Explainer – Net zero: just patching over emissions or path for saving planet?
London, UKReuters More than 190 countries committed in 2015 to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in an effort to stave off the worst effects of climate change such as drought, flooding and loss of species. Scientists say bringing global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to ‘net zero’ by 2050 is the […]
Wow!: Pollution to products? Recycled carbon emissions are coming to consumer shelves
CAREY L BIRON, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a new process uses captured carbon to create “green chemicals” which is already being used to make everything from detergent to clothing…
Climate change: Scared by global warming? In Iceland, one solution is petrifying
ALISTER DOYLE, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on an unusual – and controversial – solution being employed in Iceland to tackle global warming…