carbon

Making steel without damaging the climate
Thoughts

Making steel without damaging the climate

The wonder material is single-handedly responsible for almost 10% of global warming — but solutions for cleaning up steel are expensive and hard to scale

Picture: Mohammad Minhaz Uddin/TBS
Environment

Chattogram heading for carbon catastrophe: Report

Illustration: TBS
Thoughts

The market is finally putting a realistic price on carbon

A surveillance camera is seen near a coal-fired power plant in Shanghai, China, October 14, 2021. Photo :Reuters
China

China's Xi says country's low carbon push must guarantee energy, food security

Smoke billows from a chimney at a coking factory in Hefei, Anhui province October 2, 2010. Photo :Reuters
World+Biz

UN climate summit reaches carbon markets deal

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China

China to release implementation plans to achieve carbon goals: Xi

One of the main reasons the US has been unable to impose a national carbon tax or permit trading system is skittishness over the potential political attacks it would bring. Photo: Bloomberg. 
Panorama

The US makes carbon pricing more complicated than it needs to be

For decades, pointy-headed elites have called on the nations of the world to address the problem of greenhouse gas emissions by putting a meaningful price on carbon. Photo: Reuters
Panorama

What are you willing to sacrifice to stop climate change?

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan is greeted by Italy's Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani at the start of the G20 Environment, Climate and Energy Ministers' Meeting in Naples, Italy, July 22, 2021. G20Italy/Handout via REUTERS
World+Biz

G20 loath to commit in climate meeting tussle over carbon wording

Shafiqul Alam
Thoughts

Busting the decarbonisation myths

Brazil's Environment Minister Ricardo Salles attends a graduation ceremony for The Order of Rio Branco at the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil October 22, 2020. REUTERS/Adriano Macha
World+Biz

Brazil needs $10 bln a year in aid for carbon neutrality by 2050, minister says

Smoke and steam billows from Belchatow Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired power plant operated by PGE Group, at night near Belchatow, Poland December 5, 2018/ Reuters
Environment

CO2 pollution bounces back, climate goals at risk: IEA

Representational image. Photo: REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
Climate Change

Private sector body unveils multi-billion ambitions for carbon offsets