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 …
ExxonMobil also projected the country's GDP to rise from $2 trillion in 2014 to $9 trillion in 2040 India's energy demand is likely to almost double in next 25 years as the economy is estimated to expand to $9 trillion by 2040, US oil major ExxonMobil said in its Energy …
Hon. Pa Ousman Jarju, the Minister of Environment, Climate Change, Forestry, Water and Wildlife has stated that The Gambia has tasked itself to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emission from key sectors to economy by 44.4% by 2025 and 45.4% by 2030 with domestic and international support. He lamented that human-induced …
Road transport is an important source of both greenhouse gases and air pollutants. Despite improvements in vehicle efficiencies over past decades, today the sector is responsible for almost one fifth of Europe's greenhouse gas emissions. Emissions from vehicles also lead to high concentrations of air pollutants above EU standards in …
To reach the level of investment in new renewable power generation needed to avert dangerous climate change, $12.1 trillion of investment will be needed over the next 25 years, which is $5.2 trillion above business-as-usual projections, a new report by Ceres and Bloomberg New Energy Finance concludes. Clean energy investment …
Following the historic international deal agreed at the UN climate conference, COP21, and the news from Davos that climate change is the world’s most impactful risk, major companies such as Dell, Unilever and Walmart are establishing the extent to which impending climate regulation will impact their business. However, half their …
Carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation are a major cause of anthropogenic climate change. The deployment of wind and solar power reduces these emissions, but is subject to the variability of the weather. In the present study, we calculate the cost-optimized configuration of variable electrical power generators using weather data …
CO2 dominates the total GHG emissions and the energy sector comprising of electricity production, manufacturing industries, transport sector and fugitive emissions generates the maximum CO2 in the country. The energy sector in India is responsible for 71% of country's total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG's), a report from India to the …
Global energy demand will increase 25 percent between 2014 and 2040, driven by population growth and economic expansion, ExxonMobil said in the 2016 edition of The Outlook for Energy. At the same time, energy efficiency gains and increased use of renewable energy sources and lower carbon fuels, such as natural …
Indian Industry, which will play an important role in meeting the goals set by India's INDCs, will need to meet obligations even as they capitalise on new business opportunities. Mr Ashok Lavasa, Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India, said, it is equally a question …
In a big victory for the Obama administration, a U.S. federal court on Thursday rejected a bid by 27 states to block its Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of its strategy to combat climate change by reducing carbon emissions from power plants. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of …
Data-based projections suggest that the natural CO2 cycle could be amplified by up to ten times by 2100 in some oceanic regions if atmospheric CO2 concentrations continue to increase, which could detrimentally affect major fisheries.
As long as global CO2 emissions continue to increase annually, long-term committed Earth system changes grow much faster than current observations. A novel metric linking this future growth to policy decisions today is the mitigation delay sensitivity (MDS), but MDS estimates for Earth system variables other than peak temperature (ΔT …
Global surface warming projections have been empirically connected to carbon emissions via a climate index defined as the transient climate response to emissions (TCRE), revealing that surface warming is nearly proportional to carbon emissions. Here, we provide a theoretical framework to understand the TCRE including the effects of all radiative …
UNSW's Ben McNeil and Tristan Sasse explain how a rise in the oceans' CO2 levels could have huge implications for global fisheries and marine ecosystems. Ocean fish around the world risk becoming lost at sea if carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater continue to rise on current trajectories, a study from …
Hot on the heels of a historic climate deal in Paris the Carbon Tracker Initiative and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board, two non-profits who seek to promote transparency in relation to climate risk, will in Davos launch proposals for risk reporting by fossil fuel companies. The Paris accord confirmed the …
New Delhi: While car owners grumpily awaited their alternate day on Delhi roads during the recent 15-day driving experiment, there was one group that grinned happily every day. They were owners of cars that had a bright sticker saying 'CNG' stuck on their windshields. Cars running on compressed natural gas, …
Researchers reconstruct the evolution of ocean acidification in the California Current System (CalCS) from 1979 through 2012 using hindcast simulations with an eddy-resolving ocean biogeochemical model forced with observation-based variations of wind and fluxes of heat and freshwater. Researchers find that domain-wide pH and ${{\rm{\Omega }}}_{\mathrm{arag}}$ in the top 60 …
In the Paris Summit (United States Conference on Climate Change), held during December 2015, India has strongly advocated climate justice and adhered to the principles of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR) on the issue of climate change actions. Intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) for the period 2021-30 were …
Global warming is likely to disrupt a natural cycle of ice ages and delay the onset of the next one until about 1,00,000 years from now, scientists said on Wednesday. In the past million years, the world has had about 10 ice ages before swinging back to warmer conditions. In …
Gurgaon: Air pollution is taking a toll on your pet's health too. Vets in the city have noted an increase in the number of pets coming to them with respiratory and other diseases linked to increase in particulate matter in the air. Six-year-old Glossy Dhingra, a Labrador, developed asthma this …
