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 …
Scientists use a variety of approaches to estimate the Earth’s climate sensitivity – how much the planet will warm as a result of humans increasing greenhouse effect. For decades, the different methods were all in good general agreement that if we double the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, …
By 2022, Norway could realise every step in the development of a technology many see as critical to reducing global carbon emissions, carbon capture and storage (CCS), it said on Monday. Oslo said it could capture carbon dioxide from an industrial plant, transport it by ship and inject it into …
The recent survey of Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) has revealed that the ambient air quality in the city has witnessed a fall. The survey conducted last month by the Adityapur-based regional office of JSPCB shows a marginal fall in the city’s ambient air quality, due to smoke-belching vehicles …
The UK has no policies in place to meet more than half of the carbon emission cuts required by law by 2030, the government’s official advisers warned on Thursday, the same day ministers committed to the target. The advisers also warned that the UK’s Brexit vote had thrown some EU-linked …
Britain's exit dashes the European Union's leadership ambitions on efforts to slow climate change, leaving the bloc on the sidelines while others endorse the global pact it championed to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Last week, EU environment ministers jointly called for action "as soon as possible" to avoid being absent …
For combating climate change effects and adapting with them, the State Water Resources Department has submitted a funding proposal to the UNFCC Green Climate Fund. The aim of the proposal is to ensure food and climate security in the vulnerable tribal -prone areas of the State by means of groundwater …
This paper discusses how carbon pricing can facilitate a low-carbon transition, or a further net zero carbon transition, responding to the Paris Agreement. There is a strong synergy between carbon pricing and the Paris Agreement; the call for ambitious climate actions through carbon pricing by both heads of governments and …
As part of work to produce a climate and energy package for 2030, the European Commission is currently reviewing the sustainability of all uses and sources of bioenergy for the period after 2020. The European Commission will also propose a new policy on how to include the land use, land …
Can a heterotrophic organism be evolved to synthesize biomass from CO2 directly? So far, non-native carbon fixation in which biomass precursors are synthesized solely from CO2 has remained an elusive grand challenge. Here, we demonstrate how a combination of rational metabolic rewiring, recombinant expression, and laboratory evolution has led to …
Tata Power Solar on Wednesday commissioned a 100 kilowatt (kW) rooftop solar plant at Toyota Kirloskar Auto Parts Ltd. at Bidadi on the city's outskirts, the solar firm said on Wednesday. "The rooftop plant was installed in a record 21 days on the top of the administrative building of the …
It was a unique and historic moment, one of forward-looking international collaboration and unity that now poses a stark contrast to the Brexit crisis wracking Europe. On Dec. 12 of last year, 195 nations assembled in Paris agreed to a climate agreement that would make the world more than the …
A world-leading climate change target up to the early 2030s is set to be confirmed by the British government. Ministers are expected to announce that the UK will cut carbon emissions by 57% by 2032, from 1990 levels. The announcement will help reassure the investors needed to overhaul the UK's …
Germany has abandoned plans to set out a timetable to exit coal-fired power production and scrapped C02 emissions reduction goals for individual sectors, according to the latest draft of an environment ministry document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. An earlier version of the draft document that was leaked in May …
What if the way things smell started to change? What if food inexplicably lost its aroma and your house no longer had its familiar homely scent? It would certainly be off-putting, but you’d probably manage. However, many animals depend on their sense of smell much more than we do, so …
JAKARTA – Forest fires that blanketed Southeast Asia in thick haze last year released the greatest amount of climate-changing carbon since the record blazes in 1997, producing emissions higher than in the whole of the European Union, scientists said on Tuesday. Singapore, Malaysia and northern Indonesia choked under a layer …
Paris climate summit put planet on course for 'catastrophic' warming despite being seen as success, study finds While countries agreed to try to limit global warming to a rise of 1.5C, the actions they actually promised could see temperatures go up by twice that amount Emissions targets set by world …
A heating system change in 8.5 million households per year in Europe can contribute to a significant 18.5% drop in emissions in the upcoming fifteen years. To help the association of the European Heating Industry quantify the possible contribution from heating in view of EU 2030 targets, Ecofys has performed …
This is the Committee’s eighth annual report detailing the UK’s progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting carbon budgets. The Progress Report shows that UK emissions have fallen rapidly in the power sector, but that progress has stalled in other sectors, such as heating in buildings, transport, industry and …
Earlier this month, NASA scientists provided a visualization of a startling climate change trend — the Earth is getting greener, as viewed from space, especially in its rapidly warming northern regions. And this is presumably occurring as more carbon dioxide in the air, along with warmer temperatures and longer growing …
JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Forest fires that blanketed Southeast Asia in thick haze last year released the greatest amount of climate-changing carbon since record blazes in 1997, producing emissions higher than in the whole of the European Union, scientists said on Tuesday. Singapore, Malaysia and northern Indonesia choked under …
