Legal challenge to Project Ireland 2040 opens today

March 10th, 2020 A legal challenge to the Government’s adoption of Project Ireland 2040 on grounds of climate change concerns opens today in the High Court. Last...

Analysis: Fuel-duty freeze has increased UK CO2 emissions by up to 5%

The freeze in fuel duty since 2010 means the UK’s CO2 emissions are as much as 5% higher than they would have been, Carbon...

World’s intact tropical forests reached ‘peak carbon uptake’ in 1990s

This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Simon Lewis The world’s land surface currently removes around 30% of all human-generated CO2 emissions, with tropical forests playing a...

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