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2050 is the target set for the world to reach net zero emissions. So what would life look like if we make it? And what if we get it wrong?

Research says oil giant TotalEnergies linked fossil fuels and global warming in 1971.

Research says oil giant TotalEnergies linked fossil fuels and global warming in 1971.

London – Another big push towards electric vehicles is being made in the United Kingdom governments latest strategy to make the great shift to a virtually zero-carbon economy. Ministers are investing £620m in grants for electric vehicles and street charging points. Car makers will be mandated to sell a proportion of clean vehicles each year. An extra £350m is promised to help the automotive supply chain move to electric. The new …

Scientists behind the UN’s watershed report on climate change have questioned plans for a huge and contentious oil field off Shetland.

ambitiously slash carbon emissions in the coming decades. Sea levels, of course, won’t instantly rise by tens of feet: Miles-thick ice sheets take many centuries to thousands of years to melt. But, critically, humanity is already setting the stage for a relatively quick return to Pliocene climes, or climes at least significantly warmer than now. It’s happening fast. When CO2 naturally increases in the atmosphere, pockets of ancient air preserved in ice show this CO2 rise happens gra...