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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?
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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?
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Flying will always come with a hefty carbon footprint. The best way to green the industry is to avoid it
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A series of domestic and international crises have deepened China’s addiction to coal. What will it take to wean it off?
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The UK is using its limited land badly. Government plans won’t make agriculture change fast enough
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Is the energy transition only truly happening in the West? Politicians like to point fingers at those who “aren’t doing their bit”. But every country – from China to Kenya – is going through their own transformation…
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We’ll need a wider variety of ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere if we’re going to keep the planet cool.
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The West doesn’t control the resources it needs to build a renewable energy future. China does
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Can the energy transition help rather than hurt the most vulnerable households and communities? Some say the ‘spiralling costs’ of net zero will hit the poorest hardest. But if the right steps are taken, we can deliver cheaper energy bills, greener jobs and healthier communities – and make sure nobody is left behind.
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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
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In a climate and energy crisis, the UK’s leaky, old housing stock is an extravagance neither people nor the planet can afford.
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Can an entire country run on 100 per cent renewables? It will take enormous flexibility, interconnectivity, and storage to make this a reality. In this episode, Lucy and Giles discover how all three of these are currently being developed to an enormous degree…
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It’s getting cheaper to make the energy-storing gas using renewables – and that could help the world through the energy crisis.
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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.
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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
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Part two of the IPCC landmark report on climate change highlights both the risks and opportunities for cities.
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There is no net zero without Africa, and that’s a problem
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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At Cop26 last year, financial institutions made a $130 trillion promise to save the planet. How’s it going so far?
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The EU is trying to define what constitutes a “green” investment, but member states have conflicting ideas about what that really means.
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Snow is surrendering to rain even in the coldest places on the planet, but it can still spring surprises. An unseasonal blizzard in Greenland this year showed how climate change can deliver enough snow in a few days to change the mass of an entire ice sheet
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Imagine a world in which carbon cap and trade systems actually worked. Guess what? It’s happening.
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Humans aren’t finding climate solutions fast enough. Luckily, machines can help.
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Natural and unnatural disasters can cut carbon emissions, but so can the right policies.
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US Congress has a habit of killing off climate-focused legislation. Can Biden’s transformative bill make it through?
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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.
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The lesson of Cop is that it is open to a small number of key protagonists to save the planet. Will they?
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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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The gap between electric vehicle uptake and the infrastructure to charge them is growing. The hassle that will cause could put drivers off
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The amount of carbon put out needs to decrease, the amount taken in to increase. To do that you need to count carbon. Welcome to remote sensing.
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The success of the summit depends on the powerful wielders of the negotiating pen heeding the warnings of the young, of activists and of indigenous peoples
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The law is becoming an increasingly powerful tool in holding companies and countries to account on their emissions – but some cases fail to bring the latest science into the courtroom.
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There are good, natural reasons why flooding rivers and the sea with sewage is a terrible idea. It’s also deeply unpopular
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The UK Cop presidency has made ending coal use its main mission. Will a new global deal succeed in banishing the black stuff?
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If we keep the promises made at Cop, many of these fading monuments of natural glacial beauty may yet survive
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The UK Cop presidency has made ending coal use its main mission. Will a new global deal succeed in banishing the black stuff?
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On day three of Cop, three lanky men walk into a conference centre promising the world with trillions of other people’s dollars. Not everyone believes them.
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On day two of Cop more than 100 countries joined forces to protect 85 per cent of the world’s forests. What’s not to like? We’ve tried this before and it didn’t work, but apart from that it’s a big step forward
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Day one of Cop 26 got off to better than expected. But are we seeing enough action from the mega-polluters: India, US, Russia and China?
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The Holy Father’s Thought for the Day this morning showed exactly why he is the moral leader the international community needs to achieve the goals of Cop 26
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If the future of this Earth depended on the cajolery of the UN’s climate conference, we’d all be screwed. But the trillions of dollars poised for investment in the environment should give us hope
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“Green lairds” are buying up Scotland to offset emissions and green their reputations. They can make a difference – but communities must have more say
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Findings from Tortoise’s Responsibility 100 Index show that the UK’s biggest supermarket chains are failing basic transparency tests when reporting on their environmental impact.
