Winning ‘hearts and minds’ for the energy transition
For the past three years, the R&Dialogue project has been working on facilitating social acceptance for the transition to a low carbon society. Endorsed by…
For the past three years, the R&Dialogue project has been working on facilitating social acceptance for the transition to a low carbon society. Endorsed by…
While plants in temperate zones may benefit from higher temperatures, global warming’s impact in the tropics threatens catastrophe for food security. LONDON, 20 June,…
Humanity currently uses the equivalent resources of 1.6 Earths, with carbon sequestration making up more than half of that demand on nature, according to data…
Three days ago the United States and China pledged to strengthen cooperation on climate and clean energy. Boom. Enthusiasm everywhere. When the US and China…
100 to go. Developed country Parties under the Kyoto Protocol today enter the final 100 days of the emission reduction treaty’s accounting period during which they ensure…
High expectations are being built around the forthcoming 21st Conference of the Parties (COP-21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will…
President Obama’s Clean Power Plan has rightly been hailed as the most important action any president has taken to address the climate crisis. The new rule…
With Monday’s release of landmark rules to combat global warming, President Obama is putting into place what probably will be the last piece of his…
[…] Earlier in June, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, took the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.2 billion…
Spring, the season of new beginnings, also marked the beginning of something new. In March came data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) indicating global…
Diplomats in Paris were beaming when the world’s most populous country announced plans to start cutting its net CO2 emissions “around 2030”. But environmentalists were…
Inside the brick walls of an electricity plant built along the banks of the Charles River more than a century ago, Harvard is demonstrating just…
A peak in global energy-related emissions could be achieved as early as 2020 and at no net economic cost, the International Energy Agency said in…