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Report: UK requires 'substantial and sustainable' behaviour change to hit net zero

Business Green

The public-private Energy Research Partnership warns all new decarbonisation incentives must include 'behaviour change enabling plans' for corporates and the public. Peer pressure is also a major factor in delivering behaviour change, the report notes, arguing that "visible positive behaviours" can trigger people to make low-carbon choices.

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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Green Market Oracle

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible.

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Tipping Points In Tropical Forests: Carbon Fluxes In The Amazon And Africa

Energy Innovation

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. One such critical tipping point is the potential transformation of the world’s largest tropical forests from carbon sinks into net sources of carbon emissions.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Clean energy for Native American communities. I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30. GreenBiz Editors.

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Mitigating social impact in a low-carbon Singapore

Eco-Business

While companies such as Amazon, Nestlé, and Unilever have set targets for carbon neutrality, Microsoft just announced that it will become carbon negative by around 2030, and remove all the carbon the company has emitted since its founding in 1975.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

AGreenLiving

Clean energy for Native American communities. “I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun,” he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. Planet-healing fast food.

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Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020. Scientists Fear Feedback Loops

DeSmogBlog

And despite a dip in polluting activities due to the pandemic, concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose to its highest level in 3.6 Human activity is driving climate change,” Colm Sweeney, assistant deputy director of the Global Monitoring Lab, a division within NOAA, said in a statement. million years. ppb rise in 2019.

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