All carbon footprint articles
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Research
Analysis of three French chemistry labs shows how they could halve their carbon footprint by 2030
Open-source tool helps researchers evaluate a series of carbon mitigation strategies
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Opinion
Are chemicals the elephant in the sustainability room?
What the transition to a net zero, circular economy means for chemists and the chemicals industry
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Article
A formula to calculate carbon
World’s leading chemical companies spearhead initiative to decarbonise supply chains
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Article
AstraZeneca strengthens academic collaborations for a sustainable future
Purpose-driven academic partnerships are helping AstraZeneca reduce its carbon footprint
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News
Study casts doubt on cultivated meat’s low carbon promise
Preprint suggests that food grown from animal cells could have a global warming potential many times greater than beef
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Opinion
Twelve reasons for labs to go greener
How your lab can benefit from cutting energy, water and waste
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Business
Setting the standard for calculating indirect emissions
Industry collaboration creates carbon footprinting guidelines for chemical products
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Research
Labs’ carbon footprint under scrutiny as tool calculates impact of buildings and scientists
Software reveals environmental impact of over 500 French labs
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Careers
When scientific conferences went online, diversity and inclusion soared
New data show that female attendance at virtual science and engineering meetings grew by as much as 253%, and gender queer scientist attendance jumped 700%
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Careers
The conference conundrum
Following the Covid-19 pandemic, is it time to rethink events for good?
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News
Royal Society of Chemistry pledges to cut carbon emissions to zero by 2040
Commitment is part of a strategy to boost ‘chemistry’s contribution to sustainability’
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Review
How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything
What’s the climate impact of a Google search, a return trip from London to Hong Kong or having a child?
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News
The ‘Impossible Whopper’ has a secret ingredient: chemistry
The plant-based patty uses haem harvested from genetically engineered yeast
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News
Zero-emissions economy is both feasible and affordable for the UK
Committee on Climate Change backs low carbon target for 2050
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News
‘Fly or die’ for success in academia is a myth
Study finds little evidence that getting ahead in research rests on jetting around the world
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News
Asthmatics encouraged to switch to lower carbon footprint inhalers
The majority of inhalers prescribed in UK contain a potent greenhouse gas
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News
EU sets target for its economy to be climate neutral by 2050
European commission looking to new technologies and policy changes to make the EU the first major economy to be net zero emissions
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Research
New front opened for greener high-performance polymers
Energy needed to make composite similar to those in Boeing’s Dreamliner cut by nine orders of magnitude
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Opinion
Abandoning science's jet set
We’re not ready to avoid conferences to cut our carbon footprints