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The world’s most populous continent, with its fastest-growing economies, depends on coal. We’ve mapped the data over the last 50 years to try and get a sense of this critical challenge for Asia – and the world
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In advance of Cop 26, there remains a yawning gap between countries’ pledges and policy action. Britain is making a last-ditch effort to narrow it
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Ahead of Cop26, the world’s two biggest superpowers, China and the US, have tried talking to each other about emissions. Nothing has been achieved
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Aviation talks a big game about reaching net zero. But to actually achieve it, the industry and customers face some tough choices.
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Insects are crucial for the flourishing of life on Earth. We should be nurturing them. Instead we’re killing them off, wholesale
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Let the world’s farmlands breathe and come alive, and they might just steer the planet to net zero
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The government hasn’t done enough, either before or during the pandemic, to improve air quality. It can atone for that failure at next month’s climate conference
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The truth is: very little. But that says more about Cop than it does about Germany, which has a chance to lead global climate policy once its governing coalition is decided
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Join us at The New York Times Climate Hub as we discuss Cop26, and help build a practical to-do list to save the planet.
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Nobody understands what is happening in the Arctic better than its Indigenous people. Effective climate change adaptation means giving them more power over the resources on which they depend
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The global fight against climate change depends on us protecting the natural resources we still have left. We should be prepared to pay for that
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Humans have always been a relentlessly mobile species. But climate change is accelerating the number of people fleeing drought and disaster. How will developed nations respond?
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Due to vaccine inequality, trust is breaking down ahead of the crucial Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow. Genuine solidarity is needed to solve both transnational crises
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One of the central aims of Cop26 is to assemble a set of Nationally Determined Contributions towards global emissions reduction (NDCs). Are they ambitious enough?
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Too little water is bad for both the planet and people. Too much water is bad for them, too. We’ve created a crisis in which both extremes are happening at once
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John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy, wishes China wouldn’t link climate change to global politics – he says it isn’t a geostrategic issue. China says: oh yes it is
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Their brief existence and their perceived fragility is a sermon on the nature of beauty and life. How sad that 76 per cent of the UK’s resident and migratory butterfly species are in decline – with all that has to say about the future of the planet
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As appealing as tidiness is, grass is too important to the environment, to agriculture and to biodiversity to be tamed
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Is the widespread adoption of hydrogen a necessary step towards net zero?
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From September, businesses looking to secure deals that supply the most valuable goods and services to the government must have committed to Net Zero. It’s an imperfect, but valuable incentive for action
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Decarbonisation alone won’t solve the climate crisis. In the scramble to prevent average temperatures climbing more than 1.5°C within the next 20 years, we meed to slash methane emissions too.
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Step one towards Net Zero is funding alternatives to coal for countries that are hooked on it
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If we are to reach Net Zero in the decades ahead, then we have to do something about road transport. But electrifying it could just exacerbate many of the problems we face today
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The weather has never been more political. When will it actually change policy?
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Renewables are growing fast, but fossil fuels need to shrink much faster
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Could undercover footage of Exxon lobbyist Keith McCoy be the juice that climate litigation needs?
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COP26 is in trouble. With only four months to go, the broad goals are clear but no one is confident of progress towards achieving them and the big Biden dividend – US climate leadership after the Trump disaster – is nowhere to be seen
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The EU is finally putting serious money behind sustainable farming
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Brazil’s southern region has been crippled by a lack of rain in the last year, an event that’s been attributed to the inversion of La Niña. But why has it reversed? And why now?
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At last week’s ThinkIn, we assessed what we should be doing at Tortoise over the next 12 months if we want to advance the net zero agenda
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Will the Net Zero Teeside project, focused on carbon capture, usage and storage, amount to anything serious?
