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 …
Power Minister Piyush Goyal reiterated India’s stand for the implementation of ‘Polluter Pays’ principle on international carbon emissions. Mr. Goyal also sought to downplay the “song and dance” around the fact that the U.S. and China have ratified the climate accords signed in Paris, saying that as the largest polluters, …
“The climate change has emerged as one of the most important political agenda in the developed countries." said ASSOCHAM. India may have succeeded in getting the December 2016 deadline for ratification of Paris Agreement on Climate Change put away at the recently concluded G 20 Summit, New Delhi would have …
The Indian government on Monday, roped in spiritual gurus to promote its target of creating 40,000MW of rooftop solar power capacity. The Union new and renewable energy Ministry is reported to be taking help from spiritual leaders to promote awareness and demonstrate the usefulness of the of green energy. According …
Britain could save 5 billion pounds ($6.64 billion) a year by 2050 if it invests now in technology to capture and store emissions underground, a government advisory body report said on Monday. CCS, which traps emissions blamed for global warming during the burning of fossil fuels and stores them underground, …
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Icelandic capital of Reykjavik is aiming to become carbon neutral by 2040 by imposing strict limits on urban sprawl and improving the efficiency of public transport, according to a plan unveiled by the city's mayor. The climate policy blueprint puts Reykjavik at the forefront …
The potential impact of global temperature change on global crop yield has recently been assessed with different methods. Here we show that grid-based and point-based simulations and statistical regressions (from historic records), without deliberate adaptation or CO2 fertilization effects, produce similar estimates of temperature impact on wheat yields at global …
An Olympic-style delivery agency could ensure the costs of implementing CCS are kept to a minimum, says the report The costs of tackling climate change can be slashed if a network of pipes is built to store waste carbon dioxide under the North Sea, a report says. The technology - …
NEW DELHI: While Indian cities are still grappling with the impacts of severe particulate matter (PM) pollution, a new report has raised the flag on ozone levels (O3) too. 'The Cost of Air Pollution', a report by the World Bank and Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) released on …
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced five new partnerships, four of which are with the Government of India, to expand Indo-US cooperation on clean energy, environment and climate change. During the US-India Joint Working Group on Combating Climate Change, USAID also announced its collaboration with the Forest …
A second China Airlines aircraft joined Taiwan’s Pacific Greenhouse Gases Measurement project, a platform for gathering climate change data from throughout the region, in July this year. (Courtesy of NCU) The second round of results from aircraft and ship-based monitoring of greenhouse gas levels above the Pacific Ocean under a …
Word of mouth from nomadic herders led Lucas Silva into Tibetan forests and grasslands. What his team found was startling: Rapid forest growth in tune with what scientists had been expecting from climatic changes triggered by rising levels of carbon dioxide. Actual scientific findings to date, however, had been turning …
"The ocean has been the only true sink for anthropogenic emissions since the industrial revolution," says MIT graduate student Sophie Chu, pictured here. "Right now, it stores about 1/4 to 1/3 of the anthropogenic emissions from the atmosphere. We're expecting at some point the storage will slow down." Credit: Zhaohui …
We present a 3.2 Myr record of stable isotopes and physical properties at IODP Site U1308 (reoccupation of DSDP Site 609) located within the ice-rafted detritus (IRD) belt of the North Atlantic. We compare the isotope and lithological proxies at Site U1308 with other North Atlantic records (e.g., sites 982, …
The U.K. government may need to delay until next year the release of a plan on how the country will meet carbon reduction targets for 2030, according to the new climate minister. In his first public comments since his appointment last month, Minister of Climate Change Nick Hurd said Tuesday …
Poland is willing to back EU ratification of an amendment to the Kyoto Protocol on carbon emissions if the European Commission guarantees financing for new, cleaner coal-fired power stations, the Prime Minister's office said. Last October Poland's president unexpectedly vetoed 2012's Doha amendment which extends the protocol until 2020, arguing …
India on Monday told the G20 grouping that it was not ready to ratify the Paris accord before 2016. "We are not quite ready yet in terms of domestic actions that are required to ratify or at least to commit to ratify within 2016," Arvind Panagariya, India's Sherpa (representative) to …
In the course of a 17-year experiment on more than 1 million plants, scientists put future global warming to a real world test — growing California flowers and grasslands with extra heat, carbon dioxide and nitrogen to mimic a not-so-distant, hotter future. The results, simulating a post-2050 world, aren't pretty. …
The Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean gave backing on Tuesday for an accord to curb carbon dioxide emissions from airlines in a widening of support to a first small developing nation vulnerable to climate change. At the weekend, China, the United States, the European Union and 16 surrounding nations …
HANGZHOU/NEW DELHI: In a significant step towards bringing the Paris climate deal into force before the end of this year, US and China+ — the world's top two emitters of greenhouse gases — on Saturday ratified the agreement which was approved by 195 countries, including India, in December last year. …
To tackle the issue of increasing carbon dioxide in the air and maintain an ecological balance, the forest department of Madhya Pradesh is planning to grow grass on open forest land. For the first time, a detailed grass and fodder management plan is expected to be included in the current …
