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Global yields of wheat are around 10% lower now than they would have been without the influence of climate change, according ...
British International Investment (BII), a UK government-owned and aid-funded company, has a portfolio of overseas fossil-fuel assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Carbon Brief can reveal. In ...
Even passing 1.5C of global warming temporarily would trigger a “significant” risk of Amazon forest “dieback”, says a new study. Dieback would see large numbers of trees die, shifting the lush ...
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The UK government’s “high-risk” research funding agency last week announced that it will invest £57m ($76m) in a new solar geoengineering research programme. “Solar geoengineering” refers to methods ...
Shanxi province in northern China is the country’s largest coal producer, leaving its coal-reliant economy and workers particularly exposed to the nation’s pledge to transition away from fossil fuels.
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This guest post is by: Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air and senior fellow at Asia Society Policy Institute. For the first time, the growth in China’s ...
Rapidly rising emissions from China’s agricultural machinery could “hinder” the country’s push to net-zero, according to new research. The study, published in Nature Food, finds that carbon dioxide ...