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 …
This paper calculates, for the top twenty emitting countries, how much pricing of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is in their own national interests due to domestic co-benefits (leaving aside the global climate benefits). On average, nationally efficient prices are substantial, $57.5 per ton of CO2 (for year 2010), reflecting primarily …
The transport sector is a major consumer of energy and with 59 Mt CO2, or 17% of total greenhouse gases, the 2nd largest emitter in Thailand. This translates into 0.88 tonnes per capita. Freight and passenger transport are almost equal in their contribution to energy use and GHG emissions. The …
The University of Sydney has announced a review of its investment policies and said it will suspend investments in coal, following an outcry over $1m in shares it holds in the company behind the controversial Maules Creek mine. The university on Wednesday confirmed it had issued an instruction to make …
Runaway growth in the emission of greenhouse gases is swamping all political efforts to deal with the problem, raising the risk of 'severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts' over the coming decades, according to a draft of a major new UN report. Global warming is already cutting grain production by several …
The world is headed "down a dangerous path" with disruption of the food system possible within a decade as climate change undermines nations' ability to feed themselves, according to a senior World Bank official. Rising urban populations are contributing to expanded demand for meat, adding to nutrition shortages for the …
The momentum of global warming caused by the build-up of greenhouse gases is likely to overwhelm natural cooling processes within decades, according to research by the University of NSW. Global temperatures have largely plateaued during the past 15 years as natural variability – including oceans absorbing more heat and volcanic …
Burning Europe's lignite reserves would wipe out carbon budget from 2020 until the end of the century, says Greenpeace. New coal power stations designed to burn Europe's massive deposits of lignite pose a serious threat to the continent's decarbonisation efforts, according to figures released on Wednesday. Analysts from Greenpeace's Energydesk …
Nestle's coffee brand is accelerating its sustainability focus with the launch of an ambitious new programme to become 'carbon neutral' by 2020. The new sustainability programme, entitled The Positive Cup, was announced earlier today (27 August) by Nespresso's CEO Jean-Marc Duvoisin. It introduces several major initiatives that Duvoisin says will …
Rampant trash-burning is throwing more pollution and toxic particles into the air than governments are reporting, according to a scientific study estimating that more than 40 percent of the world’s garbage is burned. The study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, attempts the first comprehensive assessment of global …
Government auditors have taken a close look at a disputed calculation used by federal regulators to assess the long-term costs of carbon pollution. Their verdict: It was all done by the book. The hotly contested economic calculation, known as the "social cost of carbon," or SCC, sailed through a review …
The Obama administration is looking to reach “a sweeping international climate change agreement” that would not be a formal treaty that would require a two-thirds Senate approval — which almost certainly would never happen, The New York Times reported. Diplomats are trying to reach a deal in time for a …
Nespresso plans to spend 500 million Swiss francs ($550 million) in the next six years in an effort to improve the environmental and social impact of Europe’s biggest single-serve coffee brand. The Nestle SA (NESN) division’s sustainability program will include 15 million francs to assist farmers in Ethiopia, Kenya and …
The climate impacts of the world's fossil-fuelled power plants are being underestimated because of poor accounting, say researchers. Governments would get a truer picture if they included the lifetime emissions of a facility in the year it goes into production These "committed emissions" have been growing by 4% a year …
China’s carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product fell 5 percent in the first half of this year, Premier Li Keqiang said. Li made the comments at a meeting in Beijing yesterday with visiting Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne, China’s central government said in a statement …
The Obama administration is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress. In preparation for this agreement, to be signed at a United Nations summit meeting in 2015 in Paris, the negotiators are meeting …
The world is headed "down a dangerous path" with disruption of the food system possible within a decade as climate change undermines nations' ability to feed themselves, according to a senior World Bank official. Rising urban populations are contributing to expanded demand for meat, adding to nutrition shortages for the …
Picture this. Poor people in developing countries suffering from a lack of modern energy supply. A young woman cooking on an open-pit fire. Two boys reading by flashlight. An old woman warming her hands in front of an indoor electricity heater fire. These images were found in a recent advertising …
New coal power stations designed to burn Europe’s massive deposits of lignite pose a serious threat to the continent’s decarbonisation efforts, according to figures released on Wednesday. Analysts from Greenpeace’s Energydesk compiled data from the German government that shows burning Europe’s reserves of lignite would wipe out the EU’s entire …
"Patna has a huge potential to tap solar energy on the rooftop of houses and each house can convert into a power house, which will ultimately end the power crisis in the state capital," said Ramapati Kumar, CEO of the newly-launched Centre for Environment and Energy Development (CEED), at a …
China's State Council has published a guideline to promote the purchase and trading of emissions permits in regions piloting the scheme. The pilot regions must establish mechanisms for the purchase and trading of emissions rights by 2017 to lay a foundation for the scheme to be rolled out nationwide, said …
