Report outlines how Europe can secure its industrial future by creating markets for clean materials
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The EU can trigger billions in clean investment, build competitiveness and secure its industrial future via policies to create lead markets for clean materials, according to a new report from policy and thinktank groups the Industrial Transition Accelerator (ITA) and E3G. The report, Building the EU’s Clean Industrial Future: Unlocking Investment Through Lead Markets, makes […]
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State AG Attacks on Climate Alliances Still Lack Coherent Antitrust Theories
A now-familiar playbook for climate-denying state attorneys general is to launch burdensome investigations of climate-minded corporate enterprises based on inchoate antitrust claims (often conspicuously lacking a profit motive for the alleged antitrust violations). These enforcement tactics crystallize two challenges for corporate climate initiatives seeking to steer clear of antitrust liability. First: in order to prevent […]
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The Complete Guide to Pydantic for Python Developers
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Python’s flexibility with data types is convenient when coding, but it can lead to runtime errors when your code receives unexpected data formats.
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10 Python One-Liners for Generating Time Series Features
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Time series data normally requires an in-depth understanding in order to build effective and insightful forecasting models.
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Don’t Let Trump’s Fake ‘Energy Emergency’ Harm Coloradans
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Hybrid biocarbon solution receives Make UK regional award
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This article contains sponsored content. Hybrid biocarbon solution ecoke, developed by CPL Products under Invica Industries, has won the Energy & Sustainability Award at the 2025 Make UK Manufacturing Regional Awards, recognising the impact of the approach in industrial decarbonisation. The award honours UK manufacturers achieving measurable gains in energy efficiency, carbon reduction, and environmental […]
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Global construction carbon footprint predicted to double by 2050
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As the world prepares to mark UN World Cities Day on 31 October – a call to make cities more sustainable – a new international study warns that the global construction sector’s carbon footprint is on track to double by 2050, threatening to derail efforts to meet the Paris Agreement climate targets. In 2022, over […]
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The FTC Asserts (and Oversteps) its Antitrust Authority Against a Key Climate Alliance
Climate alliances have become a common target of antitrust campaigns over the last several years, particularly given the complex market dynamics for these alliances to navigate, with effective industry-wide transformation often necessitating some degree of coordination among competitors. In previous blog posts, we have addressed state legislatures’ efforts to undermine reasonable climate-mitigation investment initiatives—often by […]
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From EU Framework to National Action: How Germany Regulates Data Center Energy Use
Introduction In recent years, the number of data centers in the United States and worldwide has grown rapidly, driven by the expansion of cloud computing, digital services, and artificial intelligence applications. These facilities consume substantial amounts of electricity. Projections indicate that data centers could account for about 4 – 5 % of total U.S. electricity […]
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DeBriefed 24 October 2025: EU 2040 climate goal progress; Shipping industry carbon price delayed; Europe’s indigenous people take Finland to court
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week EU leaders agreed climate goal ‘truce’ ‘BREAKTHROUGH’: EU leaders have reached a “breakthrough” on climate issues that “increases the likelihood” that the bloc will be able to sign off on its 2040 climate goal before COP30 in […]
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UN report: Five charts showing how global deforestation is declining
The amount of forest lost around the world has reduced by millions of hectares each year in recent decades, but countries are still off track to meet “important” deforestation targets. These are the findings of the Global Forest Resources Assessment – a major new report from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization – which says […]
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Rapid emissions cuts would avoid 64cm of ‘locked in’ sea level rise by 2300
Cutting emissions in line with the 1.5C warming limit, rather than following current climate policies, could curb long-term sea level rise by 64cm, a new study says. The research, published in Nature Climate Change, projects how much sea level rise will be unavoidable – or “locked in” – by the year 2300, due to emissions […]
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The Machine Learning Practitioner’s Guide to Fine-Tuning Language Models
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Fine-tuning has become much more accessible in 2024–2025, with parameter-efficient methods letting even 70B+ parameter models run on consumer GPUs.
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The brain power behind sustainable AI
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How can you use science to build a better gingerbread house? That was something Miranda Schwacke spent a lot of time thinking about. The MIT graduate student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) is part of Kitchen Matters, a group of grad students who use food and kitchen tools to explain scientific concepts through short […]
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Scope 3 Emissions in Corporate Reporting: Calculating Climate Risk in Global Value Chains
Corporate climate disclosure rules are under development in several jurisdictions, with California and the European Union (EU) leading the way. A controversial and unresolved matter in this area is the inclusion and measurement of Scope 3 emissions—i.e., indirect emissions from a company’s supply chain. This blog post—the second in a set of two exploring […]
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The Carbon Brief Interview: UK Met Office chief executive Penny Endersby
Prof Penny Endersby has been chief executive of the UK Met Office since December 2018. She took the reins at the UK’s climate and weather service after more than two decades working in the science and technology department of the Ministry of Defence. Endersby has led the Met Office during a critical period which has […]
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Five with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2025
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On Oct. 20 during its annual meeting, the National Academy of Medicine announced the election of 100 new members, including MIT faculty members Dina Katabi and Facundo Batista, along with three additional MIT alumni. Election to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and […]
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Revealed: Only a third of national climate pledges support ‘transition away from fossil fuels’
Only around a third of the latest country climate pledges submitted to the UN express support for the “transition away from fossil fuels”, according to Carbon Brief analysis. Several countries even have used their 2035 climate plans to commit to increasing the production or use of fossil fuels, predominately gas, the analysis finds. The first […]