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 …
Several thousand unionized coal miners, electrical workers and others filled this city's downtown on Thursday to protest the Obama administration's proposed rule to curb carbon emissions from the nation's power plants, ahead of two days of hearings on the issue in the city. But in an indication of how the …
Climate modelers from the University of New Hampshire have shown that the most likely explanation for the initiation of Antarctic glaciation during a major climate shift 34 million years ago was decreased carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. The finding counters a 40-year-old theory suggesting massive rearrangements of Earth's continents caused global …
The World Resources Institute’s Sustainability Initiative seeks to align the Institute’s business practices with its mission. Walking the talk on sustainability, a new report discloses the 2012 GHG inventory results and discusses GHG reduction projects and other sustainability projects completed in the last year.
This paper addresses the reduction of carbon emission as a global climate mitigation imperative and considers the negative impacts of climate change on food production. It argues that, in order to ensure that climate adaptation, food security and climate mitigation objectives are mutually achieved, local level intervention is necessary. The …
With the objective of stimulating timely and open discussion of the current attempt to formulate a new climate agreement—to be reached at the 21st meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP-21) in Paris during November of 2015—analysis is conducted of the expected developments in the lead-up negotiations. Based on the …
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published a report and illustrated guide demonstrating how tackling climate change can also help address some of the economic and social challenges facing the UK. The report’s authors argue that, while addressing climate change is important in its own right, taking action …
Packaging and transportation giant UPS has announced it is doubling its carbon intensity reduction target from transportation to 20% by 2020. In its annual Sustainability Report released yesterday (July 30), the firm reported that it has met its 2016 goal of reducing air and ground carbon intensity by 10% three …
President Barack Obama's proposed rule to curb carbon emissions from the nation's power plants could raise costs and affect reliability in the U.S. electricity system, federal regulators told Congress. But the commissioners of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the government agency charged with overseeing the electric grid and other parts …
For more than a century, Bill Taylor's family has used the calm, protected waters of Puget Sound to raise oysters, planting billions of larvae in underwater beds and then harvesting them to ship to some of the finest restaurants in the world. But then something went wrong. After the hatchery …
The environmental credentials of the Scottish drinks industry have been given a further uplift with financial support being given to help another large distillery reduce its carbon emissions. The Green Investment Bank (GIB) is putting forward £5m of funding for the Balmenach distillery in Speyside, which will support the installation …
The Rev. Lennox Yearwood punched his fist in the air as he rhythmically boomed into the microphone: “This is a moment for great leadership. This is a moment for our country to stand up. This is our moment.” But Mr. Yearwood’s audience was not a church. It was the Environmental …
Sixteen-foot waves are buffeting an area of the Arctic Ocean that until recently was permanently covered in sea ice—another sign of a warming climate, scientists say. Because wave action breaks up sea ice, allowing more sunlight to warm the ocean, it can trigger a cycle that leads to even less …
This new report published by the the UNICEF Office of Research details both the accelerating global threats to children, as well as the urgent need to incorporate a comprehensive child rights approach, including directly involving children, in adaptation and mitigation efforts. It estimates that over the next decade, in South …
Plans to charge drivers of diesel cars about £10 to drive into central London are being considered. The levy would be on top of the current £11.50 congestion charge for driving into the centre of the capital. London Mayor Boris Johnson wants the new Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to …
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s flights around the world helped fund a wind farm on a luxury hotel in India and a biogas plant run by a Chinese beer maker. Germany spent about 9.9 million euros ($13.3 million) from 2008 through 2012 to offset the greenhouse-gas emissions made by the air …
The Environmental Protection Agency launched public hearings on Tuesday on its proposal to slash carbon emissions from the country's power plants, and interested groups ranging from coal miners to senators made their views known. The agency is holding two-day hearings in Atlanta, Denver, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. and expects oral …
Rising levels of water vapour high above the Earth are likely to intensify the effects of global warming in coming decades, say scientists. The increasing amounts of water in the upper troposphere are a direct result of human activity, research suggests. Computer simulations predict that as burning fossil fuels warms …
Report Confirms Concerns Raised By Experts In The Past The Environment Status Report (ESR) of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for 2013-14 has confirmed what environmentalists and experts have said all along -expanding the city limits would strain Pune's infrastructure and in turn lead to serious environmental degradation. The report …
Drivers in London with vehicles fuelled by diesel will be charged an additional fee similar to the existing £11.50 congestion charge, if proposals by the mayor Boris Johnson are accepted. The plans are aimed at reducing air pollution, which in the capital has reached levels far above legal safety limits, …
MPs have endorsed the findings of a UN climate panel that says humans are the dominant cause of global warming. Members of the Energy and Climate Change Committee said there was "no reason to doubt the credibility of the science" of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But two MPs, …
