Tag: Carbon

Covid-19 Lockdown Will Have 'Negligible' Impact on Climate Crisis – Study Shows

Written by Guest Author, 27-08-2020

Drop in emissions was a blip, say scientists, and a green recovery is vital to halt global heating. The draconian coronavirus lockdowns across the world have led to sharp drops in carbon emissions, but this will have “negligible” impact on the climate crisis, with global heating cut by just 0.01C by 2030, a study has found. Read on

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Plantyflix: Offsetting the Carbon Footprint of Your Streaming Habit

Written by Tristan Rayner, 28-04-2020

Plantyflix is a subscription service that invests your monthly payment in planting trees - to offset all of the carbon emissions you generated last month by watching Netflix. Read on

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What Do You Know About Your Digital Carbon Footprint?

Written by Sarah-Indra Jungblut, 03-01-2020

When it comes to things that are bad for the climate, flying is pretty high up on the list. But actually, the energy consumed by our digital habits - all those emails, posts, search queries, streamed songs and shared videos - has long since overtaken the CO2 emissions of air travel. Read on

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Solar Foods: Creating Food From Air, Water and Electricity

Written by Mark Newton, 30-10-2019

A Finnish start-up, Solar Foods, is able to produce proteins from air, water and clean electricity. Is this the future of food production? Read on

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What's the Most Effective Weapon Against Climate Change? More Trees!

Written by Sarah-Indra Jungblut, 02-10-2019

A new study shows that reforesting an area the size of the USA could remove two thirds of global CO2 emissions from the Earth's atmosphere. Sounds like a simple solution, but will that ever really happen? Read on

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Project Wren: A Carbon Offset App For Millennials on the Move

Written by Mark Newton, 11-09-2019

A new online mobile platform looks to make it easier than ever for individuals to offset their personal carbon footprints. Read on

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Gene Discovery Could Help Plants Resist Climate Change - And Perhaps Help Reverse It

Written by Mark Newton, 17-07-2019

Researchers have unlocked the secrets of plant root growth, allowing them to potentially create climate change resistant and carbon-absorbing super plants. Read on

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Re-Freezing the Poles and Ocean Greening: New Lab Explores Radical Climate Change Solutions

Written by Mark Newton, 22-05-2019

Extreme problems sometimes require extreme solutions: A new UK research unit is looking at radical solutions to climate change. Read on

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CO2: Climate Killer or Valuable Resource?

Written by Laura Wagener, 15-04-2019

Negative-emissions technologies - that remove carbon dioxide from the air and in some cases, even turn it into something new - are powerful tools in the fight against climate change. In our latest Knowledge article we look at some of the most innovative approaches. Read on

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CO2: Climate Killer or Valuable Resource?

In a bid to slow down the rising temperature of the Earth and reduce the greenhouse effect, tech innovators around the world are looking for ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and, in some cases, even turn it into something new. Read on

Energy

Artificial Photosynthesis Breakthrough Shows Plants Are Best, but We're Catching Up

Written by Tristan Rayner, 16-11-2017

Plants, algae and bacterias have perfected the harvesting of light from the sun over millennia. Read on

Energy

Little Solar, Sunflower-esque Pieces of Solar Art

Written by Ajay Pal Singh Chabba, 20-06-2014

Little Sun brings light to homes in the form of a sunflower-shaped solar powered lamp. Dependence on kerosene-fuelled lanterns for light is an all-too-common occurrence in some developing countries. In fact, India even has the highest subsidy in place for distribution of kerosene tp its citizens living below poverty line. Read on

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REDD+ Simply Explained - a Case in Lao PDR

Forests continue to diminish globally at an alarming rate and have been dropping drastically especially in developing countries who are transforming their natural resources into national financial assets. What kind of forest management approach is a best fit in forest-rich developing countries? Is paying local communities to protect their forests the right approach? Read on

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State of Jammu and Kashmir in India Gives the Green Light to 7,500 MW Solar Projects

Written by Ajay Pal Singh Chabba, 11-03-2014

India is still going strong on its 22GW solar power generation target by the end of 2022. Last week, the state of Jammu and Kashmir in India signed a remarkable Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy to set up 7,500 MW of solar power projects in the state. Read on

Low Carbon the Future of Indian Industry

Recommended by Ajay Pal Singh Chabba, 08-07-2013

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Study demonstrates that organic farming accumulates carbon in the soil

Recommended by Anna Rees, 25-10-2012

Organic farming contributes to the sequestration of carbon in the soil and thus helps to mitigate climate change. This is the conclusion arrived at by a group of international climate experts. Under the leadership of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), the group evaluated for the first time data contained in 74 studies from around the world. To source

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Content tagged with Carbon

Covid-19 Lockdown Will Have 'Negligible' Impact on Climate Crisis – Study Shows

Plantyflix: Offsetting the Carbon Footprint of Your Streaming Habit

What Do You Know About Your Digital Carbon Footprint?

Solar Foods: Creating Food From Air, Water and Electricity

What's the Most Effective Weapon Against Climate Change? More Trees!

Project Wren: A Carbon Offset App For Millennials on the Move

Gene Discovery Could Help Plants Resist Climate Change - And Perhaps Help Reverse It

Re-Freezing the Poles and Ocean Greening: New Lab Explores Radical Climate Change Solutions

CO2: Climate Killer or Valuable Resource?

CO2: Climate Killer or Valuable Resource?

Artificial Photosynthesis Breakthrough Shows Plants Are Best, but We're Catching Up

Little Solar, Sunflower-esque Pieces of Solar Art

REDD+ Simply Explained - a Case in Lao PDR

State of Jammu and Kashmir in India Gives the Green Light to 7,500 MW Solar Projects

Low Carbon the Future of Indian Industry

Study demonstrates that organic farming accumulates carbon in the soil