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Green light

A series exploring the critical role global corporations must play in curbing the climate crisis

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9 October 2021

  • ‘Everything fossil fuel companies want to do, they need lawyers to accomplish,’ said Tim Herschel-Burns, co-founder of Law Students for Climate Accountability.

    Fossil fuel companies paying top law firms millions to ‘dodge responsibility’

    Over the last five years, the 100 top law firms in the US represented fossil fuel clients in 358 legal cases and transactions worth $1.36tn

5 October 2021

  • Source hydropanels in Dubai

    Out of thin air: can hydropanels bring water to parched communities?

  • The Enviva plant in Northampton county, North Carolina.

    Biomass is promoted as a carbon neutral fuel. But is burning wood a step in the wrong direction?

30 September 2021

  • A dairy cow part of a UC Davis research project to find out if seaweed will reduce methane emissions from cattle.

    Kowbucha, seaweed, vaccines: the race to reduce cows’ methane emissions

    Agriculture is the largest anthropogenic source of this gas, accounting for about 40%, leading innovators to offer new solutions to tackle its bovine source

20 September 2021

  • the logos of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft displayed on a mobile phone and a laptop screen

    Big tech’s pro-climate rhetoric is not matched by policy action, report finds

    Tech companies poured $65m into lobbying in 2020 – but only 6% of their lobbying activity is targeted at climate policy

18 September 2021

  • A chip wafer at a TSMC fab

    The computer chip industry has a dirty climate secret

    As demand for chips surges, the semicondutor industry is trying to grapple with its huge carbon foot print

13 September 2021

  • People sit outside a Walmart store in Washington, DC

    Walmart has a plan to tackle the climate crisis. Can it pull it off?

    Walmart is attempting to erase its huge climate footprint while continuing to sell tens of millions of low-priced products

11 September 2021

  • Oil companies are saying they care about the climate crisis but we need to ask: are you still drilling for oil?

    ‘We’re going after creatives that greenwash fossil fuels’: the group targeting ad agencies

    Jamie Henn, the founder of Fossil Fuel Free Media, on how advertising agencies help legitimise the fossil fuel industry

5 September 2021

  • SpaceX test launches its SN15 Starship prototype on 5 May in Boca Chica, Texas.

    Elon Musk’s SpaceX launch site threatens wildlife, Texas environmental groups say

    The site in Boca Chica, south Texas is surrounded by protected lands that host a huge range of local wildlife including turtles and hundreds of bird species

3 September 2021

  • Air conditioning units outside a building

    How to make air conditioning less of an environmental nightmare

    As the world heats up so does the demand for air conditioning, which itself is a contributor to the climate crisis

29 August 2021

  • The world’s first floating wind farm 15 miles offshore of Aberdeenshire, in Scotland. The 30 megawatt wind can power approximately 20,000 households

    Floating wind turbines could open up vast ocean tracts for renewable power

    This relatively new technology has potential to help power a clean energy transition, if it can overcome some big hurdles

25 August 2021

  • Pigs and piglets by a forest

    ‘How is it sustainable if only 1% can afford your food?’: the man on a quest to change farming

    Chris Newman, founder of Virginia-based Sylvanaqua Farms, on why feeding people needs to be at the heart of sustainable farming

20 August 2021

  • Batteries at a factory in Nanjing in China’s eastern Jiangsu province, which makes lithium batteries for electric cars.

    Millions of electric car batteries will retire in the next decade. What happens to them?

    The quest to prevent batteries – rich in raw materials such as cobalt, lithium and nickel – ending up as a mountain of waste

19 August 2021

  • Downtown Ithaca New York State USA<br>People have lunch and walk in a pedestrian area of downtown Ithaca, New York State, USA on a sunny day.

    The US city that has raised $100m to climate-proof its buildings

    Ithaca, New York, has turned to private investors to help it decarbonize thousands of residential and commercial buildings

14 August 2021

  • A robot made by Carbon Robotics kills weeds on farmland using lasers.

    ‘Ten years ago this was science fiction’: the rise of weedkilling robots

    The makers of robot weeders say the machines can reduce pesticide use and be part of a more sustainable food system

13 August 2021

  • Shown is the Allbirds white sneaker collaboration with Adidas, showing a label with its carbon footprint.

    ‘Your outfit is killing the planet’: the company putting a label on fashion’s climate impact

    Allbirds’ sustainability lead Hana Kajimura on why the company uses carbon labeling and her hope that the fashion industry can become carbon negative

4 August 2021

  • Miyoko Schinner standing with a cow

    The ‘queen of vegan cheese’ wants to change the dairy industry

    Miyoko Schinner has been on a years-long quest to make tasty vegan cheese. Now she wants to help dairy farmers switch to plant-based farming

2 August 2021

  • Facade of a modern office building with lights on in the offices in the evening

    Is remote working better for the environment? Not necessarily

    Companies have a rare moment to reset working models. But climate calculations of remote v office work are complex

28 July 2021

  • Wind turbines in Wyoming

    Why is a big oil company investing huge amounts of money in Wyoming wind?

    Anschutz Corporation, which made billions drilling oil, is building a 732 power line to carry renewable energy to cities including Los Angeles and Pheonix

26 July 2021

  • Illustration of a factory's emissions which spiral to reveal an image of the word

    Green light: a new series on the critical role of companies in the climate crisis

    A new Guardian series explores companies’ accountability for the climate emergency and their efforts to tackle it
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