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 …
PUNE: Cold nights or cold days in India may become a rarity by the end of the 21st century. A recent report of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) on climate change over India has revealed that there will be virtually no cold nights or cold days over India …
New images have been released of wildfires that continue to burn close to the Greenland ice sheet, on the country's west coast. Fires are rare on an island where 80% of the land is covered by ice up to 3km thick in places. However, satellites have observed smoke and flames …
The Arctic is warming faster than any other part of the world, and its ecosystems are changing quickly, with shifts in the timing of insect hatches, plant growth and more. Those changes are impacting migratory species that move between the Arctic, the tropics and temperate zones. One such species is …
Pollution from factories is pumping aerosols into the air. Hyderabad: Have the clouds been looking brighter than usual? No thanks to pollution. Scientists attribute this phenomena to the increasing amount of polluting particles in the air. For years, scientists have been observing changes in the clouds due to climate change …
Potent, climate-warming gases are being emitted into the atmosphere but are not being recorded in official inventories, a BBC investigation has found. Air monitors in Switzerland have detected large quantities of one gas coming from a location in Italy. However, the Italian submission to the UN records just a tiny …
With mega-dams planned globally, especially in the Amazon and Mekong, the Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF), an NGO, has developed a new free tool for evaluating a planned dam’s economic viability, greenhouse gas emissions and more. The HydroCalculator estimates the net economic value of a proposed dam, with and without the …
According to a climate change impact assessment for the proposed Thabametsi coal-fired power station, its emissions could be 60% higher than that of Medupi and Kusile. Last week, Earthlife Africa Johannesburg (ELA), in collaboration with the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER), submitted comments on Thabametsi’s climate change impact assessment, IT-Online …
Historical changes in soil carbon associated with land-use change (LUC) result mainly from the changes in the quantity of litter inputs to the soil and the turnover of carbon in soils. We use a factor separation technique to assess how the input-driven and turnover-driven controls, as well as their synergies, …
NEW DELHI: Coal will continue to have a prime place in India's total energy mix for the next many years but an analysis of official data shows that the country's coal boom may have been over a couple of years ago, much earlier than expected. Over the past two years, …
Rising carbon dioxide levels from global warming will drastically reduce the amount of protein in staple crops like rice and wheat, leaving vulnerable populations at risk of growth stunting and early death, experts warned onWednesday. Researchers say they still don't understand how or why carbon dioxide emissions sap protein and …
Extreme heatwaves that kill even healthy people within hours will strike parts of the Indian subcontinent unless global carbon emissions are cut sharply and soon, according to new research. Even outside of these hotspots, three-quarters of the 1.7bn population – particularly those farming in the Ganges and Indus valleys – …
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Kenya will roll out new policy and regulatory incentives to promote uptake of renewable energy in the manufacturing sector, officials said at a forum in Nairobi on Thursday. Principal Secretary in the ministry of energy, Engineer John Njoroge said that greater uptake of cleaner energy sources by …
Researchers find that economic, emissions and population trends point to very small chance Earth will avoid warming more than 2C by century’s end There is only a 5% chance that the Earth will avoid warming by at least 2C come the end of the century, according to new research that …
This report highlights the most effective carbon-reducing policies and practices from the top 22 greenhouse gas emitting countries. The Report is inspirational, heartening, and contains useful information that could help your state, region, or country reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions and meet its Paris Agreement Pledge.
Energy-related emissions represent two-thirds of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Immediate action is needed to start putting the world on a path to net-zero emissions, as per the Paris Agreement. Renewable energy and energy efficiency will work in synergy to drive global energy decarbonisation. When pursued together, they result in higher …
One of Kenya’s iconic landscapes - Chyulu Hills - will soon reap big from the sale of two million carbon credits. Located between Amboseli and Tsavo national parks, Chyulu Hills is an integral part of Kenya’s largest conservation landscape that has been severely degraded by overgrazing, drought, deforestation and forest …
Scientists are sucking carbon dioxide from the air with giant fans and preparing to release chemicals from a balloon to dim the sun's rays as part of a climate engineering push to cool the planet. Backers say the risky, often expensive projects are urgently needed to find ways of meeting …
VIJAYAWADA: According to an internal assessment by the Andhra Pradesh government, there has been a sharp rise in the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from 54 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2005-06 to 103 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2013-14. This is a compound annual growth (CAGR) of 8.4%. …
Banning diesel cars in European cities could hamper automakers' ability to invest in zero-emission vehicles, the European Union's commissioner for industry has warned the bloc's transport ministers. In a letter seen by Reuters, Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska said there would be no benefit in a collapse of the market for diesel …
Based on carbon dioxide concentrations at a location and wind speed, scientists trace particles back to their sources to identify whether the country is an emitter or a carbon sink, say Eurasian region is a net carbon sink. As part of the global fight against climate change, all countries are …
