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Forest emissions scheme makes ‘tiny’ contribution to Indonesia’s Paris targets
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Urban Britain’s potential as a ‘grow your own veggies’ nation
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Cracking chimpanzee culture
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Green backyards help increase urban climate resilience: Here is how
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Limited evidence that carbon tax rebates have increased public support for carbon pricing
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 January 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01270-9We find limited evidence that individual or household rebates (also called dividends) have increased public support...
Limited impacts of carbon tax rebate programmes on public support for carbon pricing
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 January 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01268-3Carbon tax rebate programmes have received increasing interest with the potential to raise public support for...
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