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Policy & Planning

US energy-related CO2 emissions to experience biggest fall since 1949
US Energy Information Administration says energy-related CO2 emissions will decline by 11% in 2020 – its largest decline since 1949.
Joshua S Hill

May 14, 2020

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Policy & Planning

Global CO2 emissions surpass record 415ppm, just as Exxon predicted in 1982
Global carbon dioxide emissions have surpassed 415ppm – in line with Exxon Mobil’s catastrophic climate change forecasts which they then buried.
Michael Mazengarb

May 15, 2019

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Policy & Planning

Paris 1.5-2°C target far from safe, say world-leading scientists
Targeting a limit of 1.5-2°C of warning far from safe, and will spur feedbacks with potential to run out of humanity’s control.
David Spratt

Jul 27, 2017

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Policy & Planning

The Swiss company hoping to capture 1% of global CO2 emissions by 2025
On the roof of a waste incinerator outside Zurich, the Swiss firm Climeworks has built world’s first commercial plant to suck CO2 directly from the air.
Simon Evans

Jun 26, 2017

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Coal

Halving of coal demand pushes UK carbon emissions down 6%
UK CO2 emissions fell by 5.8% in 2016, a drop that, according to new analysis, comes from a record 52% drop in coal use.
Simon Evans

Mar 8, 2017

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Solar

Artificial leaf turns CO2 emissions into fuel
What if humans could invent a leaf-like solar cell that could turn carbon dioxide pollution from the atmosphere into fuel for electric power plants?
Bobby Magill

Aug 5, 2016

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