From time to time it is worth revisiting the rationale behind various initiatives, in part to better understand them but also to bring clarity to …
Category: Net zero emissions
Climate Risks and ‘Hothouse Earth’
A new paper by researchers from a number of institutions, but including the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, has made …
What does the carbon dioxide shortage tell us about the energy transition?
Much has been made in the UK media over the last week or so regarding the shortage of carbon dioxide as an industrial gas. The …
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Achieving the balance
The Paris Agreement calls for a “balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of the …
A CCS gold rush?
Later this year, the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C will be released and it is very likely to put great emphasis on the importance of …
It’s all in the numbers
One of the noteworthy features of the 160+ nationally determined contributions (NDC) submitted to the UNFCCC following the adoption (and now ratification) of the Paris …
Closing another technology door?
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have now released 2017 temperature data, showing the year to be the third warmest on record, but also the …
