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Articles Policy & Strategy

This time it is not business as usual. Empty streets, no people, no cars, clear blue skies, producing less, consuming less, reinventing habits, schedule and priorities. It looks like fiction, but it is real. And global. What happens next door…

Articles CCS Policy & Strategy

Northern lights – send us your CO2

In March, a consortium of oil giants Equinor, Shell, and Total finished drilling an exploratory well off the coast of Norway. This time not searching for oil or gas, but in the hope of sending CO2 to be permanently stored…

Articles Climate Change Sustainability

Change diet, add lentils first

Climate change must be stopped before it stops us! How can we do this? We must evolve from a fossil-fuel driven economy to a more sustainable one. Many industries burn vast amounts of fossil fuels. The result is an increase…

Articles Smart cities

Sustainable urban planning makes smarter cities

The world is moving away from traditional energy sources towards more efficient and smarter energy systems. The Smart City concept is not new anymore, and it’s slowly gaining traction. The ‘smart’ concept has evolved from technology-driven progress towards social values.…

Articles Power to X

The flexible virtues of PtX

The Power of X – not talking here about the Marvel mutant superheroes, but about technologies that can help us to fight climate change. Southwestern Iceland, 2011: the George Olah plant marks a milestone for CO2 utilisation from carbon capture…

Articles Biomass Climate Change

The Great Biomass Boondoggle

The urgency of the climate crisis is inspiring some extreme and unproven ideas for how to hide carbon and cool the planet, such as ocean fertilization, turning CO2 into rocks, and seeding the atmosphere to dim the sun. Arguably one…

Articles Biofuels Climate Change

Brazil sugarcane growth can meet biofuel need and not drive deforestation

Sugarcane production in Brazil could expand by more than 5 million hectares (19,305 square miles) by 2030 to meet demand for ethanol biofuels, according to a study published in the journal Energy Policy — with potential impacts on the nation’s…

Articles Climate Change Renewables

Renewable fuels will not solve aviation’s climate dilemma

Powering aeroplanes with renewable fuels is crucial for making flying less climate-damaging, but it will get aviation nowhere near climate neutrality, environmental NGOs, industry representatives and researchers agreed at a conference in Berlin. They said that making synthetic fuels with…

Articles Innovation

Can mobile payment apps spur green living?

Ant Forest turns an Alipay user’s environmentally friendly actions into “green energy”, which they can then use to plant and nurture a virtual tree. When the tree reaches a certain size, Alipay will plant a real one. In September, Ant…

Articles Climate Change Fossil Fuels

UN report: Pollution from planned fossil fuel production would overshoot Paris climate goals

In the 2015 international Paris Climate Agreement, nearly every country [see editor’s note] agreed to try and limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and preferably closer to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit)…