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The world added a record amount of energy from renewable sources in 2016 and global coal use fell again, according to the 2017 BP...
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Just over a year ago, the G7 group of nations pledged to end all “inefficient fossil fuel subsidies” by 2025.
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Analysis: Meeting Paris pledges would prevent at least 1C of global warming
President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change has raised questions about the effectiveness of the accord, and how that...
IEA: World can reach ‘net zero’ emissions by 2060 to meet Paris climate goals
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Global reaction: Trump pulls US out of Paris Agreement on climate change
President Donald Trump has, after months of procrastination and deliberation, carried through with one of his campaign pledges by announcing that he will withdraw...
Global reaction: Trump pulls US out of Paris Agreement on climate change
President Donald Trump has, after months of procrastination and deliberation, carried through with one of his campaign pledges by announcing that he will withdraw...
Guest post: Is the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet inevitable?
Prof Christina Hulbe is geophysicist in the School of Surveying at the University of Otago in New Zealand, and Dr Christian Ohneiser is a...
Mapped: How ‘embodied’ footprints compare across Europe
Households in the south-west of England are some of the most carbon intensive in Europe, a new study shows.
The paper, published this month in...
Factcheck: Whale strandings and offshore windfarms
Last Saturday, two dead whales washed up on the coast of Suffolk, in eastern England, and a third was spotted floating at sea.
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