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 …
A team of researchers at Ohio State University (OSU) spent the past 2 years developing a clean way of harnessing the power of coal and have recently found great success in their research scale combustion system. The team is now able to harness clean coal energy chemically without combustion with …
Yesterday over 35,000 people rallied in Washington D.C. for urgent action on climate change, which, according to organizers, was the largest climate march in U.S. history. Activists called on the Obama Administration to do much more to tackle climate change, including rejecting the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would bring carbon-heavy …
China will proactively introduce a set of new taxation policies designed to preserve the environment, including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, according to a senior official with the Ministry of Finance. The government will collect the environmental protection tax instead of pollutant discharge fees, as well as levy a …
Climate change is posing serious threats to country’s agricultural productivity and water resources and it cannot be avoided totally, but its effects can be mitigated through developing high temperature tolerant, climate resilient, climate smart and genetically modified crops.Climate change has visible signs in Pakistan which include hotter summers, early cold …
A field experiment was conducted to (i) examine the diurnal and seasonal soil carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes pattern in rice paddy fields in central China and (ii) assess the role of floodwater in controlling the emissions of CO2 from soil and floodwater in intermittently draining rice paddy soil. The soil …
German proposals to protect its output of big, luxury cars threaten EU plans to limit carbon emissions by 2020 and could jeopardize future ambitions, a document from the bloc's executive said. Proposals from the German government and German Christian Democrat politician Thomas Ulmer undermine attempts to enforce a 95 grams …
More than 75 environmental organizations Monday urged the European Parliament to end the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme, launched seven years ago as a market-oriented way of reducing pollution and greenhouse gases. The parliament is to vote Tuesday on a plan by the European Commission to overhaul the ETS with …
The European Union’s plan to tackle a glut of emission permits is on track to be voted by the full EU Parliament in mid-April, Matthias Groote, the lawmaker in charge of the draft measure, said after it won approval by a panel he chairs. “My role is to build a …
China's renewable energy power generation in 2012 rose 30.3 percent from a year earlier to 968 billion kilowatt-hours, according to the State Electricity Regulatory Commission. Solar electrical energy generation in 2012 surged 414 percent year-on-year to 3.5 billion kWhs while hydroelectricity rose 29.3 percent year-on-year to 864.1 billion kWhs. Wind …
Tata Power has registered its 50.4 MW wind project at Samana, Gujarat, under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The project is expected to generate about 76,000 CERs (certified emission reduction) per annum. The wind plant at Samana, commissioned in May 2009, uses 63 wind turbine generators of 800 KW each. …
In what was billed as the largest climate rally in U.S. history, thousands of people marched past the White House on Sunday to urge President Obama to reject a controversial pipeline and take other steps to fight climate change. Organizers, including the Sierra Club, estimated that more than 35,000 people …
China will step up efforts to develop energy-saving internal combustion engines and promote their use in coming years to reduce emissions, according to a guideline issued by the State Council. Energy-saving internal combustion engines will account for 60 percent of the total engines in use by 2015, the guideline issued …
A Bill to address climate disruptions, reduce carbon pollution, enhance the use of clean energy, and promote resilience in the infrastructure of the United States, and for other purposes.
Technologies and methodologies for promoting sustainable and environment-friendly power generation methods through the use of coal were discussed by Indian and foreign delegates at a seminar organised at the Center for Research in Rural and Industrial Development here today. In his address, CRRID Director General, Prof SS Gill said 70 …
Development of new technology would move UK away from fossil fuels and generate two-thirds of power by 2050 The UK will need to develop a huge fleet of currently experimental nuclear reactors by the middle of the century, to generate around two-thirds of the country's electricity supply if it is …
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the country’s first regional system for capping carbon emissions and creating a market in carbon allowances, proposed a fundamental change on Thursday to increase electrical utilities’ incentive to cut emissions from fossil-fuel plants by raising the cost of compliance. The regional group proposed a 45 …
The Amazon rainforest is less vulnerable to die off because of global warming than widely believed because the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide also acts as an airborne fertilizer, a study showed on Wednesday. The boost to growth from CO2, the main gas from burning fossil fuels blamed for causing climate …
Greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants fell 4.6 percent in 2011 as more generators were switched to cleaner-burning natural gas and renewable sources from coal, according to new data from the Environmental Protection Agency. The agency's second inventory of greenhouse gas emissions reported by the country's largest industrial polluters …
Researchers say that the natural ability of sea urchins to absorb CO2 could be a model for an effective carbon capture and storage system. Newcastle University scientists discovered by chance that urchins use the metal nickel to turn carbon dioxide into shell. They say the technique can be harnessed to …
Energy-saving technologies and a doubling in renewables led to the reduction in climate pollution, new figures show America's carbon dioxide emissions last year fell to their lowest levels since 1994, according to a new report. Carbon dioxide emissions fell by 13% in the past five years, because of new energy-saving …
