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Key Messages: Fossil fuel use is by far the biggest driver of climate change. We need to radically reduce it now and phase it out almost...

Sulfur in the form of sulfuric acid is a crucial part of our modern industrial society. It is required for the production of phosphorus fertiliser and manufacturing lightweight electric motors and high-performance...

Fresh data released at the climate summit show global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are soaring despite energy crisis.

To keep global warming well-below 2°C, fossil fuels need to dramatically decline and be replaced by low-carbon energy sources. While the technologies to replace fossil fuels...

Behind the struggle to stop governments propping up the coal, oil and gas industries.

Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement pledged to limit global warming to well below 2 °C and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C relative to pre-industrial times...

COVID-19 is the greatest global shock in decades. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost, and the world’s economy likely faces the worst recession since the 1930s. The resulting loss...

Increasing synergies among synthetic biology, nanotechnology, 3D&4D printing, robotics, and the advent of AI, quantum computing, collective intelligence and yet to emerge technologies will make...

Co-extinction - simulated scenarios assessing co-extinction potential causes and impacts based on synergies among extinction drivers. E3ME - Energy, Environment, Economy Model...

UN - The United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals. 17 Goals to transform our world. IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, (2018)...