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David Fickling

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The Hollywood fires will cause harm long after they burn out

The Hollywood fires will cause harm long after they burn out
15.01.2025 10

The Japan Times

David Fickling

The year’s worst climate news you haven’t heard about

There’s been no shortage of grim climate news to hit the headlines over the past year. In March, the United Nations’ weather agency declared 2023...

30.12.2024 10

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David Fickling

An OPEC for solar power isn’t going to work

What do you do in an energy industry that’s facing its first speed bumps after decades of meteoric growth? In the case of oil, the answer in 1960...

20.12.2024 10

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David Fickling

Plastics failure is a canary in the climate coal mine

You might have missed it amid the noise of the Trump transition and the sound of the European and Japanese auto industries collapsing. But the...

05.12.2024 10

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David Fickling

Peak beef could already be here

If you want to turn climate policy into a bitter culture war, there are few more effective weapons than a Big Mac. On one side, environmentalists...

27.11.2024 4

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David Fickling

Clean power must offer more hope to beat fossil fuels

You can regard the depressing denouement of the COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan at the weekend as a sort of diplomatic echo of the U.S....

26.11.2024 2

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David Fickling

Gas got America off coal. Now, it's coming for Asia's oil.

To many in the petroleum industry, natural gas is the unsung hero of the energy transition. It may not be a clean fuel, but it’s nowhere near as...

26.11.2024 6

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David Fickling

Japan hopes electric cars are just a bad dream

20.10.2024 2

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David Fickling

EV charging faces deeper problems than we realize

When’s the last time you visited a gas station that sold nothing but gas? If the answer is "never,” you’ve hit on one of the key problems for...

18.09.2024 2

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David Fickling

A flood of hydro is washing coal from China's grid

Summer rains are leaving China sodden. That’s pushing coal underwater. After several years of drought, rainfall has been lashing the country this...

06.09.2024 3

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David Fickling

An activist investor could green Japan for $700 million

Billionaires with an eye on their legacy rarely do things on a small scale. Take Australia’s fifth-richest person, Mike Cannon-Brookes. The...

03.09.2024 3

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David Fickling

Olympics host cities don’t belong on a warming planet

What’s the biggest event at the Olympic Games? There’s a good case that it’s not running, or swimming, or gymnastics, but the celebration of...

31.07.2024 4

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David Fickling

The great climate change wealth transfer is here

There has rarely been a better time to be a seller of fossil fuels — nor a worse time to be exposed to their effects. Thanks to resilient crude...

22.07.2024 20

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David Fickling