The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Solar and wind power projects too harm the environment. We must generate renewable energy in a responsible way. Solar and wind energy are considered environment-friendly, with zero carbon emissions. These sources of energy are going to be the main elements of India’s proposed march towards a low-carbon-economy. But doubts have …
Fossil fuel subsidies undermine international efforts to avert dangerous climate change and represent a drain on national budgets. They also fail in one of their core objectives: to benefit the poorest. Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies would create a win-win scenario. It would eliminate the perverse incentives that drive up …
The PwC Low Carbon Economy Index calculates the rate of decarbonisation of the global economy that is needed to limit warming to 2°C. In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its Fifth Assessment Report, which includes a carbon budget for the remainder of this century giving a …
The publication brings together carbon market professionals, policymakers, academics and NGOs to provide in-depth analysis and perspective on the main issues affecting carbon policy worldwide. IETA is global in its outreach and the publication features latest developments in current and emerging carbon markets, as well as taking a step back …
The purpose of this study is to develop financing strategies that would assist the Central and State Governments in implementing the State Action Plans on Climate Change (SAPCC) in an effective and efficient manner. There are broadly three different sources of climate finance available to States: public (domestic), private and …
Electricity shortages can paralyse our modern economies. All governments fear rolling black-outs and their economic consequences, especially in economies increasingly based on digital technologies. Over the last two decades, the development of markets for power has produced cost reduction, technological innovation, increased cross border trade and assured a steady supply …
E3G, have published a report Understanding Climate Diplomacy – Building diplomatic capacity and systems to avoid dangerous climate change, with CDKN support. The report defines climate diplomacy as encompassing a rich understanding of how to shape the national interest debate, through engaging new constituencies that can leverage change. The aim …
While the international community aims to limit global warming to below 2C to prevent dangerous climate change, little progress has been made towards a global climate agreement to implement the emissions reductions required to reach this target. We use an integrated energy–economy–climate modeling system to examine how a further delay …
Green New Deal campaign group says £50bn should be spent on technology, cheap housing and insulating homes Campaigners have warned that Britain is hurtling towards a new economic crisis, and call for a £50bn "Green New Deal" to create more sustainable growth and better-paid jobs and equip the country for …
This UNICEF report bears out the reality that young people around the world understand that the damage that is being done to the Earth by man-fuelled climate change is damage that their generation will have to suffer, pay for, and attempt to rectify. The quotes of children from Madagascar to …
The report, titled 'Low Carbon City: A Guidebook for City Planners and Practitioners,' provides basic guidance to city level policy makers, urban planners, transport planners and consultants. The guidebook focuses on: the meaning of "low carbon" in the context of long-term global climate stabilization target; low carbon scenarios and alternate …
Deloitte's Global Energy & Resources group is delighted to introduce Alternative thinking 2013, which puts renewable energy under the spotlight. The objective of this report is to identify for developers, investors, and policy-makers a few of the important current trends and opportunities in renewable energy, point out where significant barriers …
At the US-India Strategic Dialogue in the Capital on Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry and external affairs minister Salman Khurshid reaffirmed their countries’ strong commitment to energy security, combat global climate change and support the development of low-carbon economies to create opportunities. The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) …
This mid-year update of the Status Report on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) by Ecofys and ECN was launched at the Bonn Climate Change Conference in June 2013. It shows that NAMAs are becoming an increasingly attractive vehicle for developing countries looking to attract climate finance for low-carbon development activities. …
This Guidebook was developed by the World Bank and DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability to provide guidance to cities and urban practitioners on designing and implementing a Low Carbon City Development Program (LCCDP) that complies with the LCCDP Assessment Protocol. An LCCDP is a systems-approach to low carbon development, including …
India’s resolve to reduce its emission intensity by 20-25 per cent by 2020 as compared to the levels in 2005 is enthusiastic as well as challenging. In order to ensure that the Indian economy, while meeting its development objectives, also pursues a sustainable development pathway, it is important to analyze …
Turning the Right Corner: Ensuring Development through a Low-Carbon Transport Sector finds that adopting new vehicle technologies and alternative fuels will not be enough to curb greenhouse gas emissions from transport: new patterns of mobility will also be needed. In developing countries where past infrastructure investments have not yet locked …
The EU has set itself the ambition of an 80% reduction of greenhouse gases by 2050. Such a drastic reduction requires a much more vigorous renewal of the energy system. Setting a target for emission reduction alone is not enough This needs to be complemented by policies and targets for …
The Low-Carbon Growth Policy Tracker for Indian states has been developed by WWF- India with technical inputs from Ernst & Young LLP. It assesses low-carbon policies across states in the country, evaluates their effectiveness in reducing GHG emissions across all major sectors and encourages new policies promoting overall low-carbon transformation …
