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 …
Nations launched a new round of talks on Monday for a 2015 deal to cut Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions in the aftermath of a deadly Philippines typhoon the UN’s climate chief labelled “sobering”. The 12-day United Nations talks opened in Warsaw amid a slew of warnings about potentially disastrous warming …
Technology and high prices are opening up new oil resources, but this does not mean the world is on the verge of an era of oil abundance, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) 2013 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO-2013). Although rising oil output from North America and …
The UN's Montreal Protocol was designed to phase out industrial gases that destroy Earth's protective ozone layer A slowdown in global warming that climate sceptics cite in favour of their cause was partly induced by one of the world's most successful environment treaties, a study said today. The UN's Montreal …
While tourist places like Manali and Dalhousie have witnessed early snowfall this year resulting into tourism boom, Shimla is still awaiting season's first snowfall. Global warming has not only resulted in rise in temperature, but has also affected snow and rain pattern in the region. Temperatures in the north-western Himalayan …
World Bank has released a new report -- On Thin Ice: How Cutting Pollution can Slow Warming and Save Lives. The report that talks about ways to mitigate the effects of climate change says fast action to cut common pollutants like soot (also known as black carbon) and methane will …
It isn’t just eye injuries, after Diwali hospitals and clinics in the city are also seeing a rise in the number of respiratory infections and allergy cases. City-based pulmonologists said that over the past two-three days such cases have gone up 10-20 per cent. “For the past two-three days I …
Almost 200 nations will meet in Warsaw from November 11-22 to work on a deal due to be agreed in 2015 to fight climate change. Following are the main findings of a report in September by leading scientists - the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - that are …
Atmospheric volumes of greenhouse gases blamed for climate change hit a new record in 2012, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Wednesday. "For all these major greenhouse gases the concentrations are reaching once again record levels," WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud told a news conference in Geneva at which he …
The World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin released Wednesday in Geneva said greenhouse gases reached a record high in 2012 with carbon dioxide and methane touching a new high. The CO2 increase accounted for 80% of the increase and was just hovering below the 400 parts per million …
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats have agreed to aim for a 40 percent cut in European carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 compared with 1990 levels, a draft paper from coalition talks showed. "We want to give climate protection a central role in energy policy," the …
The primary objective is to quantify and trace historic and cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide and methane to the largest extant fossil fuel and cement producers. This project focuses on the industrial carbon fuels and cement manufacturing, and details the annual and cumulative contribution of each of the largest 90 …
Greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 will be 8 billion to 12 billion tonnes more than the level needed to keep global warming to only 2 degrees Celsius and avoid severe climate change, a United Nations report estimated on Tuesday. The annual U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) report analysed countries' current pledges …
* Pakistan at 135th position in carbon dioxide emissions, but ranked 3rd on the list of most vulnerable countries * Annual cost of restoring environment is now up to $5.2 ISLAMABAD: Science and Technology Minister Zahid Hamid has said Pakistan is one of the countries which are facing the threat …
The World Meteorological Organization’s annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin shows that between 1990 and 2012 there was a 32% increase in radiative forcing – the warming effect on our climate – because of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other heat-trapping long-lived gases such as methane and nitrous oxide. Carbon dioxide, mainly from …
Greenhouse-gas emissions from power generators, oil refineries and other plants in California climbed in 2012 as a nuclear plant shutdown and low hydropower supplies increased the state’s reliance on natural gas. Power-plant releases rose 35 percent to 41.6 million metric tons last year, according to data posted today on the …
Officials of EU member states are almost certain to agree on a mandate this week to begin talks with the European parliament on a proposal to prop up carbon prices, an EU official said on Monday. "I am 99 percent confident we will get a mandate on Friday," said the …
Total greenhouse gas emissions by China and other emerging nations since 1850 will surpass those of rich nations this decade, complicating U.N. talks about who is most to blame for global warming, a study showed on Thursday. Developing nations accounted for 48 percent of cumulative emissions from 1850 to 2010, …
Germany's Social Democrats (SPD), in talks with Angela Merkel's conservatives to form a coalition government, will back European Union plans to prop up carbon prices by 'backloading' permits, party sources told Reuters. The plan has been stalled for months partly because Berlin has withheld backing due to differences within Merkel's …
California's output of heat-trapping greenhouse gases rose to 437.8 million metric tonnes in 2012, an 8.5 million tonne increase over the previous year as power plants relied more on natural gas to produce electricity, the state said on Monday. Natural gas usage was up last year due to a lower …
Predicted sea-level rises threaten many of the world's most important cities, write Alison Kemper and Roger Martin We owe much of our prosperity to oceans. As UK readers know best, easy access to the sea allows economies to trade and to grow. Shanghai, New York, Hong Kong, London, Sydney, Mumbai, …