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The hunt for lithium and environmental justice on the shores of a dying lake
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Your weekly update on what we’re doing – and what more we can do – to build an agenda for COP26 that makes a difference
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Emissions pledges have become a trendy tool through which companies show off their “green” credentials. They’re just talk
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Breakfast ThinkIn: how do we build our way out of this crisis? Our daily digital ThinkIns are exclusively for Tortoise members and their guests.Try Tortoise free for four weeks to unlock your complimentary tickets to all our digital ThinkIns.If you’re already a member and looking for your ThinkIn access code you can find it in the My Tortoise > My Membership section of the app next to ‘ThinkIn access code’.We’d love you to join us.Infrastructure investment was a key part of the government’s ‘levelling-up’ agenda. But that was before C19 hit. If the way we live and work is set to change for good, are our pre-virus assumptions about what we need in terms of energy and transport still true? How should major infrastructure projects be funded now? How can they be greener, faster and create more jobs? And how are these decisions best made?Editor: Matt d’Ancona, Editor and Partner, Tortoise `This ThinkIn is in partnership with EDF.Our invited experts include: Jesse Norman MP, Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire from 2010, Financial Secretary to the Treasury from May 2019.Colin Matthews, Non-Executive Chairman of EDF in the UK, and former Chair of Highways England and Chair of the Highways Agency.Tristia Harrison, CEO TalkTalk.How does a digital ThinkIn work?A digital ThinkIn is like a video conference, hosted by a Tortoise editor, that takes place at the advertised time of the event. Digital ThinkIns are new to Tortoise. Now that our newsroom has closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, we feel it’s more important than ever that we ‘get together’ to talk about the world and what’s going on.The link to join the conversation will be emailed to you after you have registered for your ticket to attend. When you click the link, you enter the digital ThinkIn and can join a live conversation from wherever you are in the world. Doors open at 7:55am for a welcome and briefing. Come early to get settled, meet the team and chat to other members. ThinkIn starts at 8.00am.Members can enter their unique members’ access code to book tickets. Find yours in My Tortoise > My Membership in the Tortoise app.If you have any questions or get stuck, please read our FAQs, or get in touch with us at memberhelp@tortoisemedia.com What is a Tortoise ThinkIn?A ThinkIn is not another panel discussion. It is a forum for civilised disagreement. It is a place where everyone has a seat at the (virtual) table. It’s where we get to hear what you think, drawn from your experience, energy and expertise. It is the heart of what we do at Tortoise.How we work with partners We want to be open about the business model of our journalism, too. At Tortoise, we don’t take ads. We don’t want to chase eyeballs or sell data. We don’t want to add to the clutter of life with ever more invasive ads. We think that ads force newsrooms to produce more and more stories, more and more quickly. We want to do less, better.Our journalism is funded by our members and our partners. We are establishing Founding Partnerships with a small group of businesses willing to back a new form of journalism, enable the public debate, share their expertise and communicate their point of view. Those companies, of course, know that we are a journalistic enterprise. Our independence is non-negotiable. If we ever have to choose between the relationship and the story, we’ll always choose the story.We value the support that those partners give us to deliver original reporting, patient investigations and considered analysis.We believe in opening up journalism so we can examine issues and develop ideas for the 21st Century. We want to do this with our members and with our partners. We want to give everyone a seat at the table.
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It is not the only thing, but planting trees is an obvious first step in tackling the climate crisis
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The planet needs more trees, and one of their strengths as a climate change solution is that everyone can plant them, or help others to. Whichever your preference, here’s the Tortoise guide to trees
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The hollowed trunk of the mighty baobab tree is used to store life-giving water in the extreme drought of southern Madagascar
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Inspirational heroes who have written, campaigned, climbed – and died – in defence of trees
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Tom Crowther had no idea that his audit of the world’s trees would make him so many friends – and enemies
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Nothing would incentivise tree planting quite like a proper price for carbon
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Can the world’s wide open spaces deliver a solution to climate armageddon?
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We have to get to net zero soon. The question is how
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Can companies really change enough to save the planet?
