The science behind forest carbon credits is sound, finds new study
Forest-based carbon credits have had a rough couple of years. Numerous academic studies and media investigations have unearthed vastly inflated…
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Oliver Gordon
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Correspondent Oliver Gordon is a sustainability-focused multimedia journalist based in London. He has previously worked for Struggles From Below, Uxolo Development Finance, Proximo Infra, TXF News, City AM and Euromoney. Contact Ollie at: oliver.gordon [at] globaldata.com
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Carbon removal: 27 years to create the world’s largest industry
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report, carbon removal, or carbon dioxide (CO₂) removal (CDR), will…
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The water crisis threatens the energy transition – CDP
Companies involved in the global energy transition are highly exposed to water security risks and are already seeing some of…
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Petrostates to lose $8trn of fossil-fuel income by 2040
COP28 host the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is among 28 petrostates that risk losing over half their revenues from fossil…
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“Extraordinary” clean energy growth keeping 1.5°C door ajar – IEA’s Laura Cozzi
During October, the International Energy Agency (IEA), a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organisation, released two key reports analysing global progress in…
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Are forest-based carbon offsets worth saving?
More than half of the world’s largest public companies have committed to an emissions reduction target and many plan to…
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Fossil-fuel subsidies rise to record $7trn – IMF
Fossil-fuel subsidies rose to a record $7trn last year as governments bolstered consumers and businesses during the energy crisis, according…
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AI cuts climate-warming contrails of planes by 54% – Google study
Google Research, American Airlines and Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy have used artificial intelligence (AI) to develop contrail forecast maps that…
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Governments should stop ‘propping up’ oil and gas – report
Declining fossil fuel volumes coming from the North Sea, alongside the economic downturns resulting from Covid-19 and the Ukraine War,…
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Survey reveals lack of energy sector upskilling harming UK’s net-zero transition
UK energy sector workers believe there is a worrying lack of leadership and support to meet the government's target to…