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Joule Solar Fuel Joule Solar Fuel

While producing biofuels from feedstock has drawn heavy criticism, much money and... 

Comprehensive water management Comprehensive water management

Water and the lack thereof have been cited by water experts to be at least as big... 

GreatPoint Energy Hydromethanation GreatPoint Energy Hydromethanation

Burning natural gas made from coal in a modern power plant generates about 60 percent... 

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General news

Launch of ‘Ubuntu: South Africa’s search for a sustainable future’ Launch of ‘Ubuntu: South Africa’s search for a sustainable future’

CPSL South Africa, in association with the Forum for the Future’s Green Futures... 

The Risks from Sea Level Rise - assessments from Australia & Cape Town The Risks from Sea Level Rise - assessments from Australia & Cape Town

Reuters reported today on an Australian parliamentary committee’s finding... 

Forum online booking launched Forum online booking launched

We are very excited to announce that the online booking system for the Cambridge... 

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CPSL Thought Leadership

Jeremy Baskin - SA has compelling reasons to cut hothouse emissions Jeremy Baskin - SA has compelling reasons to cut hothouse emissions

SA has no detailed climate change policy, as the government acknowledges. It is too late to develop one before next month’s Copenhagen conference. This is disappointing, given that SA is a Group of 20 economy and the world’s 13th-biggest CO² emitter, but not fatal as long as detailed, informed policy measures are in the pipeline. Most troubling... [Read more]

Paul Gilding - The Climate Giant Awakes. Have we turned a corner? Paul Gilding - The Climate Giant Awakes. Have we turned a corner?

Regular readers may be a little surprised by this column. I am regularly arguing that the science shows we are inevitably approaching, or may have past, a tipping point where widespread, rolling ecological and economic crises take hold. But there’s another critical tipping point, of a very different character – where the world’s political and... [Read more]

TRUTH or COMFORT? TRUTH or COMFORT?

On Reading James Lovelock’s “The Vanishing Face of Gaia - A Final Warning” By: Peter Willis If I look back on the many moments of challenge and disturbance in my life it’s clear that a critical question at such moments has always been “How much truth am I willing to expose myself to?” I think it’s fair to say that the only... [Read more]

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