How do the parties propose to tackle the climate crisis?
Election contenders have been setting out plans to win over voters concerned about the environment.
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The transition from fossils to renewables and its impact on consumer prices.
The impact isn’t uniform.
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R-UK showcases wind and marine energy exports.
The UK is exporting products and services from wind, wave and tidal energy to 37 countries across six continents, according to a new report from RenewableUK.
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Scientists and climate advisers condemn Tory environmental record.
The Conservative party’s record on tackling the climate crisis has been condemned by leading scientists and former government advisers, as the Labour leader, Jeremy Corby
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Big Oil Shareholders Look To Cash In On Renewable Boom.
Big Oil’s shift to renewables will result in a veritable windfall for their shareholders, Norway’s energy consultancy Rystad has said, as quoted by Bloomberg.
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Modified quantum dots capture more energy from light and lose less to heat.
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have synthesized magnetically-doped quantum dots that capture the kinetic energy of electrons created by ultraviolet light before it's wasted as heat.
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Increasing Europe’s R&I budget is critical to grow the economy and fight climate change
Without an increased investment in research and innovation, the European Union will be unable to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, and will lose out to economic rivals on the competitive advantage this could present, writes Connie Hedegaard.
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Will Germany block EIB plans to ditch natural gas?
The European Investment Bank wants to purge its loan books of fossil fuels, including natural gas, by 2020.
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German government wants to weaken country’s proposed climate protection goals.
Although many have called for improvements to the German climate package, the government wants to impose a weaker formulation of the core climate protection goals.
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Denmark calls for EU plan to phase out diesel and petrol cars.
Denmark, backed by 10 other European Union countries, on Friday (4 October 2019) called for a strategy to phase out diesel and petrol cars, including allowing the ban of sales at national-level by 2030 to combat climate change.
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Air travel growth suggests ‘sustainable’ and ‘development’ are not compatible.
Air travel is not the only threat to life on earth, but it is a useful barometer of runaway economic growth and development that, if allowed to continue unmitigated, will irreparably harm the planet, writes Jonathan Gornall.
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No future for gas without greening as soon as possible.
In the search for alternatives to fossil fuels, gas as an energy vector has the capacity to play a decisive role. To do this, it is absolutely necessary to green our gas as much as possible, writes Jean-François Carenco.
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Formula 1 announces plan to be carbon neutral by 2030.
Formula 1 has announced their ambitious sustainability programme to become net zero by 2030. The new initiative will start immediately with a number of carbon reducing projects to help towards Formula 1 on the road to becoming a sustainable sport.
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Scientists endorse mass civil disobedience to force climate action.
LONDON - Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict “incalculable human suffering.”
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Climate defenders: The woman helping coal miners to save the planet.
The burning of coal is a huge driver of climate change but it’s also estimated that coal mining employs around six million people worldwide and is the lynch-pin of many communities.
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Arctic sea ice coverage shrinks to record low: NOAA.
Arctic sea ice receded to record lows in October, according to data released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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‘Insect apocalypse’ poses risk to all life on Earth, conservationists warn.
Report claims 400,000 insect species face extinction amid heavy use of pesticides.
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Amazon deforestation 'at highest level in a decade'.
Almost 10,000 sq kms lost in year to August, according to Brazilian government data.
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Air pollution nanoparticles linked to brain cancer for first time.
Exclusive: tiny particles produced by motor traffic can invade the brain and carry carcinogens. New research has linked air pollution nanoparticles to brain cancer for the first time.
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