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Research story | 2024-11-18

Ten crucial climate insights for guiding policymakers at COP29

As COP29 enters its final week in Baku, Azerbaijan, it's high time to remind of the '10 New Insights in Climate Science,' released a few weeks ago.

Research story | 2024-11-13

COP29: Possible to limit climate change to 1.5°C – if EU and 17 other countries go beyond their own ...

Limiting global warming to 1.5 °C is still possible, but some countries require support to meet their climate responsibilities. A new study introduces an “additional carbon accountability” indicator, revealing that the EU and 17 other countries must exceed their own current targets to achieve this global goal.

Research story | 2024-03-14

Dumping seaweed in the deep ocean is a bad idea. Here’s why

Investments are pouring into projects that aim to grow seaweeds to then dump them in the depths of the ocean, all to sequester and remove carbon from the atmosphere. But such ideas are not backed by sound science and risk deteriorating ecosystems

Research news | 2023-10-05

Carbon offsets should embrace uncertainty

Exact predictions of how much carbon can be stored in offset projects are a scientific impossibility. That's why the carbon offset market should build resilience instead and learn from other sectors, argues a new policy research paper in Science

Research news | 2023-02-15

New report: Swedish parliament should decide on a fair carbon budget

Sweden is not on track to reaching its own national climate targets – and it is not even clear if the targets are sufficient, according to scientists of the research programme Fairtrans

Research news | 2019-02-13

No market without the state

Despite a variety of designs, the state plays a key role in all forms of policies around biodiversity offsetting