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 …
Turning the Right Corner: Ensuring Development through a Low-Carbon Transport Sector finds that adopting new vehicle technologies and alternative fuels will not be enough to curb greenhouse gas emissions from transport: new patterns of mobility will also be needed. In developing countries where past infrastructure investments have not yet locked …
The latest round of UN sponsored climate talks kicked off in Bonn on Monday amid mounting concerns of high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The Bonn round of talks follows fresh data released by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego that carbon dioxide concentration in the …
New research released today by the Environmental Investment Organisation (EIO), a climate change and finance think tank, shows large quantities of emissions are not being accounted for. Public disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions among the leading BRICS companies is highly inconsistent with less than 20% of companies correctly adopting the …
New research released today by the Environmental Investment Organisation (EIO), a climate change and finance think tank, shows large quantities of emissions are not being accounted for. Public disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions among the leading Asia Pacific companies is highly inconsistent with less than 30% of companies correctly adopting …
The report offers an analysis of the state of emissions reporting across the largest 300 companies in the Asia-Pacific. The ET Carbon Rankings apply a uniform methodology across all sectors within a single public Ranking. This is one in a series of ET 2013 Carbon Ranking Reports covering the world’s …
The report offers an analysis of the state of emissions reporting across the largest 300 companies in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The ET Carbon Rankings apply a uniform methodology across all sectors within a single public Ranking. This is one in a series of ET 2013 Carbon …
PANJIM: The Goa Government has tabled the Goa Cess on Products and Substances Causing Pollution (Green Cess) Bill, 2013 to levy cess till 2 per cent of the sale value on products and substances causing pollution. The bill defines these products as: “those which upon their handling, consumption, utilization, combustion, …
Speakers at a meeting of national coordination body of the Mangroves for Future (MFF) programme on Thursday called for protection and conservation of mangrove forests which, they said, played a vital role in not only protecting coastline from soil erosion but also shielded coastal communities from cyclones and tsunamis. They …
EU politicians on Wednesday backed a compromise deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles from 2020 and also called for a 2025 target that would make cars even more fuel efficient. The proposal still has to be voted on by the full European Parliament and needs the endorsement of …
A massive gas-conditioning plant near Sale that will unlock a more carbon-intensive gas field off Victoria's east coast has been approved by the Environment Protection Authority. The $1 billion conditioning plant is being financed by BHP Billiton and ExxonMobil and will remove excess carbon dioxide and mercury from three new …
The European Parliament's Environment Committee today voted for new cars sold to achieve an average fuel economy of 95g per kilometre, or 3.9 litres per 100km, by 2020 from the current 130 grams. To achieve the reduction, the Environment Committee said that clean-car innovation should be encouraged by giving "super-credit" …
India has aggressive renewable energy targets and industry energy efficiency policies. But it faces significant infrastructure challenges which may derail otherwise good policy. This is mentioned in a report on the country’s national climate policy by Climate Policy Initiative, a US-based global policy effectiveness analysis and advisory organisation. The report …
Anthropogenic US greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) amounted to a CO2-equivalent 6,702.3 million metric tons in 2011, down 1.6 percent from 2010 and 6.9 percent below 2005 levels. Longer term, US GHG emissions have increased at an annual average rate of 0.4 percent since 1990, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's …
Bangladesh can slash greenhouse gas emissions by around 22 per cent by 2020 through introducing a variety of clean technologies that would cost less than $10 per tonne of carbon-dioxide equivalent, according to a study from the Asian Development Bank. ‘In Bangladesh, the sea level is predicted to rise 45 …
Energy ministers from 23 countries have decided to explore the possibility of setting up of a funding mechanism to promote clean energy across the world. In the ongoing meeting of the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), a unanimous message from the developed and developing nations was that not enough is being …
Renewable technologies & greater efforts by emerging economies among few bright spots The International Energy Agency (IEA) on Wednesday said the drive to clean up the world’s energy system had stalled. IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven told the 23-member Clean Energy Ministerial despite much talk by world leaders …
After the vote to prop up the carbon market failed, prices dropped 40% to €2.63 a tonne European Union politicians rejected a plan to prop up the world’s biggest carbon market on Tuesday, sending it plunging to a new record low and raising questions about its survival. After months of …
The rapid expansion of renewable technologies is one of the few bright spots in an otherwise bleak assessment of global progress towards low-carbon energy, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in an annual report to the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM). The report, "Tracking Clean Energy Progress", introduces the Energy Sector …
With the increase in number of vehicles and frequent traffic jams at major junctions of the city, the air pollution levels are increasing year by year forcing people’s health into danger. The major areas and road junctions that witness high air pollution in the city are Auto Nagar, Benz Circle, …
Tired of the high pollution levels in Bangalore? Blame it on two-wheelers which contribute the biggest chunk of air pollution. They contribute 41% of particulate and 67% of nitrogen oxide levels in the air. Vehicles are more threatening than other sources of pollution as they discharge emissions directly into the …
