The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions. It explains developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, assessing the impact of national climate pledges in relation to long-term emissions goals. An emissions gap persists, …
MIAMI – Sea levels are rising around the world, and the latest satellite data suggest 3 feet (1 meter) or more is unavoidable in the next 100 to 200 years, NASA scientists said Wednesday. Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting faster than ever, and oceans are warming and …
The private sector could cut more than five hundred megatons of greenhouse gas emissions in the next five years, simply by scaling up existing green initiatives, according to a new report. Researchers from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and energy consultancy Ecofys, analysed five current initiatives, …
Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) is looking for $ 310,000 (approx.Rwf217 million) to prepare, within 18 months, the National Appropriate Mitigations Actions (NAMA) project, dubbed "Sustainable Fertilisers Production and Use". The project, presented during a continental workshop on NAMAs in Kigali on Monday, was submitted to Food and Agriculture Organisation …
China’s carbon emissions from fossil fuels and cement production may have been overestimated by as much as 14%, according to a new analysis by scientific researchers. The report, published in the journal Nature, estimates that in 2013, China’s CO2 emissions totalled 2.49 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon, 14% less than previously …
A senior US government official has decried a “disturbing” rejection of climate science by Australian politicians. Virginia Burkett, chief scientist for climate and land-use change at the US Geological Survey, said the denial of climate science by Australian decision-makers was a surprise to her. “I thought it was just a …
Following is a table showing that developed nations' plans for combating climate change fall well short of cuts outlined by scientists to avert the worst of global warming. Current pledges by developed nations will cut emissions to 9.0 billion tonnes, a fall of 26 percent from 12.2 billion in 2010. …
NEW DELHI: Mean temperature in India has increased by nearly 0.6 degree Celsius over the last 110 years in line with rising temperature across the globe, said the government in Parliament while informing the Lok Sabha that the heat wave phenomena this year were "abnormally" high which had led to …
NOTHING in India is as terrifying as the thought that the monsoon might not come. Robert Kaplan, in his book “Monsoon”, claims global warming is causing a more erratic monsoon, which “could spell disaster”. Around half of India’s population, some 600m people, still depend on farming, and nearly two-thirds of …
Retired Nasa scientist James Hansen who first rang the climate alarm bell in 1988, is now back with a study that points to major sea level rise in the next 50 years owing to speeding up of glacier melt. In what Hansen says is his most important paper on climate …
A bombshell climate study due out this week warns that sea levels may rise a catastrophic 10 feet (3 meters) by the end of this century, rather than the currently predicted 3 feet (.9 meters). But mainstream climate scientists say the report appears speculative and is not in sync with …
PARIS: Nearly 2,000 climate scientists gathered in Paris on Tuesday, just five months before the deadline for a historic carbon-curbing pact, to remind politicians it is not too late to limit dangerous planet warming. "The world is at a critical crossroads," UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said in a message read …
A new paper just published in Science summarizes the projected impacts of climate change on the world’s oceans, and consequently on humans and our economy. The study concludes that global warming beyond the international limit of 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures would pose serious threats to marine ecosystems and their millions …
NEW DELHI: The BASIC nations (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) may be presenting themselves as a united bloc, but the group appears to be gradually losing its sting on the climate change front. Countries of the group are moving towards the USdriven bilateral deal to fight climate change even …
That's the subject of intense research around the world, as scientists try to predict how increasing levels of greenhouse gases – and the additional heat they trap from the sun – will alter the climate of different regions. For most regions of Australia, the climate will become warmer and drier, …
Washington: Rapid warming of the Indian Ocean in the past century has led to a significant decrease in summer Monsoon rainfall over the central-east and northern regions of India, a new study led by an Indian scientist said on Tuesday. An international team of researchers led by Dr Roxy Mathew …
Scientists issued a dire warning Tuesday to UN climate negotiators in Bonn of a vicious global warming cycle that will be unlocked with the thawing of carbon-bearing permafrost. There may be 1,500 billion tonnes of carbon locked away in permafrost -- perennially frozen ground covering about a quarter of exposed …
Group of Seven leaders agreed on Monday to wean their economies off carbon fuels and supported a global goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but they stopped short of agreeing their own immediate binding targets. In a communique issued after their two-day summit in Bavaria, the G7 leaders said they …
Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan and France burned more coal between 2009 and 2013 and demanded poor countries slash their carbon emissions Five of the world’s seven richest countries have increased their coal use in the last five years despite demanding that poor countries slash their carbon emissions to avoid catastrophic …
US researchers say new evidence casts doubt on the idea that global warming has "slowed" in recent years. A US government laboratory says the much talked about "pause" is an illusion caused by inaccurate data. Updated observations show temperatures did not plateau, say National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) scientists. …
A much discussed "slow down" in global warming did not actually happen and the heating up of the planet has continued apace since the turn of the century, a new assessment by the lead United States meteorological body has found. Scientists from the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) …
