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 …
The aim of the study was to increase the understanding of the fundamental drivers of carbon emissions in the UK and to show how all carbon emissions can be attributed to the delivery of products and services to meet the needs of the end consumer. From this work, it is …
This special report does not seek to paint a comprehensive picture of the state of the oceans. It does not set out to recapitulate the many years of debate on ocean overfishing. WBGU concentrates instead on those key linkages between climate change and the oceans that are the topic of …
World power and gas markets have a natural relationship with global tradable carbon permits markets, including the U.S. Clean Air Act Amendments and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, the latter officially launched in January 2005. Electric utilities operate their power plants based in part on the price of the power …
signatures of the past, embedded deep inside polar ice, reveal that the current levels of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (co2) and methane, are the highest over the last 650,000 years. An international team of scientists studied air bubbles trapped in cylindrical pieces drilled from a depth of up …
Ground truthsWheeling-dealing for CDM benefits Close to Godhra town in Gujarat is a factory of the Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited (gfl). The mammoth factory has a unique claim to national, and global, fame: it is India's first project to be approved under the Clean Development Mechanism (cdm). It has successfully met …
This investigation pertains to the emission levels of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons from the vehicles that are plying in Madurai city. Hundred vehicles each from petrol driven vehicles such as mopeds, motorcycles (two stroke), motorcycles (four stroke), auto rickshaws (three wheelers) and cars and diesel fueled vehicles such …
• Thailand has proposed that it will ban all alcohol advertising, outraging media executives who say the ban would hurt the industry and do little to curb alcohol abuse. • At least three coal trains owned by the New Zealand government-owned solid energy corporation have been stopped from reaching Lyttelton …
the capacities of the land and oceans to act as repositories for anthropogenic carbon dioxide (co2) may be limited if we maintain or accelerate our current course of fossil fuel emissions, according to a us study. Using a new generation computer carbon-climate model, the study conducted at Berkeley University shows …
increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are turning the oceans acidic, warns the Royal Society, Britain's leading scientific organisation. The growing acidity is very likely to harm coral reefs and other marine life by the end of the century, the society said in a report prepared by a panel of …
Charles David Keeling, the climate scientist whose meticulous measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (co2) levels warned of human activity changing the composition of the atmosphere, is no more. He died of a heart attack on June 20, 2005. "Keeling's measurements of global co2 levels are the single most important environmental …
a much-hyped meeting between uk prime minister Tony Blair and us president George W Bush on June 7, 2005, in Washington, usa, once again revealed Bush's hard line on climate change. The meeting was projected by Blair as an attempt to persuade Bush to soften his stance on debt relief …
Pointless: A US federal appeals court recently heard arguments on a five-year-old battle over whether the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from motor vehicles. The results were as unclear as ever. The plaintiffs in the case comprise 12 states, one territory, …
All politicians and scientists (except George Bush and his group of climate-skeptic scientists) accept climate change is now inevitable and that it will adversely, perhaps devastatingly, impact societies and economies. Just how much damage, they do not know. Just how this devastation will occur, they are beginning to find out. …
This article explores historic carbon dioxide (CO2) emission trends from road and air transportation of the United States and 26 developing and industrializing nations. It is argued that environmental trends in the newest industrializing countries do not follow the more sequential and long-term shifts experienced by the United States. The …
The objective of this article is to study the implications of changes in land use induced by economic growth, economy-wide policies, and governance on deforestation and forest-induced atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions. Economic growth, democracy, and trade policy explain an important share of the variation in two key determinants of deforestation: …
