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The US has put a price on the social cost of carbon, but economists say it is not high enough (Credit: Getty Images)
Carbon Cost

Climate change's most important number

By Catherine Early

Developing nations are calling for justice on climate change, largely caused by richer nations (Credit: Getty Images)
Carbon Cost

The world's fight for climate justice

By Jocelyn Timperley
The countries that are experiencing the brunt of climate change tend to be those that did least to cause it (Credit: Getty Images)
Carbon Cost

How $100bn could fight climate change

By Kajsa Rosenblad
To reach net zero by 2050, entire industries will have to decarbonise and change the way they operate (Credit: Frederic J Brown/Getty Images)
Carbon Cost

Why 'net zero' isn't always enough

By Kelly Oakes
In many developed nations, there is an aspiration to high-carbon lifestyle choices, such as eating meat (Credit: Getty Images)
Carbon Cost

The lifestyle that emits most CO2

By Laura Paddison
In Scotland, researchers are intricately mapping a woodland ecosystem as it regenerates – and what that translates to in monetary value (Credit: Getty Images)
Carbon Cost

Scotland's experiment to value nature

By Kelly Oakes
Food is not the only reason to grow crops – conventional farming methods can be replaced or augmented with carbon farming (Credit: Getty Images)
Carbon Cost

A better use for half Earth's land?

By Alasdair Lane
A global carbon market would have potential to significantly lower the world's carbon emissions, proponents say (Credit: Getty Images)
Carbon Cost

How trading CO2 could save the climate

By Isabelle Gerretsen
Direct air capture fans in Hinwil, Austria, run by Swiss company Climeworks. The system captures CO2 using energy from a rubbish incinerator (Credit: Orjan Ellingvag/Alamy)
Carbon Cost

Can we 'undo' climate change?

By Jocelyn Timperley
Should people with a high-carbon lifestyle be penalised for their emissions? (Credit: Getty Images)
Carbon Cost

The Finnish town that rations carbon

By Frank Swain

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