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CO2 Emissions Growth Almost Stalled In 2014By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 27, 2015
Global CO2 emissions growth almost stalled in 2014, slowing to only 0.5% growth compared to 2013, according to new figures released this week. A new report published by ... Read more.. Subject Tags: carbon emission , Climate Change |
One Million Clean Cookstoves Cut CO2 Emissions, Fuel CostsBy : sustainabilityo..., Nov 26, 2015
Wood-burning clean cookstoves are pretty low-tech compared to many of the devices, gadgets, and concepts usually featured at CleanTechnica. Their impact, however, ranks right up there with much more complex clean technology.... Read more.. |
Not Good Enough: Meta-Analysis Of Climate INDC StudiesBy : sustainabilityo..., Nov 24, 2015
Last week, analysts Kelly Levin and Taryn Fransen of the World Resources Institute munched and crunched about a dozen very recent reports that examine how far the world’s climate action commitments (intended nationally determined contributions) will combat global warming. Not... Read more.. |
October 2015 becomes first month to cross key global warming boundaryBy : sustainabilityo..., Nov 19, 2015
The planet has not been only record warm this year, it's been so unusually mild that the temperature records themselves have set records of their own. This is the case with October 2015, according to new preliminary NASA data released Tuesday. The information shows... Read more.. Subject Tags: carbon emission , Climate Change |
Carbon dioxide levels hit record high: WMOBy : sustainabilityo..., Nov 13, 2015
Carbon dioxide concentrations have reached a crucial level. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in an annual accounting of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, reported that average levels... Read more.. Subject Tags: carbon emission , global warming |
India Is Caught in a Climate Change QuandaryBy : sustainabilityo..., Nov 12, 2015
India is home to 30 percent of the world’s poorest, those living on less than $1.90 a day. Of the 1.3 billion Indians, 304 million do not have access to electricity; 92 million have no access to safe drinking water. And India is going to be hammered by... Read more.. |
Shift to Lower-Carbon Energy Is Too Slow, Report WarnsBy : sustainabilityo..., Nov 10, 2015
Even as the world shifts toward lower-carbon forms of energy, the changes are happening too slowly to keep global temperatures from rising to dangerous levels in the coming decades, an international research group warns in a report to be released on Tuesday. And low... Read more.. Subject Tags: carbon emission , Sustainable Development |
Earth's climate entering new 'permanent reality' as CO2 hits new highBy : sustainabilityo..., Nov 10, 2015
The Earth’s climate will enter a new “permanent reality” from next year when concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are likely to pass a historic milestone, the head of the UN’s weather agency has warned. The record concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere were up 43%... Read more.. |
UN raises ceiling for greenhouse gas pollutionBy : sustainabilityo..., Nov 10, 2015
The U.N.’s environmental authority has quietly raised its assessment of the level at which global greenhouse gas emissions must peak to avoid dangerous climate change, as governments seek a new accord to fight global warming. In its first four annual emissions reports... Read more.. |
U.N. climate fund approves first projects ahead of Paris summitBy : sustainabilityo..., Nov 6, 2015
A multi-billion dollar fund set up by the United Nations to help poor countries tackle climate change on Friday approved its first eight projects, which will receive $168 million, a key step before a global climate summit starts on Nov. 30.... |