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 …
It has been revealed that 65 heads of states and governments will be attending the most important environmental summit held in December this year in Copenhagen, Denmark. The organizers of the climate summit announced this week that leaders of most of the world
While species losses mount worldwide, conservationists in Brazil have made great strides towards saving the golden lion tamarin and its forest habitat from destruction.
No matter how many times you hear them, there are some statistics that just bowl you over. The one that always stuns me is this: Imagine if you took all the cars, trucks, planes, trains and ships in the world and added up their exhaust every year. The amount of …
Building on an existing pledge to slash deforestation rates in the Amazon, Brazil is considering a commitment to substantially reduce cumulative greenhouse-gas emissions over the next decade.
This latest report by 2030 Water Resources Group, led by IFC & McKinsey warns that governments must address booming water demand or face grave human and environmental. Says that that in 20 years, water demand will be 40% higher than it is today, and more than 50% higher in the …
If the next climate treaty tackles deforestation, tropical nations will need to monitor the biomass of their forests. One ecologist has worked out a way to do that from the sky, finds Jeff Tollefson.
The United Nations climate treaty may soon include a mechanism for compensating tropical nations that succeed in reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, source of nearly one fifth of global carbon emissions. We review the potential for this mechanism [reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD)] to provoke …
As world leaders struggle to hash out a new global climate deal by December, they face a hurdle perhaps more formidable than getting big polluters like the United States and China to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: how to pay for the new accord. This is the first article in a …
Use of sugar cane-based ethanol as a substitute for gasoline is among the cheapest and easiest ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a Brazilian study published on Wednesday. Cane ethanol provides about eight times the energy used to produce it and adoption of new cane plant varieties and …
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (GSK) recently cut a deal with the Brazilian government, which allows it to supply a 10-valent vaccine against childhood pneumonia and other life-threatening infections for a decade at a fixed price in a reflection of the growing importance of vaccines and emerging markets to Big Pharma. The contract, …
AMERICA wants one. So do Australia, Brazil, Britain, China, Germany, Italy and Japan, to name a few. Even Malta is building one. Big utilities, such as Electricit
THE logic in favour of purchases of vaccine firms seems irrefutable. The world is in the grip of a swine-flu pandemic, which will probably infect 40% or more of the human race. Vaccines are likely to be in demand for some time. And the vaccine business has high barriers to …
In those South American countries where forest plantations are important or have potential for development, investment in them is one option for creating jobs.
Brazil, China and India have seen falling poverty in their reform periods, but to varying degrees and for different reasons. History left China with favorable initial conditions for rapid poverty reduction through market-led economic growth; at the outset of the reform process there were ample distortions to remove and relatively …
WILDLIFE conservationists use the crite - rion of species diversity to identify areas that must be protected. Ecologists and zoologists from the Universidade Federal de Goi
