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Chemistry World July 14, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
UK Government Unveils Energy Plans The UK government's long-awaited Energy Review contains great opportunities for chemists, but fails to pledge the research funding needed to meet the country's commitment to renewable energy. |
Chemistry World April 2007 Mark Peplow |
Editorial: Swindled? The bottom line is that just a few degrees increase in global average temperatures is likely to have a severe impact on human life. The silver lining of anthropogenic climate change is that, being man-made, at least we stand a chance of doing something about it. |
Chemistry World May 4, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Cutting the Cost of Climate Change Scientists have welcomed a UN climate change report released on Friday that sets out a range of affordable options for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. |
Chemistry World October 2007 Jeff Hardy |
Mind the Gap The technology to plug the UK's energy gap is already here. But where is the political will? |
Chemistry World January 10, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Green Light for UK Nuclear Power The UK government has formally announced its long-awaited decision to support a new generation of nuclear power stations. Scientists, while welcoming the government's decision, also warned that plenty of detailed decisions remained. |
Chemistry World May 23, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
UK Government Reveals Energy Plans Scientists have cautiously welcomed the UK government's drive towards renewable energy and nuclear power. |
Chemistry World July 23, 2014 James Hansen |
The energy to fight injustice We need to help developing countries obtain abundant, affordable carbon-free energy. The enormity of anti-nuclear policy decisions is difficult to exaggerate. |
Chemistry World July 27, 2011 Sean Milmo |
UK government sets aside 1000 places for top researchers The UK chemistry sector has given a mostly cool response to a government scheme to attract top chemists, chemical engineers and other scientists from outside the EU, while tightening restrictions on immigration. |
Chemistry World July 21, 2009 Rebecca Trager |
Nobel winners call for energy R&D funding Thirty-four Nobel Prize winners are urging US President Obama to make good on his pledge to provide increased, stable funding for energy research and development. |
Chemistry World January 24, 2008 Arthur Rogers |
EU Extends Emissions Trading Scheme to Petrochemicals Proposals for reform of the EU emissions trading system (ETS) will impact the chemicals sector by extending the system to nitrous oxide (N 2O) emissions. |
Chemistry World February 2011 |
What proportion of the world's energy supply will be sustainable by 2020? Three experts from different fields provide insights into scientific and political problems that impact energy stability. |
Chemistry World October 2007 Mark Peplow |
Chemistry's Big Question The way that we currently produce our energy -- for light, heat and transportation -- is clearly unsustainable. Chemistry really can save the world -- but scientists must be canny about selecting the most commercially realistic ways of achieving that. |
Chemistry World October 30, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Economist's Review Marks Turning Point Scientists have welcomed an economist's review into the costs of climate change, which warns of global recession if greenhouse gas emissions are not stabilized. |
Chemistry World February 2010 |
Solar surge The sun is the only non-polluting energy source available to humankind on a huge scale and there is an urgent need to drive forward the science to exploit this fact and put into place clever technological solutions for reducing CO 2 emissions. |
Chemistry World June 30, 2009 Sarah Houlton |
Climate change roadmaps announced UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has set out a 'Roadmap to Copenhagen' in advance of the climate change conference being held in the Danish capital in December. |
Chemistry World October 12, 2009 Sarah Houlton |
EC pushes renewables research The European Commission has called for a dramatic increase in investment in low carbon technologies to address climate change and secure the future energy supply. |
Chemistry World August 8, 2008 |
Funding Carbon Capture As the UK inches towards a 2014 large-scale demonstration of carbon capture and storage, scientists and MPs are urging for more incentives to get the costly technology commercial by 2020. |
Chemistry World May 24, 2011 Andrew Turley |
Chemical industry fears over UK emissions plans Government plans to cut UK greenhouse gas emissions risk crippling the chemical sector and thereby harming chances of moving to a low emissions future |
Chemistry World January 14, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Flawed Policies Encourage Damaging Biofuels, Says Royal Society Simplistic policies are encouraging biofuels that don't cut greenhouse gases. |
Chemistry World April 12, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Nuclear Power to Save the Planet The UK's chief scientific adviser, David King, has reiterated his support for nuclear power. King supports the rebuilding of decommissioned nuclear power plants in the UK to reduce dependence on fossil fuels in the next 15 years. |
Chemistry World March 6, 2012 Simon Perks |
Special Treatment for Scientists Under Immigration Rules Scientists traveling to work in the UK will be exempt from rules on settling in the country. |
Geotimes December 2006 Fred Schwab |
Why Fester? Let's Sequester! Instead of looking toward another fossil fuel-based energy choice, scientists need to examine carbon dioxide sequestering, the capture and storage technology that removes anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. |
Chemistry World February 2007 Helen Pilcher |
Living on Credits Carbon rationing isn't just a personal fancy. A growing band of UK politicians and scientists are touting it as the fairest and most practical way to cut emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. |
Chemistry World April 22, 2009 Matt Wilkinson |
Darling budgets for high tech growth Alistair Darling, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, gave a speech which focused heavily on how he wants to produce a 'hi tech Britain that will lead our economic recovery' |
Chemistry World December 2009 Chris Reynolds |
