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 …
The European Union on Tuesday agreed a compromise to enforce stricter rules on carbon dioxide emissions for EU cars, ending months of wrangling after Germany insisted an earlier deal was torn up. The new outline agreement delays 100 percent implementation of a limit of 95 grams of carbon dioxide per …
The climate talks in Warsaw may not have come up to the expectation of poor nations but it ended on a hopeful note on Sunday with negotiators taking a significant step towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation by agreeing to result-based payment to developing countries which cut carbon by …
China will launch two new pilot carbon trading schemes this week in Beijing and Shanghai as it strives to cut soaring rates of greenhouse gas, reduce choking smog and determine the best system for a nationwide roll-out. China, the world's biggest source of climate-changing carbon emissions, is under domestic pressure …
Even if carbon dioxide emissions came to a sudden halt, the greenhouse gas already present in the Earth's atmosphere could continue to warm our planet for hundreds of years, a new study has found. The study led by Princeton University researchers suggests that it might take a lot less carbon …
Fraught UN climate talks revealed growing frustration this week among vulnerable nations and observers with the political stance of emerging economies like China and India in the battle to stave off dangerous Earth warming. As the global balance of economic and political clout shifts, the world of climate negotiations is …
BEIJING: China, the world's largest carbon emitter, on Sunday said it was not satisfied with but still accepted the results of the climate talks in Poland with the participating nations reaching a compromise to pave the way to a new climate treaty in Paris in 2015. "There are many issues …
A new research has revealed that even if carbon dioxide emissions came to a sudden halt, the gas already present in Earth's atmosphere is enough to warm our planet for next hundreds of years. The study led by researchers at Princeton University suggested that it might take a lot less …
WARSAW: Laughing gas is, indeed, no laughing matter. The United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP) on Thursday released an eye-opening report on the sidelines of the ongoing climate talks, warning that nitrous oxide (N2O) — commonly known as laughing gas — with 300 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide …
Trends in Alaska ecosystem carbon fluxes were predicted from inputs of monthly MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) vegetation index time-series combined with the NASA-CASA (Carnegie Ames Stanford Approach) carbon cycle simulation model over the past decade. CASA simulates monthly net ecosystem production (NEP) as the difference in carbon fluxes between …
The amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere in 2013 is expected to hit a new high of 36 billion tonnes, according to a Carbon Budget released today by the Global Carbon Project (GCP). This is a 2.1 percent rise from 2012 based on data from the same group. …
Scientists say countries attending United Nations climate talks are going backwards on policy and risking 4C of global warming There's a gap that's getting wider in the global climate talks taking place in Warsaw between the near unanimous pledge to keep global warming below 2C and the ability of current …
Chevron, Exxon and BP among companies most responsible for climate change since dawn of industrial age, figures show The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the …
A leading climate thinktank has joined the business community in urging the Coalition to reconsider its ban on using international carbon permits to help meet Australia’s greenhouse gas reduction goals. The Climate Institute is urging the environment minister, Greg Hunt, to set aside an “insurance” buffer in his “Direct Action” …
The governments of Norway, Britain and the United States on Wednesday said they will allocate $280 million of their multi-billion dollar climate change finances to a new initiative aimed at halting deforestation. The announcement was made at U.N. talks in Warsaw, where more than 9,000 delegates are meeting to hammer …
NTPC on Thursday said the power producer along with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd have set up a pilot plant for bio-fixation of carbon dioxide at Faridabad power station. “Two conjoining algae ponds of area have been constructed to draw carbon dioxide from stacks at the project. The inoculation in small …
Believe it or not, Kolkata's energy efficiency has doubled since the turn of the century and is projected to increase by two times in the next 12 years. Though the city's energy consumption has nearly doubled in the past 13 years as has the per capita energy use, energy required …
Believe it or not, Kolkata's energy efficiency has doubled since the turn of the century and is projected to increase by two times in the next 12 years. Though the city's energy consumption has nearly doubled in the past 13 years as has the per capita energy use, energy required …
People around the world are feeling the "wrath of a warming planet", U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday, urging almost 200 governments to take tougher action to reach a deal in 2015 on fighting global warming. Ban told environment ministers at climate talks in Warsaw they had a steep …
The U.N. climate chief urged a radical clean-up of the coal industry on Monday to help limit global warming, at an industry meeting in Warsaw condemned by environmentalists as a distraction from the nearby U.N. climate change conference. Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N.'s Climate Change Secretariat, told the coal …
EU diplomats on Wednesday rubber-stamped the European Union's plan to remove some of its massive surplus of carbon emission permits from the market, moving a long legal process a step closer to completion. The intervention will remove a maximum of 900 million allowances from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). …
