In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking the start of a permanent decline in fossil generation. 2024 both clarified and consolidated the shape of the global …
EY report says Conservative government has sentenced renewable energy sector to death by a thousand cuts and left investors puzzled at policy changes. The UK has dropped out of the top ten of a respected international league table on renewable energy for the first time since it began 12 years …
Brazil has seen its child mortality rate fall by 73 percent between 1990 and 2015, according to new statistics published Wednesday by the World Health Organization (WHO). According to the new report, Levels and Trends in Child Mortality 2015, the rate of death of Brazilian children under five years old …
The removal of the world's tree cover remains a concern but deforestation rates are slowing, says the UN report The world's forests face a "decisive year" as nations prepare to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals and gather for key climate talks. In a UN report on forests, senior official Jose …
Contributions to historical climate change have varied substantially among nations. These differences reflect underlying inequalities in wealth and development, and pose a fundamental challenge to the implementation of a globally equitable climate mitigation strategy. This Letter presents a new way to quantify historical inequalities among nations using carbon and climate …
The water quality at the Olympic sailing venue in Rio de Janeiro is a serious issue but will be resolved by the time the Games begin next year, Rio Organising Committee president Carlos Nuzman said on Tuesday. A scientific report carried out last month said the waters were so contaminated …
Global plans to curb carbon dioxide are well below what's needed to keep temperatures from rising above 2 degrees according to a new analysis. It is the work of researchers from the Climate Action Tracker (CAT), a consortium of research institutions. They examined the commitments already made by governments to …
Figures released this week point to an apparent rise in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon over the last year, an ominous development that one researcher attributed to an increase in cattle ranching aimed at the U.S. market. The newly lost forest, nearly 2,000 square miles, amounts to an area about …
Increasing global demand for food and the need to address climate change risk make it ever more urgent to both protect ecosystems and use land more productively and efficiently. Brazil is a key player in this context and has made significant gains in recent decades. Between 1970 and 2006, its …
Rio de Janeiro has become the first city to reach full compliance with the Compact of Mayors, a global coalition of city leaders dedicated to making their cities more resilient to climate change. The city has created an ambitious Climate Action Plan that allows measurement and monitoring of climate risks …
The 180-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing facility in Valinhos, São Paulo — now the largest such facility in the whole of Brazil — was recently inaugurated in a service put on by Globo Brazil. With the completion of the quite large PV manufacturing facility, the country’s domestic solar PV project …
Japanese solar firm Kyocera has completed the installation of 4,300 solar streetlights along Brazils new motoring artery, the Arco Metropolitano do Rio de Janeiro. More than half of the newly-built 145-km road, which connects the five main highways crossing Rio de Janeiro, will be lit by solar lights. The entire …
Different from last year's World Cup, an event which attracted widespread protests and was criticized by slow stadium construction, organizers of the 2016 Rio Olympics that start within year from now are facing new tricky issues, the water pollution. The issue that has most attracted the world's attention so far …
Police investigating suspected environmental scams swoop on state officials and businessmen in Amazon area known for woods used in furniture and decking The raids began at dawn as the sun rose over the Tapajós river and more than 100 police swooped on a dozen locations in the most sophisticated operation …
Germany and Brazil committed themselves on Thursday to a joint stance on climate change, putting the largest economies in Europe and Latin America on the same page ahead of global climate talks in Paris in December. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff focused mainly on environmental cooperation during …
A new data set of landslides that caused loss of life in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 10-year period from 2004 and 2013 inclusive has been compiled, providing new insight into the impact of landslides in this key part of the world. This data set indicates that in …
Brazil announced on Thursday that the vaccination against dengue developed by the country will be available by 2018 when all the tests are finished. "We are currently hoping for a safe vaccine against dengue to be developed fully ... At best we will have the vaccine in 2018," said Brazil's …
Rio de Janeiro can be proud of the four Olympic test events held so far in the city, the head of the Rio 2016 coordinating committee said on 12 August, as officials once again played down concerns over athletes safety in the citys polluted waterways. Recent tests commissioned by the …
RIO DE JANEIRO -- The Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, with its glistening waters, is one of this tropical city's most picturesque spots. Just don't look too closely at those waters. As Rio de Janeiro prepares to host the Summer Olympics in less than a year, concern remains that the site …
Brazil's Subsalt Polygon, an offshore area that has already yielded some of the world's largest recent oil finds, may hold enough undiscovered petroleum and gas to supply the world's current oil needs for more than five years, researchers said. The Polygon, which covers most of Brazil's Santos and Campos offshore …
Three Australian athletes fall ill but no concern over water pollution Rowing Australia say their junior team has given the 2016 Rio Olympics course the thumbs up despite athletes from other countries falling ill. The world junior championships were held as an Olympics test event last week in Rio, with …
