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Articles Climate Change Policy & Strategy

The long road towards a more environmental energy system

Imagine that you want to heal the earth from the ravages caused by global climate change. You received diagnostic reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Fourth National Climate Assessment. These scientific findings confirm that our…

Articles Climate Change Nature & Environment

If Ebola becomes the norm

Climate change interferes, directly and indirectly, with a wide variety of diseases by acting as a multiplying force for the diffusion of infectious diseases. Global warming promotes the spread of insects that behave as vectors, transmitting the pathogen. In addition,…

Articles Climate Change

Defying Dystopia: shaping the climate future we want

We live in an age of dystopias on demand. Whether it’s Black Mirror, The Hunger Games or The Handmaid’s Tale, there is no limit to satiating our desires for dark, apocalyptic visions of the future. Unfortunately the scariest experience does…

Articles Climate Change

How a Japanese system can help African cities adapt to climate change

Sub-Saharan Africa is already experiencing the realities of a changing climate – and the situation is only going to get worse. The reasons for this are complex. And they’re exacerbated by deficits in the region’s infrastructure, services and socio-economic dynamics.…

Articles Innovation

Tech accelerators help Nonprofits fast-track technology aimed at solving environmental challenges

Imagine a solar panel that could pull moisture from the air and create clean drinking water, using only the power of the sun, for hundreds of millions of people worldwide who currently rely on unsafe or temporary water supplies. And…

Articles Policy & Strategy Solar

How electrification can supercharge the energy transition

No matter which country you’re in, the energy transition is underway. It is taking slightly different shapes and may progress from different starting points depending on the area, but it’s clear we’ve now reached a stage where, globally, we’re all…

Articles CCS

Merkel puts contentious CCS technology back on German agenda

Chancellor Angela Merkel called the controversial carbon capture and storage (CCS) a potentially key element for the country’s efforts to tackle climate change. The country can only become climate-neutral by 2050 if it is willing to employ CCS to deal…

Articles Last Exit

White Bay Power Station

White Bay is a significant item of industrial heritage associated with the evolving pattern of power generation in NSW and Australia. It is characteristic of coal fired power stations from the early twentieth century which serviced the expansion of Australia’s…

Articles Climate Change Policy & Strategy

One Earth Climate Model

A state-of-the-art climate model, funded by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and released by the prestigious scientific publisher Springer Nature, offers a roadmap for meeting — and surpassing — the targets set by the Paris Climate Agreement, showing that we can solve…

Articles Coal

Australian Judge Strikes Down Coal Mine in Part Because of Its Carbon Emissions

In what is likely to be the first of many such rulings, an Australian court has ruled against a coal mine in part on grounds of the environmental damage that burning coal does by contributing to the climate emergency. Burning…

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