This overview sets the scene for the various modules in the Renewables 2024 Global Status Report Collection. It provides high-level trends on the status of renewables in the wider fossil fuel-dominated energy system in the context of global challenges such as climate change, development goals and the geopolitical landscape. Urgent …
BEIJING – China is expected to unveil its long-awaited national pledges to reduce carbon emissions beyond 2020, a state-run newspaper said Monday, as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visits Belgium and France ahead of a Paris climate summit. The world’s number one emitter has yet to put forward its intended nationally …
Bill Gates has announced he will invest $2bn (£1.3bn) in renewable technologies initiatives, but rejected calls to divest from the fossil fuel companies that are burning carbon at a rate that ignores international agreements to limit global warming. Speaking to the Financial Times, Gates said that he would double his …
Unilever's innovation platform, Unilever Foundry, has launched a new global crowdsourcing community to find new ways to tackle global sustainability problems. Announced at Lions Innovation in Cannes by Unilever senior vice president of global media Luis di Comolast week, Foundry IDEAS will enable collaboration between consumers and innovators to look …
Ocean acidification negatively affects many marine species and is predicted to cause widespread changes to marine ecosystems. Similarly, freshwater ecosystems may potentially be affected by climate-change-related acidification; however, this has received far less attention. Freshwater fish represent 40% of all fishes, and salmon, which rear and spawn in freshwater, are …
Governments are under-utilising taxation as a tool to curb the environmental consequences of energy use, foregoing revenue and weakening their attack on the principal source of greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change and air pollution, according to new OECD analysis. Taxing Energy Use 2015 - OECD and Selected Partner …
Environmentalists, activists and scholars on Friday criticised the Narendra Modi government for reportedly attempting to change the environmental policy regime in favour of corporate entities. On occasion of World Environment Day here, environmental governance during one year of NDA government was assessed. “A high level committee was constituted to review …
German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Wednesday he was considering an alternative to a proposed levy on coal-fired power plants and would make a final decision on July 1. Germany is wrestling with how to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2)emissions from the energy sector to stop it from falling short …
Natural gas has been touted as an environmentally friendly substitute to coal and oil production, but a new report estimates enough gas is leaking to negate most of the climate benefits of process. The report, commissioned by the Environmental Defense Fund and carried out by environmental consulting group ICF International, …
On June 19, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration jointly proposed new standards to reduce the fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of new heavy-duty vehicles, tractors, trailers, and engines. The new Phase 2 regulations would be implemented from model years 2018 to …
Order of the Hague District Court in the matter of Urgenda Foundation Vs The State of the Netherlands (Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment) dated 24/06/2015 regarding action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands. The Hague District Court has ruled today that the State must take more …
This report was compiled by Ecofys to support The New Climate Economy (NCE) and the publication of a report on the role of international collaboration in climate action, which provides ten recommendations to catalyse international climate action. The work presented in this report provides an evaluation of the mitigation impact …
That's the subject of intense research around the world, as scientists try to predict how increasing levels of greenhouse gases – and the additional heat they trap from the sun – will alter the climate of different regions. For most regions of Australia, the climate will become warmer and drier, …
A well-known climate change doubter almost made it to a key Vatican summit on the issue before his invitation to attend was withdrawn at the last minute, it was claimed last night. French writer Philippe de Larminat - who believes that solar activity rather than greenhouse gases are causing global …
This paper uses a randomized experimental design with real-time electronic stove temperature measurements and controlled cooking tests to estimate the fuelwood and carbon dioxide savings from an improved cookstove program in the process of being implemented in rural Ethiopia. Knowing more about how households interact with improved cookstoves is important, …
In the context of the expected transition to lower carbon powertrains and fuels, the Auto Council vehicle roadmaps have proven to be a useful tool to focus research, funding and policy, bringing into one place the industry’s views on future technology options, deployment steps and corresponding policy drivers. To complement …
Four EU nations and a European politicians from across the political divide called on the European Commission to publish next year a challenging 2025 emissions standard for new cars. Limits on how much carbon dioxide cars can emit has had a major impact on cutting fuel consumption and improving air …
LANZHOU, June 19 (Xinhua) -- New data may reinforce the relationship between melting permafrost and global warming. Permafrost, soil or rock that remains frozen all year round, releases greenhouse gases when it thaws, accelerating global warming, according to Zhang Tingjun, dean of the college of earth and environmental sciences, Lanzhou …
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is set on Friday to unveil a major climate change regulation intended to rein in planet-warming carbon pollution from heavy-duty trucks. The rule, to be unveiled by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department, is the latest in a march of pollution constraints that …
For the first time in four decades, the world's gross domestic product (GDP) rose in 2014 without a coinciding rise in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to the Renewables 2015 Global Status Report. The report also finds that 2014 was a record year for wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) installations, …
The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) released a report demonstrating that increases in clean energy investments create more job opportunities. The paper, presented at the Vienna Energy Forum 2015, states that of the world’s 45,000 million metric tons of greenhouse gases (GHG) …
