Removals

Capturing and storing problems

In the last entry in our series of long reads explaining CCS, Bertie Harrison-Broninski investigates the reasons carbon capture projects have such a ropey track record.

Latest Analysis

Materials

Rock stars: the academics answering the construction sector’s hardest question

Our assistant editor talks to the PhD students on a mission to crack low carbon cement.

Removals

Why Carbon Capture and Storage matters: overshoot, models, and money

In the second article in our CCS series, Bertie Harrison-Broninski explains why CCS has a different status to other saviour tech: its place in climate modelling.

Development

Is Rio a blueprint for urban climate action in the Global South?

Lauren Sneade takes a look inside Rio's City Hall at the team tackling the climate crisis in a city where development is as crucial as climate action.

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Opinion

Opinion

Food aid is not helping Africa’s struggle with climate change: what would?

Increased droughts, floods, and storms due to climate change are eroding African food security. New research shows that agricultural and cereal aid are not helping.

By Go Shimada
30 March, 2022

Opinion

Build Beyond Zero

Could we go beyond removing CO2 from the atmosphere and actually use it in the building blocks of the future?

By Bruce King
28 February, 2022

Latest podcast & tweets

Latest Podcast

How to tackle methane in a meat-eating world?

Did you know that methane is more than 25 times more potent than CO2 in terms of trapping heat in the atmosphere? In this episode we look at reducing methane emissions without mandating veganism. Our guests Anatoli Smirnov and Sabina Assan are researchers at Ember, international data analysts for clean energy solutions in the power sector.

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@soniashah & @Alimacewen talk about #climate migration, 'invasive' animal species, and elitist #science.

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"Burning forest biomass is projected to rise in all scenarios under the European Commission’s Climate Target Plan: 9–19% by ... 2030 & 66–80% by 2050."

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Bioenergy explained

As the world begins to phase out coal power, some countries see biomass as its successor fuel – but is burning trees and plant matter really a renewable energy source?

With funding from the European Climate Foundation, ELCI hosts this hub to provide a definitive perspective on bioenergy – the science, the policy, and the big picture for the planet.

Introduction to Bioenergy

What is Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage? The BECCS for power basics.

Introduction to Bioenergy

The Problem of Bioenergy in the EU

Bioenergy Campaign Highlight

New Campaign to #StopFakeRenewables launches

Bioenergy Campaign Update

UK: Joint NGO Statement on Biomass for Net Zero

Introduction to Bioenergy

Will bioenergy with carbon capture (BECCS) work?

Bioenergy Campaign Update

UK: Joint NGO Statement on BECCS

Bioenergy Campaign Highlight

Over 500 scientists to world leaders: do not burn trees for energy

Bioenergy Policy

What did the 2015 ‘Bioimpact Project’ say about burning wood in the EU?

Diplomacy

What are the issues threatening oceans in the Pacific? With Dame Meg Taylor DBE

Removals

CCS: what are the right (and wrong) ways to do carbon capture and storage?

Bioeconomy

Roxane Andersen explains why peatlands are the “superheroes” of carbon storage

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