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Japan's climate change efforts hindered by biased business lobby: study
Japan's powerful business lobby Keidanren pushes national policies that favor coal and hinders attempts to combat climate change.
Microsoft aims to erase its carbon footprint from atmosphere
Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it aims to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits by 2030 and that by 2050, it hopes to have taken out enough to account for all the direct emissions the company has ever made.
With 'thank you' emails, polite Britons burn thousands of tonnes of carbon a year
Britain could significantly cut its carbon footprint if people stopped sending unnecessary 'thank you' emails, researchers said on Tuesday, calling on the public to 'think before you thank'.
Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change
In decades to come, African farmers may pool their money to buy small robot vehicles to weed their fields or drones that can hover to squirt a few drops of pesticide only where needed.
Scientists to publish report on feasibility of climate targets on Oct. 8
The world's leading climate scientists this week are preparing the final version of a cornerstone United Nations report to assess whether global temperatures can be kept in check this century to prevent the most damaging effects of global warming.
Inside Tesla's troubled New York solar factory
Tesla Inc's production of solar roof tiles has been delayed by assembly-line problems at its new publicly subsidized factory and difficulties producing a product that satisfies CEO Elon Musk.
Solar power eclipsed fossil fuels in new 2017 generating capacity: U.N.
Chinese solar power led a record 157 gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity added worldwide last year, more than double the amount of new generation capacity from fossil fuels, a U.N.-backed report showed on Thursday.