The fashion industry and its supply chain are responsible for ten percent of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions every year, according to the World Economic Forum. And as footwear companies have taken ...

There’s a relatively new word doing the rounds in sustainability research and policy: defossilization. Beyond expert circles, it isn’t necessarily obvious that phasing out fossil fuels does not mean ...

Hours before sunrise on Thursday, March 19, I watched the price of crude-oil futures bounce like a ball: US$96.81, 96.78, 96.82, 96.85—prices only surpassed in the past five years in 2022, when Russia ...

Creating a “circular economy” that reclaims much of the existing carbon in fossil-fueled power generation and difficult-to-recycle materials could lead to “defossilization.” For this to happen, the ...

Last month, we described some of the nascent steps a number of European countries are taking towards defossilization — that is, to find sustainable sources of carbon (Nature 649, 267; 2026). Under net ...

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The industry sector is most challenging to defossilize, due to high energy and feedstock demand, large and continuously running production plants, hard-to-abate process emissions, and infrastructural ...

Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms A leading UN expert is calling for criminal penalties against those peddling ...