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 …
European Union governments will probably reduce emissions outside the bloc’s carbon market by 8.8 per cent more than required under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, according to projections published today on an EU website. The oversupply of reductions among the 15 older members of the bloc will amount to 1.03 billion …
Biofuels made from algae, promoted by President Barack Obama as a possible way to help wean Americans off foreign oil, cannot be made now on a large scale without using unsustainable amounts of energy, water and fertiliser, the US National Research Council reported on Wednesday. "Faced with today's technology, to …
When a chartered fishing boat strewed 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the ocean off western Canada last July, the goal was to supercharge the marine ecosystem. The iron was meant to fertilize plankton, boost salmon populations and sequester carbon. Whether the ocean responded as hoped is not clear, but …
Climate change is widely recognized as a significant man-made global environmental change and is also treated as a threat. The impact of high temperature, erratic precipitation, extreme weather events and rise in sea level is felt at local, regional and global levels. The importance of forested areas in carbon sequestration …
Rising temperatures and high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are causing rice paddies to release more of the potent greenhouse gas methane, a new research has claimed. Researchers from the Trinity College Dublin, Northern Arizona University and University of California in Davis gathered all published research to date …
With the nation's oil and gas plants firing at full capacity, government officials say there is little chance Japan will honor its pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions significantly over the next decade, a startling retreat for the country that once spearheaded an international agreement on climate change. The earlier, …
The Ministry of Transport is considering piloting carbon trading or a carbon tax in the domestic shipping business, the Economic Information Daily reported on Monday. The ministry has researched different market measures to cut carbon emission in China's shipping business, and either carbon trading or a carbon tax may be …
Increased atmospheric CO2 and rising temperatures are expected to affect rice yields and greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions from rice paddies. This is important, because rice cultivation is one of the largest human-induced sources of the potent GHG methane (CH4) and rice is the world’s second-most produced staple crop.
BARMER/JAIPUR: After oil, the deserts of Barmer are poised to produce methane gas. For the first time in the country, methane gas will be extracted from the coals fields of Barmer through the 'microbial coal conversion' technology, developed in the laboratories of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (BITM). The Rajasthan …
BARC’s Nisargruna biogas technology can produce 25-30 kg of methane and 50-60 kg of organic manure from onetonne of biowaste A staggering amount of waste is generated every day in every town and city, and the local bodies are grappling with logistics for its disposal. The problem arises as the …
To make Indian skies more environment friendly, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has for the first time come up with a detailed aviation carbon footprint report. The report states that Indian and foreign airlines in India account for less than one per cent of the country’s total carbon dioxide …
South Korea has doubled a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by local industrial and power sectors in 2013 to enhance competitiveness prior to a new cap-and-trade scheme starting in 2015, the economy ministry said on Monday. Asia's fourth-largest economy aims to cut 17.2 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent …
Researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) and Purdue University have announced their new software system which enables the three-dimensional visualization of greenhouse gas emissions throughout urban landscapes. It notes where, when, and how carbon emissions are occurring. The software, named "Hestia" after the greek goddess of the home, is also …
European carbon edged up more than 1 percent on Thursday after a sale for nearly half of the 5 million permits expected by the market this week was postponed, spurring utilities to buy allowances. Front-year EU Allowance futures added 8 cents to 7.80 by 1541 GMT on light volume of …
Extra funding for climate change mitigation and forestry programmes also part of oil-rich nation's radical programme Norway is to double carbon tax on its North Sea oil industry and set up a £1bn fund to help combat the damaging impacts of climate change in the developing world. In one of …
GUWAHATI, Oct 10 – The Assam Public Works Roads Department (PWRD) today launched a ‘Green Roads Mission’ for the State in association with Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi, and Bitchem Asphalt Technologies Limited. The mission was formally launched by PWD Minister Ajanta Neog in presence senior officials from the …
London: Scientists claim to have developed a new software that can accurately measure greenhouse gas emissions down to individual buildings and streets. The system developed by US researchers could help identify the most effective places to cut emissions as it combines information from public databases with traffic simulations and energy …
Climate projections for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are made using the newly developed representative concentration pathways (RCPs) under the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project 5 (CMIP5). This article provides multi-model and multi-scenario temperature and precipitation projections for India for the period 1860–2099 based …
Adopting sequential extraction procedures, Ba, Cu, Mn, Ni, V and Zn concentrations were determined in the moderately reducible, organically bound, carbonateassociated and adsorbable fractions within a sediment core collected from the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean. The elemental abundances were studied with reference to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), …
New Delhi: Civil aviation minister Ajit Singh on Monday said that India is strongly opposed to any kind of sustainable measures that would restrict growth of India’s aviation industry, including the carbon taxation proposed by European Union states. Speaking at a directorate general of civil aviation international conference in Delhi, …