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A year ago, a Californian town burned to the ground. Now, the area’s tech pioneers are coding to prevent further catastrophe
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Extreme power blackouts by California’s energy giants tell a story for our times
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More than four fifths of the world’s energy still comes from coal, oil and gas. The challenge is to phase them out as demand goes on rising
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The October Rebellion pitted climate protestors against police – and left both sides bedraggled
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Activism about the climate crisis is intensifying. What woke us up?
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Activists demanding action on the climate emergency will try to take over London again today
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Your route to work every day takes you past the Extinction Rebellion demonstrations, blocking the streets of London. You’re aware of the threat of climate change but not actively part of the environmental movement. What do you do? Do you keep walking?
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Climate activists occupied five key sites in London. Now, they are occupying a sixth: the City of London Magistrates’ Court
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Do the FTSE 100’s promises on sustainability stack up?
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Images taken from space show a planet wreathed in forest fires. They aren’t started by climate change, but they will speed it up with a vengeance
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If mankind survives another century or two, the history books of the future will record one man as the giant of our times
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A Tortoise ThinkIn on energy and climate change, Washington, DC. 13 June 2019
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Throwaway fashion harms the environment – it’s time to tax everything you wear
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Fracking has transformed the US energy industry. But in Britain, where financial benefits do not flow to landowners, it’s attracted fierce opposition from environmentalists. To frack or not to frack? That is the question. Or is it?
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Greg Barker has gone from being an MP and David Cameron’s climate change envoy to chairing one of the biggest aluminium and energy companies in Russia
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Wherever fracking is proposed, it is opposed. Is it time to ask more fundamental questions about our attitudes to energy?
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The explosion in solar power has had some surprising consequences
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Hydraulic fracturing is a proven way of getting inaccessible fossil fuel. Its high-pressure methods have attracted widespread protest ranging from fear of earthquakes to water pollution. Its supporters argue that it is a vital new source of cheap energy and would make the UK less dependent on imported oil and gas
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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?
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Flying will always come with a hefty carbon footprint. The best way to green the industry is to avoid it
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A series of domestic and international crises have deepened China’s addiction to coal. What will it take to wean it off?
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The UK is using its limited land badly. Government plans won’t make agriculture change fast enough
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We’ll need a wider variety of ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere if we’re going to keep the planet cool.
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The West doesn’t control the resources it needs to build a renewable energy future. China does
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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
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In a climate and energy crisis, the UK’s leaky, old housing stock is an extravagance neither people nor the planet can afford.
post
It’s getting cheaper to make the energy-storing gas using renewables – and that could help the world through the energy crisis.
post
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.
post
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
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Part two of the IPCC landmark report on climate change highlights both the risks and opportunities for cities.
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There is no net zero without Africa, and that’s a problem
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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At Cop26 last year, financial institutions made a $130 trillion promise to save the planet. How’s it going so far?
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The EU is trying to define what constitutes a “green” investment, but member states have conflicting ideas about what that really means.
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Snow is surrendering to rain even in the coldest places on the planet, but it can still spring surprises. An unseasonal blizzard in Greenland this year showed how climate change can deliver enough snow in a few days to change the mass of an entire ice sheet
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Imagine a world in which carbon cap and trade systems actually worked. Guess what? It’s happening.
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Humans aren’t finding climate solutions fast enough. Luckily, machines can help.
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Natural and unnatural disasters can cut carbon emissions, but so can the right policies.
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US Congress has a habit of killing off climate-focused legislation. Can Biden’s transformative bill make it through?
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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.
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The lesson of Cop is that it is open to a small number of key protagonists to save the planet. Will they?
post
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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The gap between electric vehicle uptake and the infrastructure to charge them is growing. The hassle that will cause could put drivers off
post
The amount of carbon put out needs to decrease, the amount taken in to increase. To do that you need to count carbon. Welcome to remote sensing.
post
The success of the summit depends on the powerful wielders of the negotiating pen heeding the warnings of the young, of activists and of indigenous peoples
post
The law is becoming an increasingly powerful tool in holding companies and countries to account on their emissions – but some cases fail to bring the latest science into the courtroom.
