Methods: For this analysis, national fair shares of a safe global carbon budget consistent with the planetary boundary of 350 ppm were derived. These fair shares were then subtracted from countries' actual historical emissions (territorial emissions from 1850 to 1969, and consumption-based emissions ...
Carbon colonialism explores the murky practices of outsourcing a country's environmental impact, where emissions and waste are exported from rich countries to poorer ones; a world in which corporations and countries are allowed to maintain a clean, green image while landfills in the world's poores...
Modelling socio-environmental sensitivities: how public responses to low carbon energy technologies could shape the UK energy system. Low carbon energy technologies are not deployed in a social vacuum; there are a variety of complex ways in which people understand and engage with these te... Brigh...
The disappearance of animals from otherwise intact habitats is known asdefaunation, and it is leading to a growing number ofempty forestsnot just in tropical countries, but around the world. The UK has already lost most of its largest species (think lynx, wolf, and wisent), while woodland bi...
Conserving forests is essential for the fight against climate breakdown—and, we do have a global tool at our disposal to help. Known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, or REDD+ for short, it allows wealthy countries with large carbon footprints to pay poorer,tropical...
Voltage, current transients, together with optical emissions were monitored as the plasma volumes evolved from tens-of-micrometers in cross-section to the mm scale. Comparisons of the energy efficiency of micro-bridges triggered electrically and by optical initiation of plasma can be made and are ...
In lateral GaN transistors, the buffer is typically isolating and compensated with carbon; in vertical GaN devices, most of the stack is constituted by a drift region that is not intentionally doped and which needs to be highly conductive. To investigate the leakage and breakdown, technology ...
Cigarette butts (CBs) are non-biodegradable harmful residues of synthetic origin and are widespread in marine environments around the world. Although environmental factors are often primarily responsible for the fragmentation of microplastics in the marine environment, biotic factors have recently been shown...
Of particular current interest are those elements such as Li, Co, Ni, Cu, and the rare earth elements (REEs) that are necessary for the deployment of new green technologies that are necessary for the transition to a sustainable decarbonized future [2]. This situation has created an ...
In developed regions, urban areas stand as significant contributors to climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, consuming approximately 60% to 80% of global energy consumption, accounting for an equal share of global carbon dioxide emissions [7]. Meanwhile, buildings play a pivotal role ...