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At Zero Carbon, we have spent the past year thinking about one of the biggest sources of global greenhouse gas emissions: enteric methane emissions from livestock. These emissions remain unsolved as behaviour change and policy incentives have not taken off. In this article we review the scale of these emissions, the biochemistry in ruminant animals that produce them, the innovations being developed to solve them, and the drivers and barriers for these innovations. We share a

Nuclear power (from fission) is an established, zero-carbon electricity source and currently  supplies approximately 9% of global...

Copper metal has been critical to humankind’s development since the Bronze Age around 3000 BC. It is the third most widely used metal by...

The decarbonisation of the steel industry is proving to be a major challenge. The production of steel accounts for around   7% of human...

This article explores the untapped potential of waste water and wet waste - byproducts of our societal and industrial activities that...

This is the second article in a two-part series about investing in grid technologies. Read the first part here. In our previous article...

This is the first article in a two-part series about grid technologies. Here we cover the need for grid expansion and improvement, and in...

Carbon-based chemicals are critical to modern life—from the plastic packaging that wraps our food in the supermarket (polyethylene),...

What is ammonia and what is it for? Ammonia is essential to human life on earth. The size of the global population today would be much...

This is the second post in a series on long-duration energy storage. As mentioned in Part 1 of this post on grid-scale energy storage,...

We need to decarbonise electricity generation. Electricity generation worldwide accounted for 12.3 Gt CO2e in 2020, or around a third of...