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There are good, natural reasons why flooding rivers and the sea with sewage is a terrible idea. It’s also deeply unpopular
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The UK Cop presidency has made ending coal use its main mission. Will a new global deal succeed in banishing the black stuff?
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If we keep the promises made at Cop, many of these fading monuments of natural glacial beauty may yet survive
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The UK Cop presidency has made ending coal use its main mission. Will a new global deal succeed in banishing the black stuff?
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On day three of Cop, three lanky men walk into a conference centre promising the world with trillions of other people’s dollars. Not everyone believes them.
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On day two of Cop more than 100 countries joined forces to protect 85 per cent of the world’s forests. What’s not to like? We’ve tried this before and it didn’t work, but apart from that it’s a big step forward
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Day one of Cop 26 got off to better than expected. But are we seeing enough action from the mega-polluters: India, US, Russia and China?
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The Holy Father’s Thought for the Day this morning showed exactly why he is the moral leader the international community needs to achieve the goals of Cop 26
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If the future of this Earth depended on the cajolery of the UN’s climate conference, we’d all be screwed. But the trillions of dollars poised for investment in the environment should give us hope
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“Green lairds” are buying up Scotland to offset emissions and green their reputations. They can make a difference – but communities must have more say
post
Findings from Tortoise’s Responsibility 100 Index show that the UK’s biggest supermarket chains are failing basic transparency tests when reporting on their environmental impact.
post
The world’s most populous continent, with its fastest-growing economies, depends on coal. We’ve mapped the data over the last 50 years to try and get a sense of this critical challenge for Asia – and the world
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In advance of Cop 26, there remains a yawning gap between countries’ pledges and policy action. Britain is making a last-ditch effort to narrow it
post
Ahead of Cop26, the world’s two biggest superpowers, China and the US, have tried talking to each other about emissions. Nothing has been achieved
post
Aviation talks a big game about reaching net zero. But to actually achieve it, the industry and customers face some tough choices.
post
Insects are crucial for the flourishing of life on Earth. We should be nurturing them. Instead we’re killing them off, wholesale
post
Let the world’s farmlands breathe and come alive, and they might just steer the planet to net zero
post
The government hasn’t done enough, either before or during the pandemic, to improve air quality. It can atone for that failure at next month’s climate conference
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The truth is: very little. But that says more about Cop than it does about Germany, which has a chance to lead global climate policy once its governing coalition is decided
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Join us at The New York Times Climate Hub as we discuss Cop26, and help build a practical to-do list to save the planet.
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Nobody understands what is happening in the Arctic better than its Indigenous people. Effective climate change adaptation means giving them more power over the resources on which they depend
post
The global fight against climate change depends on us protecting the natural resources we still have left. We should be prepared to pay for that
post
Humans have always been a relentlessly mobile species. But climate change is accelerating the number of people fleeing drought and disaster. How will developed nations respond?
post
Due to vaccine inequality, trust is breaking down ahead of the crucial Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow. Genuine solidarity is needed to solve both transnational crises
post
One of the central aims of Cop26 is to assemble a set of Nationally Determined Contributions towards global emissions reduction (NDCs). Are they ambitious enough?
post
Too little water is bad for both the planet and people. Too much water is bad for them, too. We’ve created a crisis in which both extremes are happening at once
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John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy, wishes China wouldn’t link climate change to global politics – he says it isn’t a geostrategic issue. China says: oh yes it is
post
Their brief existence and their perceived fragility is a sermon on the nature of beauty and life. How sad that 76 per cent of the UK’s resident and migratory butterfly species are in decline – with all that has to say about the future of the planet
post
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As appealing as tidiness is, grass is too important to the environment, to agriculture and to biodiversity to be tamed
post
Is the widespread adoption of hydrogen a necessary step towards net zero?
post
From September, businesses looking to secure deals that supply the most valuable goods and services to the government must have committed to Net Zero. It’s an imperfect, but valuable incentive for action
post
Decarbonisation alone won’t solve the climate crisis. In the scramble to prevent average temperatures climbing more than 1.5°C within the next 20 years, we meed to slash methane emissions too.
