The potential for alternative foods to displace and disrupt conventional agricultural production has been discussed and debated for some time. While it may still be too early to make firm predictions, the trends are clear.
Biotechnology
Feb 1, 2024
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Climate change might not be high on its immediate agenda, but New Zealand's new government does have one potentially significant and innovative policy.
Earth Sciences
Dec 8, 2023
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The idea that we can mitigate current carbon emissions by "offsetting" them with carbon reduction initiatives elsewhere has become central to government and business responses to climate change. But it's an idea we need to ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2023
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The European Parliament adopted sweeping climate measures on Tuesday aimed at massively cutting EU greenhouse emissions, and including the introduction of a carbon border tax on imports.
Environment
Apr 18, 2023
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Past reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had an otherworldly feel. The onset of climate change, let alone the low-emissions transition, seemed abstract and far away.
Environment
Apr 7, 2022
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If the world acts now, we can avoid the worst outcomes of climate change without any significant effect on standards of living. That's a key message from the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Environment
Apr 6, 2022
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Corporate carbon polluters plant trees to counter their CO2 emissions, but activists warn against greenwashing and say such afforestation schemes detract from the emissions reductions needed to combat climate change.
Environment
Nov 11, 2021
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China Friday launched the world's biggest carbon trading system to help lower emissions, but critics and analysts have raised doubts about whether it will have a significant impact.
Environment
Jul 16, 2021
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With its emissions budgets, the Climate Change Commission's final advice to the government charts a course towards a low-emissions economy. But its comprehensive policy package is arguably the more decisive element—targets ...
Environment
Jun 17, 2021
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Gas power plants overtook lignite coal plants in 2020 to become the European Union's largest single source of emissions from electricity, an analysis of the bloc's Emissions Trading Scheme showed Friday.
Environment
Apr 16, 2021
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