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  Without policy changes, global carbon emissions will resume their inexorable rise when the post COVID-19 recovery gets going, quite possibly as soon as the late summer of 2021 if all goes well. Even with the "bonus" of the temporary decline due to COVID-19, the recovery would see 2030 emissions around 20% above the 2018 level, while a 25% reduction is needed to get on the trajectory required to keep the eventual rise in global average temperature below 2°C. For the more ambitious ceiling of a 1.5°C warming, an even sharper cut is indicated. The scale of adjustment required is enormous...

  Farmers, as landowners, consumers and citizens will be affected more than others by the transformation already under way in Ireland’s electricity system. The Government is committed to ambitious targets for renewable electricity and to policies which will see a sharp increase in overall electricity demand. The penetration of renewables into the supply chain has already risen to high levels in Ireland and will rise much further if the targets are met. This means more wind and solar farms and new transmission lines. Wind turbines and electricity pylons are unpopular and are opposed loca...

Host Lauren Korn and poet-essayist Paisley Rekdal, author of Appropriate: A Provocation, dive into the nuances of cultural appropriation in literature. What is the difference between depicting a character unlike one’s self and appropriating their culture and identity? What is the difference between one’s politics and one’s ethics? They explore these topics and more, this week on The Write Question. New York Times Magazine and American Poetry Review, as well as on NPR. She teaches at the University of Utah and is the state’s poet laureate. She lives in Salt Lake City. Paisley recomm...

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