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 …
Australian Conservation Foundation report shows a 3.2% jump in emissions by the country’s biggest polluters despite Coalition’s climate target claims. Australia’s biggest climate polluters increased their emissions in the year to July 2015, according to the latest data from Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator. Some of those companies have themselves called …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Carbon Emission, 01/03/2016. The goal of reducing the emissions intensity of GDP by 33 to 35 percent by 2030 from 2005 level as included in the Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) pertains to the period 2021-2030. The INDC target will be achieved by implementing …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Study on Air Pollution, 01/03/2016. The study conducted by Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore namely “GHG Footprint of Major Cities in India”, accounted the amount of three important greenhouses gases namely carbon dioxide (CO2), methane(CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) for seven major Indian …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Emission of Methane, 01/03/2016. As per India’s first Biennial Update Report (BUR) submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on 22nd January 2016, methane emissions in 2010 was 19.776 million tonnes which is around 22.03 % of the total Green …
This study has calculated the additional profits that sectors and companies have made from the EU ETS from 2008 to 2014, distinguishing between three types of profits: Profits from over allocation of free emission allowances. In many sectors/countries, free allowances have been granted in excess of verified emissions, allowing industries …
Carbon taxes have been frequently advocated as a cost-effective instrument for reducing emissions. However, in the practice of environmental policies, only few countries have implemented taxes based on the carbon content of the energy products. Current circumstances of climate science may permit a reconsideration of direction for existing policy efforts …
A 100-metre high wind turbine is set to start generating power at the headquarters of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, powering almost 500 homes. Construction of the turbine has been completed at the RSPB’s Lodge headquarters near Sandy, Bedfordshire, by energy company Ecotricity. The turbine, which will …
Apart from a few pristine summer days last year when PM2.5 levels in Shanghai fell below 25, our city's air quality tends not to be very breathable. This past winter, for example, saw frequent AQI (Air Quality Index) levels hitting over 300 along with multiple Orange Alerts advising residents to …
Australia’s biggest climate polluters increased their emissions in the year to July 2015, according to the latest data from Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator. Some of those companies have themselves called for stronger government policy to curb emissions, including calls from AGL for the government to mandate that the oldest or …
Canada has continued to harvest its vast natural resources and witnessed a shale revolution alongside rising oil sands production and investment in the energy sector over the past five years. The medium-term outlook for gas/oil production and exports, however, is challenging amid uncertainties around pipeline developments and an era of …
All European Union nations except for France and Italy have replied to the European Commission's request for information from member states in connection with Volkswagen's emissions scandal, an EU source said on Tuesday. The European Commission, the EU executive, has asked all 28 EU countries to investigate breaches of vehicle …
Natural gas only has a stopgap role in moving Britain to low-carbon energy until 2020 and will then be limited without carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, a UK Energy Research Centre report said on Tuesday. Britain has set an ambitious target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent …
The window of opportunity for humanity to cap global warming by slashing greenhouse gases is closing faster than previously thought, according to a study released on Tuesday. Earlier estimates of our "carbon budget" - the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide we can still put into the atmosphere without warming Earth …
Slashing beef intake by 50% can help meet climate target of keeping temperature rise within 2C limit, according to a studyReuters Reducing beef consumption by almost half can help the planet from warming up, suggests a new study by Swedish climate scientists. The study highlights how food-related green house gas …
The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is founded on reef-building corals. Corals build their exoskeleton with aragonite, but ocean acidification is lowering the aragonite saturation state of seawater (Ωa). The downscaling of ocean acidification projections from global to GBR scales requires the set of regional drivers controlling Ωa to be resolved. …
The European Commission's Joint Research Center recently conducted a study that examined records of man-made carbon dioxide and methane emissions from the last 150 years, and confirmed that these emissions have led to global warming in the past century. Europe, North America, China, Siberia, Africa's Sahel zone and Alaska show …
Greenpeace France warns that tropical forests could be lost to a palm oil bonanza that has already razed millions of hectares of south-east Asia Africa’s tropical forests are threatened by a palm oil bonanza that has already razed millions of old-growth hectares in south-east Asia, Greenpeace France warned on Tuesday. …
The toolkit contains a list of practical climate friendly initiatives that can be adopted by individuals, educational institutions, and workplaces with detailed calculations of annual CO2 emissions reductions and cost savings from implementing these simple actions. Emission factors used in this toolkit represent the weight of greenhouse gases, converted to …
Trading volumes on China’s seven emissions exchanges increased by 86.5% last year, but the financial value of the transactions rose by just 50% due to falling prices, an annual report on China’s carbon markets said. A total 24.5 million allowances worth 656 million yuan ($100 million) changed hands via exchanges …
Recent research has shown evidence of a linear climate response to cumulative CO2 emissions, which implies that the source, timing, and amount of emissions does not significantly influence the climate response per unit emission. Furthermore, these analyses have generally assumed that the climate response to land-use CO2 emissions is equivalent …
