Climate change: seven good-news stories for the planet in 2023

Methane blockers for cows and a Plant Based Treaty, all with the potential to help combat climate change

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Cows could be given ‘methane blockers’ to help meet climate change targets
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With major climate-change related disasters hitting the headlines over the past years, the future of the planet can seem bleak – but new breakthroughs are providing scientists with a glimmer of hope.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made up of the world’s leading climate scientists, last month warned that the window for action was rapidly closing. “Climate change has very much become a ‘now’ problem rather than a future problem,” said Brad Plumer, a reporter for The New York Times’s climate desk. “But there’s always a way to improve the situation.”

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