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Harnessing the fossil fuel industry to combat climate change? It’s more than a pipe dream

  • Written by Dr Richard Meade, Senior Research Fellow, Auckland University of Technology
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Many might choke at the suggestion Big Oil could play a key role in saving the climate. But, culpability for past actions aside, it is worth considering how fossil fuel interests might be recruited to combat global warming.

International commitments to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 leave less than three decades to...

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