Regulatory Burden A new carbon emissions scheme will unwittingly hit the chemical industry. The UK risks being at a disadvantage if industry is overburdened with regulation. |
Chemistry World May 23, 2008 James Mitchell Crow |
Carbon Trust cuts are 'small beer' The government-funded body charged with reducing the carbon footprint of UK businesses 'can surely do a lot better', according to a government report. |
Chemistry World July 12, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Nano-Review to Assess Policy Progress A review that will check whether the UK government has followed up on promises to regulate nanotechnology might struggle to find much progress, scientists predict. |
Chemistry World September 25, 2012 Najafpour et al. |
Running on Sun We imagine a future where a substantial portion of our energy is met by solar fuels, leaving the task of food production to natural photosynthesis. This comes with the caveat that plants, algae and cyanobacteria be used to produce high value carbon compounds as well as biofuels |
Chemistry World December 5, 2008 Matt Wilkinson |
250m to train new breed of UK scientists The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has selected 44 new centers to share a 250 million injection into postgraduate science education. |
Chemistry World July 18, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Membranes Weed Out Carbon Dioxide Chemical membranes that can capture the carbon dioxide emitted by fossil fuels have been developed by scientists, who say that they are substantially more efficient than conventional membranes. |
Chemistry World April 23, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Invest in research or be left behind, UK academies warn The UK's four national academies have called on the government to increase investment in research over the next decade or risk being overtaken by international competitors. |
Chemistry World September 1, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Limestone is efficient energy distributor Limestone batteries could be the key to transporting energy across huge distances, according to chemists in Germany. |
Chemistry World November 2011 Jack Stilgoe |
The Science we Want, the Science we Need The UK government has lost the ability to ensure that the research that it really needs gets done. |
Chemistry World May 14, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Scientists to crowdsource power plant data US researchers at Arizona State University are enlisting the help of citizen scientists to map carbon dioxide emissions from power plants around the world. |
Chemistry World October 26, 2009 Rebecca Trager |
US energy use carries hidden costs of $120 billion The hidden health and environmental costs of energy production and consumption in the US could exceed $120 billion per year, according to a new report from the US National Research Council. |
Chemistry World July 21, 2009 Anna Lewcock |
Degrees of freedom The global nature of the climate change offers both opportunities and challenges. The US, for example, is keen to establish international cooperation and collaboration in climate change research |
Chemistry World August 2007 Richard Jones |
Comment: Grand Challenges for Small Science The UK needs to develop a convincing strategy for nanotechnology research. |
Chemistry World October 21, 2013 Philip Ball |
Chemistry's climate of scepticism It could be important for chemists to consider whether (and if so, why) there is an unusually high proportion of climate-change doubters in their ranks. |
Finance & Development December 2009 Bjorn Lomborg |
Technology, Not Talks, Will Save the Planet There are smarter alternatives to fighting climate change than cutting CO 2 emissions. |
The Motley Fool July 20, 2006 Anders Bylund |
Word of the Day: Sequestration GE and BP work together to stem global warming. These global giants certainly have the scale and resources to make it happen. |
Chemistry World October 2, 2015 Adam Brownsell |
Let's talk about chemistry I hope all of you have now had a chance to at least skim read the results of the survey carried out this year by the Royal Society of Chemistry on the public's attitudes to chemistry in the UK. |
Chemistry World April 4, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Dutch Power Ahead with Carbon Capture The first Dutch trial to capture carbon dioxide from a power plant's waste gas emissions has been launched in Rotterdam, Europe's largest port. |
Chemistry World February 22, 2010 Anna Lewcock |
Funding cuts will 'damage a generation' of science Cutting research budgets will harm science for an entire generation, the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science said. The Royal Society of Chemistry, one of the many who have voiced their outrage at the cuts to UK science funding, shares this view. |
Chemistry World February 10, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Science societies urge next UK government to invest more in research The next UK government should invest twice as much in research, according to a joint statement released by the National Academies. |
Chemistry World October 2008 Ananyo Bhattacharya |
Editorial: Physics envy UK government's former chief scientific adviser, surface chemist David King, questioned whether the hunt for the Higgs boson should be a priority for a planet facing potentially catastrophic climate change |
Chemistry World March 9, 2010 Anna Lewcock |
Fund science or risk economic downfall Leading researchers and former science ministers have today warned the UK government it risks 'throwing away' years of investment unless the UK keeps pace with science funding levels in other countries. |
Chemistry World March 2008 Mark Peplow |
Editorial: Sweating the Small Stuff In the field of nanotechnology, the devil is in the detail. |
The Motley Fool October 16, 2006 Jack Uldrich |
Shell Warms to a Global Challenge A recent company report documents the economic opportunity in combating global climate change. Investors, take note. |
Chemistry World October 6, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
New science minister in UK reshuffle UK scientists have welcomed the appointment of multi-millionaire businessman Paul Drayson (Lord Drayson) as the country's next science minister. |
Chemistry World July 8, 2008 Manisha Lalloo |
UK Slows Introduction of Biofuels The UK has scaled back its plans to introduce biofuels after a government-commissioned report warned that too little is known about their wider social and environmental impacts. |