TerraDaily: It’s a message no one wants to hear: To slow down global warming, we’ll either have to put the…
A 50 percent reduction in meat consumption and emissions is needed
Woods Hole Research Center: Meat consumption in the developed world…
IEA: Due to the 2008-2009 economic crisis global CO₂emissions decreased for the first time since 1990, but a large rebound…
Territory size shows the proportion of carbon dioxide emissions in 2000 that were directly from there.
LONDON (AlertNet) – An international trading system based on a per capita carbon emissions target by mid-century could help limit…
The Statistical Review has evolved in response to changes in the world’s energy mix, as well as the increasingly global markets…
The IEA sets the record straight on energy-related misperceptions
Myth: We could end dependence on oil with electric vehicles within a…
The Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN), published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
The International Energy Agency on Wednesday released its first Clean Energy Progress Report, which…
Carbon Nation doesn’t waste time arguing that climate change is real and caused by humans, the film steps right into…
Mission:
To advance our scientific understanding of the ocean carbon cycle and how it is changing over time in support of…
On pure emissions alone, the key points are:
• China emits more CO2 than the US and Canada put together –…
From Singapore’s high tech congestion management system to New York’s PlaNYC 2030 to Yokohama’s zero-carbon emissions goal, the future greening…
“Fossil fuel”: it’s a term that’s been as synonymous with human activity as breathing since the beginning of the 20th…
Mayors from around the world have signed an agreement to address climate change at the World Mayors Summit on Climate,…
Levels of the man-made greenhouse gas being dumped into the atmosphere have never been higher and are once again accelerating.…
The report is based on the latest research results from Risø DTU, together with available international literature and reports
This Risø…
In the lead-up to the UN climate negotiations in Cancún, the latest information on the level and growth of CO2…
What is Earth Overshoot Day?
Earth Overshoot Day — a concept devised by U.K.-based new economics foundation — marks an unfortunate…
As the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has amply demonstrated, growing global energy demand and the anticipated restricted availability…
Sir David King, Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, has today called on governments to recognise…
If the world’s major nations fail to enact significant changes in energy and climate policies, global carbon dioxide emissions will…
Does the failure of December’s UN climate conference mean the world needs a completely new approach to tackling climate change?…
A new direction for climate policy
Rapid advance in addressing climate change is now possible for the first time in 15…
April 2010 —
The Global Economy and Development program at Brookings today released a new report — “Climate Crisis, Credit Crisis:…
Europe can switch to low carbon sources of energy without jeopardising reliability or forcing up energy bills to punitive levels,…
The IGBP Climate-Change Index brings together key indicators of global change: atmospheric carbon dioxide, temperature, sea level and sea ice.
About…
Amid a growing call for reducing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 to 350 parts per million, a group of economists maintains…
This year, Environmental Science & Technology is honoring 10 papers published in 2009 as the year’s best. They were selected…
A new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science finds that over a third of carbon dioxide emissions…
In Australia, several environmental groups have banded together to encourage a new approach to climate action. They’re steering away from…
In November 2006, the Secretary-General Kofi Annan launched the Nairobi Framework, aimed at supporting the application of the Kyoto Protocol’s…
Launch of ET Carbon Ranking
Monday 22.02.2010 saw the launch of the Environmental Investment Organisation’s new Global Carbon Rankings. For the…
Each year, scientists at NASA’S Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as…
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary…
When We Talk Zero, We Sound Crazy. When Bill Gates Does It, Bankers Pick Up the Phone.
On Friday, the world’s…
The ability to compare pledges is seen as a vital element of ensuring a fair, equitable, and transparent global agreement.…
PRAGUE (Reuters) – A small pacific island state’s challenge to a Czech coal-fired power plant extension some 6,000 km away…
After last month’s United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen failed to produce a binding agreement to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, the…
Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii (USA) Atmospheric CO2 was 387.27 parts per million (ppm) in the last month of 2009, according…
Case Studies on Moving Towards a Low Carbon Economy United Nations Environment Programme
Supporting countries in meeting the climate change challenge
In…
Edgar Hertwich, Professor, Dept. of Energy and process engineering, NTNU
The Climate Conference in Copenhagen has ended as expected: with a…
With the regulatory period of the Kyoto Protocol ending in 2012, and discussions between the Parties to the UNFCCC on…
23 November 2009 (WMO) – Levels of most greenhouse gases continue to increase. In 2008, global concentrations of carbon dioxide,…
The concept of climate justice acknowledges that because the world’s richest countries have contributed most to the problem, they have…
* One fifth of the global carbon budget for the first half of this century has gone in just eight…
The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen…
The research, ‘Europe’s Share of the Climate Challenge: Domestic Actions and International Obligations to Protect the Planet’ [1] shows how…
This report examines how Europe can show leadership in keeping global climate change within these limits: firstly, by undertaking domestic…