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Step one towards Net Zero is funding alternatives to coal for countries that are hooked on it
post
If we are to reach Net Zero in the decades ahead, then we have to do something about road transport. But electrifying it could just exacerbate many of the problems we face today
post
The weather has never been more political. When will it actually change policy?
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Renewables are growing fast, but fossil fuels need to shrink much faster
post
Could undercover footage of Exxon lobbyist Keith McCoy be the juice that climate litigation needs?
post
COP26 is in trouble. With only four months to go, the broad goals are clear but no one is confident of progress towards achieving them and the big Biden dividend – US climate leadership after the Trump disaster – is nowhere to be seen
post
The EU is finally putting serious money behind sustainable farming
post
Brazil’s southern region has been crippled by a lack of rain in the last year, an event that’s been attributed to the inversion of La Niña. But why has it reversed? And why now?
post
At last week’s ThinkIn, we assessed what we should be doing at Tortoise over the next 12 months if we want to advance the net zero agenda
post
Will the Net Zero Teeside project, focused on carbon capture, usage and storage, amount to anything serious?
post
The hunt for lithium and environmental justice on the shores of a dying lake
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Your weekly update on what we’re doing – and what more we can do – to build an agenda for COP26 that makes a difference
post
Emissions pledges have become a trendy tool through which companies show off their “green” credentials. They’re just talk
post
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It is not the only thing, but planting trees is an obvious first step in tackling the climate crisis
post
The planet needs more trees, and one of their strengths as a climate change solution is that everyone can plant them, or help others to. Whichever your preference, here’s the Tortoise guide to trees
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The hollowed trunk of the mighty baobab tree is used to store life-giving water in the extreme drought of southern Madagascar
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Inspirational heroes who have written, campaigned, climbed – and died – in defence of trees
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Tom Crowther had no idea that his audit of the world’s trees would make him so many friends – and enemies
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Nothing would incentivise tree planting quite like a proper price for carbon
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Can the world’s wide open spaces deliver a solution to climate armageddon?
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We have to get to net zero soon. The question is how
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Can companies really change enough to save the planet?
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A year ago, a Californian town burned to the ground. Now, the area’s tech pioneers are coding to prevent further catastrophe
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Extreme power blackouts by California’s energy giants tell a story for our times
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More than four fifths of the world’s energy still comes from coal, oil and gas. The challenge is to phase them out as demand goes on rising
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The October Rebellion pitted climate protestors against police – and left both sides bedraggled
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Activism about the climate crisis is intensifying. What woke us up?
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Activists demanding action on the climate emergency will try to take over London again today
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Your route to work every day takes you past the Extinction Rebellion demonstrations, blocking the streets of London. You’re aware of the threat of climate change but not actively part of the environmental movement. What do you do? Do you keep walking?
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Climate activists occupied five key sites in London. Now, they are occupying a sixth: the City of London Magistrates’ Court
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Do the FTSE 100’s promises on sustainability stack up?
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Images taken from space show a planet wreathed in forest fires. They aren’t started by climate change, but they will speed it up with a vengeance
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If mankind survives another century or two, the history books of the future will record one man as the giant of our times
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A Tortoise ThinkIn on energy and climate change, Washington, DC. 13 June 2019
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Throwaway fashion harms the environment – it’s time to tax everything you wear
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Fracking has transformed the US energy industry. But in Britain, where financial benefits do not flow to landowners, it’s attracted fierce opposition from environmentalists. To frack or not to frack? That is the question. Or is it?
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Greg Barker has gone from being an MP and David Cameron’s climate change envoy to chairing one of the biggest aluminium and energy companies in Russia
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Wherever fracking is proposed, it is opposed. Is it time to ask more fundamental questions about our attitudes to energy?
