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The nuclear option

Corporate Knights

One of the leaders on the other side of the debate is climate scientist James Hansen, who is famous for raising awareness of the climate threat at U.S. Is the nuclear industry using a smokescreen of net-zero to cover up its sustainability problems? congressional hearings in the 1980s.

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Take Five: IPCC Chair Issues Spoiler Alert

Chris Hall

In Interlaken, Switzerland, governments conducted the painstaking business of approving the key messages for policymakers of the latest Synthesis Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), aka the world’s foremost climate scientists. In Japan, progress is even slower, admittedly, but anticipation is high.