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 …
This paper aims to analyse the impact of two post-Kyoto climate policy regimes on GDP growth, CO2 emissions, and welfare in India. Both regimes aim to limit the long-term average global temperature increase below 2°C. The first policy regime is a global carbon tax. The second policy regime is based …
Climate change presents the greatest challenge ever faced by our domestic and international institutions, and great deal of the difficulty lies in the science of the issue. Because human influence on global climate differs in important ways from other environmental threats these peculiarities set the context for discussion of what …
EMBARQ’s Sustainable Urban Transportation Fuels and Vehicles (SUTFV) program aims to take an unbiased approach to analyzing the impacts of different fuels and technologies for bus transit fleets. The program jointly addresses lifecycle costs and emissions of transit buses and is targeted to provide context-specific recommendations for cities in India, …
The overall emissions generated from the city of Pune in the year 2010-11 were 4,661,064.20 tonnes of CO2e. This translates to about 1.46 tonnes of CO2e per capita in the same year reveals this first-ever carbon footprint report for the city. Pune is one of the first cities in India …
Equity has been central to the multilateral negotiations on climate change mitigation and adaptation between the South and the North. The dispute is not with the science that establishes the need to keep global temperature rise below 2°C, measured from pre-industrial levels, as the threshold that will leash in climate …
Montreal Protocol, the multilateral treaty to protect the ozone layer, has been a successful environmental agreement. But an impasse over restricting the use of extremely potent greenhouse gases marred the Protocol’s 25th anniversary celebrations on September 16, 2012. These gases, called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), emerged as the coolant of choice after …
Black carbon is a component of soot, released during combustion, particularly incomplete combustion of fossil fuels or biomass. It is released when carbon is only partially combusted. The main sources of black carbon emissions are burning of biomass in inefficient cooking stoves, diesel emissions from the transport sector and from …
London: Indian cities, New Delhi and Mumbai, are among the places that are most prone to multiple environmental risks, says a report. Among other cities, Guwahati and Bareilly have also been classified as places facing such risks, according to the report prepared by private firm Atkins along with University College …
Even though countries are burning unprecedented amounts of oil and gas, the estimates of how much is left continue to grow, thanks to high prices and new technologies that have enabled companies to find and extract new resources. A decade ago, it was the tar sands of Canada and Venezuela. …
Pressing on the key issue at the 12-day annual parley, poorer countries called on the EU to shore up the Kyoto Protocol. Climate talks got down to the nitty-gritty in Doha on Tuesday as developing countries and the European Union (EU) staked out rival positions on the fate of the …
Melting permafrost is emerging as a new factor in climate change, allowing long-frozen carbon to be released into the air and accelerating global warming, the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Tuesday (UNEP). In a report issued as the annual round of U.N. climate talks entered their second day, UNEP …
A new report ‘Future Proofing Cities’ has been published by Atkins in a unique partnership with the Department for International Development (DFID) and University College London (UCL). This report assesses the risks to cities from climate hazards, resource scarcities, and damage to ecosystems and how they can act now to …
New Delhi and Mumbai are amongst the cities that are most prone to multiple environmental risks warns this new analysis by Atkins. Covering 129 cities, it assesses the risks to cities from climate hazards and resource scarcities and how they can act now to future proof themselves. A report ‘Future …
With a strong tradition of recycling and incinerating, it now has too many waste-to-energy incinerators and not enough rubbish to meet demand. It has become Europe's biggest importer of trash from other countries, currently mainly from Norway. But as the European Union seeks to reduce the dumping of 150 million …
German car manufacturers are seeking to widen a loophole in EU regulations that would allow them to produce more cars with carbon emissions above a 2020 EU target. EU car manufacturers are divided over how a 2020 EU target to cut carbon emissions to an average of 95 grams per …
Qatar has defended its right to host U.N. talks on slowing global warming even though its greenhouse gas output per capita is the highest in the world and it has made no pledge to cut it. Qataris produce almost three times as many carbon emissions on average than Americans and …
The UNEP “Policy Implications of Warming Permafrost” report describes the current and potential future status of permafrost and makes policy recommendations to address the impacts of permafrost degradation in a warming climate. Climate projections in the fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) do not account …
Doha: The Indian negotiating team in Doha will not be looking to score any big victories at the climate negotiations starting on Monday but to ensure that it does not lose ground. Unlike the previous annual UN climate talks, in Qatar, environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan is tasked to defend the …
It had been a nervous few days. So the California Air Resources Board (CARB), which is running the state’s new cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse-gas emissions, can be forgiven for celebrating its first big test in eccentric fashion. Barely an hour after details of the first auction of emissions permits were …
