12 March 2018, Carbon Brief, New maps pinpoint the potential for BECCS across the US. Models developed to explore how the world might limit future warming to the “well below 2C” target of the Paris Agreement on climate change typically employ large amounts of … Continue reading →
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2 March 2018, The Guardian, Bosses at world’s most ambitious clean coal plant kept problems secret for years. Disclosure regarding the $7.5bn Kemper plant in Mississippi throws further cloud over promise of clean coal energy. Executives at the world’s most ambitious “clean … Continue reading →
28 February 2018, Nature Climate Change Letters, Biomass-based negative emissions difficult to reconcile with planetary boundaries. Under the Paris Agreement, 195 nations have committed to holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to strive to limit the … Continue reading →
28 February 2018, Carbon Brief, OECD: Fossil fuel subsidies added up to at least $373bn in 2015. Fossil fuel subsidies totalled at least $373bn globally in 2015, according to a new report which for the first time combines figures from two key … Continue reading →