What the food industry isn’t telling us about carbon emissions
Food is the second biggest emitter of manmade greenhouse gases. But many UK food companies don’t reveal the scale of their supply chain emissions.
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Delayism and disinformation
Misinformation about climate change remains rife on social media. Platforms must first define and then counter the problem before it causes more harm.
Betting the farm
The UK government’s food strategy was an opportunity to cut emissions, rewild the country and rebalance diets away from meat. But the document that arrived this week puts tech fixes ahead of transformational change.
The catalyst of war
The coming years of decarbonisation are going to be messy – but war or no war, the transformation is necessary
A bump in the road for EVs
Before electric vehicles become ubiquitous and affordable, automakers will need to fix their supply chain issues.
Time to stop worrying about climate risk?
What an indiscreet banker tells us about finance and net zero
Green wave
Voters across the world care about the climate – so why don’t green parties do better at the ballot box, and could something be about to change?
Stay grounded
Flying will always come with a hefty carbon footprint. The best way to green the industry is to avoid it
China’s coal revival
A series of domestic and international crises have deepened China’s addiction to coal. What will it take to wean it off?
Future farming
The UK is using its limited land badly. Government plans won’t make agriculture change fast enough
Removals required
We’ll need a wider variety of ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere if we’re going to keep the planet cool.
Energy security crisis 2.0
The West doesn’t control the resources it needs to build a renewable energy future. China does
Nuclear option
Nuclear power is a key part of the government’s strategy, but an inadequate solution to the energy crisis and the need for immediate and deep decarbonisation
Gas guzzlers
In a climate and energy crisis, the UK’s leaky, old housing stock is an extravagance neither people nor the planet can afford.
Hydrogen’s close-up
It’s getting cheaper to make the energy-storing gas using renewables – and that could help the world through the energy crisis.
Drill, baby, drill
It’s tempting to believe the solution to cutting soaring energy bills is lying beneath our feet. But after a decade dreaming of a US-style shale revolution, fracking has failed to deliver.
Six months to lights out
If Europe were to survive next winter without Russian gas, it would have to shift to a wartime footing. In the short term that could put net zero at risk. In the longer term it could accelerate climate action
Flood warning
Part two of the IPCC landmark report on climate change highlights both the risks and opportunities for cities.
Sun block
There is no net zero without Africa, and that’s a problem
Climate backlash
The government needs to make it clear to the public that net zero remains a priority, despite high gas prices and calls to delay from the backbench.
Reoility Check
The oil majors are reporting soaring profits, but the pressure on them to decarbonise continues to mount. Driving down demand could force them to go faster.
Beijing breathes
The Beijing Winter Olympics are taking place in an area completely unsuited to winter sports. But at least the air will be clearer than it was in 2008
Plastic problem
The world creates 300 million tonnes of plastic waste every year – but companies still can’t get enough recycled material to stop using it brand new.
Siberia melts
Permafrost covers nine million square miles of the Earth’s surface – and it’s thawing faster than ever. Will the big melt become a climate feedback loop?
Ready, set, Gfanz
At Cop26 last year, financial institutions made a $130 trillion promise to save the planet. How’s it going so far?
You say green, I say greenwash
The EU is trying to define what constitutes a “green” investment, but member states have conflicting ideas about what that really means.
The cap fits
Imagine a world in which carbon cap and trade systems actually worked. Guess what? It’s happening.
Climate intelligence
Humans aren’t finding climate solutions fast enough. Luckily, machines can help.
How to clean up
Natural and unnatural disasters can cut carbon emissions, but so can the right policies.
Green bills
US Congress has a habit of killing off climate-focused legislation. Can Biden’s transformative bill make it through?
Core Cop
Cop survives as a way to progress the fight against climate change but only because this year’s host spent a lot of energy on key deals outside the core agenda.
Promises and compromises
Will a deal emerge from Glasgow that has the teeth to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees? Or will the forces of inactivism prevail?
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