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 …
This report provides a reassessment of the human and economic costs of the climate crisis. The reassessment is based on a wealth of the latest research and scientific work on climate change and the carbon economy, research that is assimilated as a part of this report. The main finding of …
Developing countries need to transition to a low-carbon transport sector now to avoid locking themselves into an unsustainable and costly future, says a report by the World Bank. According to "Turning the Right Corner: Ensuring Development Through a Low-carbon Transport Sector", technical progress will take too long to fix the …
The cement industry is a major source of CO2 emissions, accounting for about 5 per cent of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Securing reductions in these emissions is critical if wider targets for emissions cuts—including the reductions of 80–95 per cent by 2050 set out in the EU roadmap and the reduction …
The UK is successfully building the green economy by creating long term market incentives for green goods and services and its ambitious environmental targets, according to a new report by think tank Green Alliance. The report compiles official Government figures to review the UK's green economy and suggests that the …
Worries are surfacing that the shale gas boom could have a negative impact on the renewable industry according to a report published this week from UK think tank, Chatham House. In an interview with the author, Professor Paul Stevens told edie that questions over the extent to which the thriving …
The Government has introduced new analysis to examine the potential for innovation of low carbon technologies, while assessing their economic benefits to the UK. The analysis reports, called the Technology Innovation Needs Assessments (TINAs), look at technologies in the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) sector, as well as marine energy, …
The government will invest 100 million pounds with two specialist investment houses to encourage investment into improving Britain's energy efficiency, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Monday. Specialist fund managers at Equitix and Sustainable Development Capital (SDCL) will use the money - which will be provided by UK Green …
Study calculated each country's efforts to reduce energy use in industry, transport, and buildings as well as overall policies It lacks the glitz or glamour of the Olympics but the UK won a race that really does matter on Thursday, taking the gold in energy efficiency. A report launched in …
Up to 1.5 billion euros ($1.83 billion) could be available by the end of this year to fund renewable energy and carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects across the European Union bloc, the European Commission said on Thursday. The funding will be allocated to two to three CCS projects and …
The low-carbon products and services sector, often referred to as green business, could contribute 20 billion pounds ($31.16 billion) to Britain's economy by 2015, the country's leading business lobby said on Thursday. "Get our energy and climate change policies right, and we can add 20 billion pounds extra to our …
Developing Asia is the driver of today’s emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflecting this global reality and a range of related domestic issues, the governments of the People’s Republic of China, India, …
Once every two years, IGES releases a white paper focusing on key policy agendas in the Asia-Pacific region. The Fourth IGES White Paper, entitled "Greening Governance in Asia-Pacific" examines innovative approaches to governance and institutions that have emerged from the region and recommends governance arrangements and policy solutions to accelerate …
Green growth entails several different kinds of processes: conversion to low-carbon energy, climate resilience, and response to climate shocks. Equity implies a fair sharing of the costs, within countries and between countries. The authors set out to explore some of the ways that equity has been considered in climate change …
Institutional investors are becoming increasingly concerned that climate change poses a serious challenge to their investments. Despite growing evidence produced by climate science, global emissions continue to increase, and national and international policy responses remain inconsistent. Thus, the urgency of action by investors, companies and policymakers on climate change continues …
Ireland is facing formidable environmental challenges, particularly in relation to water, climate change and nature protection, concludes the latest country report from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). That's despite the environment being described as 'generally in good condition overall'. The impact of Ireland's economic pressures on environmental issues also receives …
Indian cement industry is the second largest in the world with total installed cement capacity of about 323.02 million tonnes per year (as of March 2011) with annual growth rate of 9% during the five year period 2006-2011. Though the Indian cement industry has achieved excellence in energy efficiency & …
The carbon tax has become one of the most politically divisive and bitterly fought tax reforms of this century and governments around the world, and in particular Asia, are debating the issue. In an attempt to cut carbon emissions and reduce the effects of global warming, many countries are implementing …
Coal-reliant Poland has pitched itself against the other 26 members of the European Union ahead of a debate on a low-carbon energy future this week, EU sources said. The Commission aims to establish policy direction once a set of green energy goals runs out in 2020. Poland has repeatedly objected …
Rich countries must stop lecturing developing countries and accelerate their own efforts to cut emissions. There is no shortage of people telling India what to do on low-carbon growth, but there is a shortage of understanding of what India is doing. Even the UNDP in its recent Asia Pacific Human …
European environment ministers are expected to reopen a difficult debate later this month on deeper EU carbon emissions cuts, but a draft text ahead of the meeting stops short of any firm targets. Previous discussion of bigger carbon cuts has been tense, with coal-reliant Poland objecting that they could damage …
