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 …
Heavy-polluting power plants have detailed ''clean investment plans'' in exchange for $1 billion in carbon price compensation delivered this month, revealing limited, or even no, action at some generators to improve emissions rates. The reports, including those from six Victorian brown coal plants, were handed to the federal government in …
Prime minister-elect Tony Abbott has pledged to repeal the country's carbon tax to boost economic competitiveness, so it is ironic that Australia is about to host the world's most ambitious project for capturing carbon dioxide and storing it underground. Starting in 2014/15, Chevron will begin injecting 120 million tonnes of …
Fifty of the 500 largest listed companies in the world are responsible for nearly three quarters of the group’s 3.6 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, so finds the CDP Global 500 Climate Change Report 2013 released. This report provides the most authoritative evaluation of corporate progress on …
This FAO study provides a global account of the environmental footprint of food wastage (i.e. both food loss and food waste) along the food supply chain, focusing on impacts on climate, water, land and biodiversity. A model has been developed to answer two key questions: what is the magnitude of …
Leaders attending the Group of 20 summit of the world's biggest economies in St. Petersburg, Russia, agreed on Friday to phase down the use of certain potent greenhouse gases known to damage the climate. The White House cited the agreement to cooperate on phasing down the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), …
Progress on reducing CO2 emissions in the car manufacturing industry is being undermined by the use of 'supercredits' and the manipulation of tests, according to a new report. Conducted by Transport & Environment (T&E;), the report finds that carmakers are using "loopholes" such as supercredits for selling electric vehicles and …
Poland will reduce its carbon emissions through new technologies rather than by cutting output of polluting coal, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday. Poland relies on coal to produce more than 90 percent of its electricity and is home to the European installation that emits the most carbon dioxide …
Canada’s Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said his nation wants to work with the U.S. to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, including from Alberta’s oil sands, the source of crude to be carried by the Keystone XL pipeline. Canada is pursuing policies to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions from using oil sands to the …
The objective of this study was to demonstrate a new, cost-effective method to define the sustainable amounts of harvested wood products in Southeast Asian countries case studies, while avoiding degradation (net loss) of total wood carbon stocks. Satellite remote sensing from the MODIS sensor was used in the CASA (Carnegie …
Marine phytoplankton are responsible for ~50% of the CO2 that is fixed annually worldwide, and contribute massively to other biogeochemical cycles in the oceans1. Their contribution depends significantly on the interplay between dynamic environmental conditions and the metabolic responses that underpin resource allocation and hence biogeochemical cycling in the oceans. …
Questions being raised over urgency of situation but report affirms man-made climate change is reality The climate has not been warming over the past 15 years at rates predicted earlier, the U.N.’s Integrated Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report, to be released September end, is going to say. The …
WWF Nepal and the Government of Nepal’s Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding today to launch the second phase of the WWF Nepal Gold Standard Biogas VER Project. A total of 20,000 biogas plants will be installed during this phase over a period of eight years …
The World Bank said on Tuesday it was planning "aggressive action" to help developing nations cut emissions of soot and other air pollutants blamed for causing climate change, in a shift also meant to protect human health and aid crop growth. Of its funding to poor nations, almost 8 percent …
Carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere have increased by about 0.5 per cent every year during the last decade, satellite observations of greenhouse gases have found. The data also shows that recent methane increases are likely due to man-made emissions, researchers said. Atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane are the two …
The EU is ready to compromise over its tax on airline carbon emissions if opponents, led by the United States and China, apply a similar levy by 2016, a European source said Wednesday. The source said Brussels will put the plan to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) later this …
The trust for the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism, the operator of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas credit program, had an operating surplus of $82 million in the 18 months through June 30, as offset supply increased. Fees and other income amounted to $141 million in the period, compared with …
The Chinese capital Beijing should take the lead and make breakthroughs to prevent and treat air pollution by prioritizing environmental protection, Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli said on Tuesday. The vice-premier made the remarks during an inspection tour on air pollution prevention and treatment in the city, which is often subject …
Talks at the U.N.'s aviation body must bridge a deep divide between developed and emerging nations over airline emissions to avert the threat of a carbon trade war with the European Union. After more than a decade of debate at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), there is little sign …
Diesel generator sets that are increasingly being used for the daily power needs in households and offices have been found emitting more harmful gases than vehicles in the Kathmandu valley, according to a report. A study, ‘Diesel for Power Generation: Inventories and Black Carbon Emissions in Kathmandu Valley,’ has found …
US and European Union envoys are seeking more clarity from the United Nations on a slowdown in global warming that climate skeptics have cited as a reason not to “panic” about environmental changes, leaked documents show. They're requesting that more details on the so-called “hiatus” be included in a key …
