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Pay-monthly option for heat pumps could help Europe cut emissions

16 June 2023

Customers in the UK, Germany and Italy will soon be able to replace gas boilers with heat pumps from Swedish company Aira and pay a monthly fee instead of a hefty installation cost


CarbFix CO2 injection site

The green tech that could help Iceland become carbon neutral by 2040

4 January 2023

Iceland is developing a suite of technologies to help it reach carbon neutrality by 2040 – and its research could help other countries go green too


Smoke coming from chimneys at a coal power plant

Global fossil fuel emissions set to rise by 1 per cent in 2022

11 November 2022

This year will see a smaller jump in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels compared with 2021, driven partly by the continuing recovery of aviation following covid-19 travel restrictions


2CCPWCA Viru bog study trail in Lahemaa National Park, estonia

There's a huge flaw in the EU's draft net-zero carbon emissions plan

1 April 2022

The European Union’s plan to achieve climate neutrality could lead to more deforestation because it ignores what happens when more land is used to produce bioenergy


Woman watching streaming video

Binge watching TV isn't as bad for the climate as some reports suggest

28 February 2020

Two analyses suggest earlier studies overestimated CO2 emissions due to the massive growth in internet traffic and video streaming, but they are still substantial


EU will limit the use of palm oil as car fuel but won’t stop it

EU will limit the use of palm oil as car fuel but won’t stop it

14 June 2018

The European Union will make only minor tweaks to “renewable” energy policies that are actually increasing greenhouse gas emissions and driving deforestation


Europeans now burn more palm oil in their cars than they eat

Europeans now burn more palm oil in their cars than they eat

6 June 2018

Palm oil consumption in the EU jumped by 7 per cent in 2017 because it is increasingly used as a biofuel – driving the destruction of orangutans’ habitat


Worst-case climate change scenario is even worse than we thought

Worst-case climate change scenario is even worse than we thought

14 May 2018

A possible future that climatologists treat as the worst of the worst, because it would produce huge greenhouse gas emissions, might lead to even more emissions than believed


We messed up our figures on how much carbon dioxide is too much

We messed up our figures on how much carbon dioxide is too much

14 May 2018

Climatologists have tried to set a “carbon budget” that tells us how much greenhouse gas we can emit and stay below 2°C, but their efforts have only caused confusion


Latest climate talks actually made progress despite US obstinacy

Latest climate talks actually made progress despite US obstinacy

21 November 2017

While the US tried to promote “clean coal” at the COP23 Bonn climate meeting, other countries called for the dirty fossil fuel to be rapidly phased out


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