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 …
US researchers have found that blowing tiny bubbles through sea water could help protect coral reefs and oyster farms from oceans, which have increasingly turned acidic through human activities. The idea is that tiny bubbles will help cleanse the world's oceans of carbon dioxide (CO2) by drawing the gas out …
Some fortnights ago, I had discussed the issue of poverty and environment. I had then said that the question today is not whether the poor are responsible for environmental degradation but whether environmental management works if it does not address inequality and poverty. Why? Take air pollution in our cities. …
Fire is a common perturbation in the grassland ecosystems throughout the world. Effect of fire on carbon stock, rate of C-accumulation and soil CO2 flux have been studied in Imperata cylindrica–Sporobolus indicus-dominated grassland community of Manipur, Northeast India. Original Source
This report aims to help Bhutan think through various technical and policy issues of introducing electric vehicles in its own context. It analyses a variety of factors that will impact adoption of electric vehicles from technical, market and financial feasibility to consumer awareness and stakeholders’ capacity. It also addresses several …
The World Bank has approved a $500 million loan to China to support financing of projects to help control air pollution in and around Beijing. The money is part of a broader program expected to reach $1.4 billion for "green financing" over the next six years that includes another half …
Electric buses generate 27 percent more revenue and 82 percent more profits than diesel buses per day, according to an Indian Institute of Science (IISc) study evaluating electric vehicles for urban transport. The findings have special significance because primary mass transit in Indian cities is provided by 150,000 diesel buses, …
India will get $421 million from an American financial institution for its solar and broadband projects to enable it to become a low carbon economy and expand the internet infrastructure. US government's development finance institution, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), approved $250 million last week in senior debt financing to …
“Stunning,” “wow,” “shocker,” “bombshell,” “astronomical,” “insane,” “unprecedented”– these are some of the words climate scientists have used to describe the record-shattering global surface temperatures in February 2016. It’s difficult to see any ‘pause’ or slowdown in the global warming over the past 50 years. To put the current temperatures into …
The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) and the new international climate treaty could put 2015 into the history books as a defining year for setting human development on a more sustainable pathway. The global climate policy and SDG agendas are highly interconnected: the way that the climate problem is …
Three months after India committed to an ambitious set of targets under the global climate change Paris agreement the government is working in fits and starts to put the architecture, policy and regulations in place to achieve what it promised to the global community. India promised a 30-35 per cent …
The December 2015 Paris climate conference was another — and perhaps final — chapter in decades of climate policy-making failure. It set the world on course for more than 3°C of warming and all but precludes a less-than-2°C future without radical climate interventions. Commentators say “deadly flaws” in the Paris …
Developed countries will provide financial support to developing nations for technology development and transfer to reduce carbon emissions under the new agreement reached at the Paris Climate Change summit, the Rajya Sabha was informed today. "Under the Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015, it has been agreed that developed countries …
The Centre on Monday said that mitigation alone cannot ensure the curbing of green house gas emissions and that a “balanced” approach is required to achieve the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). The government also stressed on educating the youth to adopt a climate-friendly lifestyle to realise key climate change …
‘India has taken measures to discourage use of fossil fuels to reduce carbon footprint’ Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday claimed that in the 21 months of the NDA government at the Centre his Ministry has given environmental clearances to 943 projects, unlocking investments of up to about Rs …
The East Antarctic ice sheet is a 'sleeping giant' and the world is on track for massive sea level rises resulting from its melting due to the rising carbon dioxide levels, scientists warn. Research showed that if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continue increasing as predicted, the giant East …
The levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere are not only higher than ever, they're rising at a faster rate than ever before.Reuters An "explosive" new level of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere in 2015 shattered all previous records, report scientists from the the US National Oceanic and …
Nagpur: The Ultratech Sangharsh Action Committee has urged the state government not to grant 'consent to operate' to the cement major Ultratech, which is setting up a cement plant in Ashti-Navegaon in Tarsa, 35km from here. Ultratech is setting up a 2.0 MTPA cement grinding unit and 12MW captive power …
The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased at a record pace last year, US government scientists reported, raising new concern about one of the top greenhouse gases and the effects of global warming. The measurement came from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. …
He also commented that India, China are more than making up in carbon emissions for whatever US could possibly cut Any steps by the US towards addressing the challenge posed by climate change is unlikely to have an impact as India and China would still be continuing at historic levels, …
A new study based on new modeling has shown that the average global temperature could rise by 1.5 degrees as early as 2020. According to a new study published by researchers from the University of Queensland and Griffith University in Australia, global warming could occur much more quickly than previously …
