture) Richard...
This is an Inside Track long read by Shaun Spiers, executive director of Green Alliance Carbon Brief is an invaluable digest of climate news. Its daily emails in the four working days last week included the following stories (I could have highlighted many more). An […]
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