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Our Global Community: Protecting the Great Bear Rainforest

The Guardian and The Observer, who purchase paper from Canada, celebrate the landmark Great Bear Rainforest Agreements The Guardian and The Observer print on paper purchased predominately from UK recycled mills. However, to ensure a good mix of sources we also use certified virgin paper from Europe and Canada. We take our commitment to sustainable

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How much does aviation contribute to climate change? How will this change in the future?

This article is the first in a two-parter on global aviation. This was sparked by various questions from readers on the role of aviation in climate change, and – as a follow-up from my article on biofuels for road transport in the US – what role biofuels could play in this. Aviation will be one

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Net-zero: it’s not just where you end up, but how you get there that matters

Many countries have set targets to reach ‘net-zero’ emissions. The UK – alongside others – has pledged to achieve this by 2050. That’s almost three decades away, which means it needs a long-term plan to get there. The problem is that long-term plans don’t sync with four-year election cycles (or if you’re in the UK,

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Electrification is efficiency: The world will need less energy after the transition

When we electrify our energy systems, a magical thing happens: large inefficiencies vanish. As the International Energy Agency puts it: “Electrification is efficiency”. In a decarbonised world, our final energy demand is much lower than it is today. A study by the Oxford Professor Nick Eyre suggests it’s about 40% lower.1 This is shown in

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