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The explosion in solar power has had some surprising consequences
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Hydraulic fracturing is a proven way of getting inaccessible fossil fuel. Its high-pressure methods have attracted widespread protest ranging from fear of earthquakes to water pollution. Its supporters argue that it is a vital new source of cheap energy and would make the UK less dependent on imported oil and gas
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Breakfast ThinkIn: how do we build our way out of this crisis? Our daily digital ThinkIns are exclusively for Tortoise members and their guests.Try Tortoise free for four weeks to unlock your complimentary tickets to all our digital ThinkIns.If you’re already a member and looking for your ThinkIn access code you can find it in the My Tortoise > My Membership section of the app next to ‘ThinkIn access code’.We’d love you to join us.Infrastructure investment was a key part of the government’s ‘levelling-up’ agenda. But that was before C19 hit. If the way we live and work is set to change for good, are our pre-virus assumptions about what we need in terms of energy and transport still true? How should major infrastructure projects be funded now? How can they be greener, faster and create more jobs? And how are these decisions best made?Editor: Matt d’Ancona, Editor and Partner, Tortoise `This ThinkIn is in partnership with EDF.Our invited experts include: Jesse Norman MP, Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire from 2010, Financial Secretary to the Treasury from May 2019.Colin Matthews, Non-Executive Chairman of EDF in the UK, and former Chair of Highways England and Chair of the Highways Agency.Tristia Harrison, CEO TalkTalk.How does a digital ThinkIn work?A digital ThinkIn is like a video conference, hosted by a Tortoise editor, that takes place at the advertised time of the event. Digital ThinkIns are new to Tortoise. Now that our newsroom has closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, we feel it’s more important than ever that we ‘get together’ to talk about the world and what’s going on.The link to join the conversation will be emailed to you after you have registered for your ticket to attend. When you click the link, you enter the digital ThinkIn and can join a live conversation from wherever you are in the world. Doors open at 7:55am for a welcome and briefing. Come early to get settled, meet the team and chat to other members. ThinkIn starts at 8.00am.Members can enter their unique members’ access code to book tickets. Find yours in My Tortoise > My Membership in the Tortoise app.If you have any questions or get stuck, please read our FAQs, or get in touch with us at memberhelp@tortoisemedia.com What is a Tortoise ThinkIn?A ThinkIn is not another panel discussion. It is a forum for civilised disagreement. It is a place where everyone has a seat at the (virtual) table. It’s where we get to hear what you think, drawn from your experience, energy and expertise. It is the heart of what we do at Tortoise.How we work with partners We want to be open about the business model of our journalism, too. At Tortoise, we don’t take ads. We don’t want to chase eyeballs or sell data. We don’t want to add to the clutter of life with ever more invasive ads. We think that ads force newsrooms to produce more and more stories, more and more quickly. We want to do less, better.Our journalism is funded by our members and our partners. We are establishing Founding Partnerships with a small group of businesses willing to back a new form of journalism, enable the public debate, share their expertise and communicate their point of view. Those companies, of course, know that we are a journalistic enterprise. Our independence is non-negotiable. If we ever have to choose between the relationship and the story, we’ll always choose the story.We value the support that those partners give us to deliver original reporting, patient investigations and considered analysis.We believe in opening up journalism so we can examine issues and develop ideas for the 21st Century. We want to do this with our members and with our partners. We want to give everyone a seat at the table.
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Is the energy transition only truly happening in the West? Politicians like to point fingers at those who “aren’t doing their bit”. But every country – from China to Kenya – is going through their own transformation…
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Can the energy transition help rather than hurt the most vulnerable households and communities? Some say the ‘spiralling costs’ of net zero will hit the poorest hardest. But if the right steps are taken, we can deliver cheaper energy bills, greener jobs and healthier communities – and make sure nobody is left behind.
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Can an entire country run on 100 per cent renewables? It will take enormous flexibility, interconnectivity, and storage to make this a reality. In this episode, Lucy and Giles discover how all three of these are currently being developed to an enormous degree…