Climate Emergency CoP 25: India must release its 2005 baseline emissions data

This will enable much high quality policy-relevant analysis of India’s road to sustainability

‘The Earth is revealing the carbon cycle to modern science’

Balz S Kamber speaks to Down To Earth about the effect of anthropogenic emissions on the global carbon cycle

South Africa’s carbon tax: Aim to ensure zero waste to landfill

The tax launched June 1, 2019, aims to cut emissions by a third next year, 42% by 2025  

COP27: India’s national statement lacked teeth; was centred around mission LiFE

No mention in India’s statement at COP27 on key negotiating agendas, complain experts

World headed towards 2.4°C warming despite CoP26, according to 4 assessments

We may still be able to limit warming to 2°C, but 1.5°C will require technology to play an outsized role that it currently does not …

Japan has rolled out a bevy of projects to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Are they enough?

Achieving the net-zero emissions target would require a major push to build clean energy infrastructure  

Plants are great at storing CO2. These scientists aim to make them even better

Researchers around the world are working to improve plants’ ability to combat climate change

Africa Climate Summit 2023: Continent should exploit carbon market potential to raise climate finance, say experts

Africa’s climate activists, however, criticised initiative, saying it will incentivise pollution, benefit fossil fuel companies

Shipping emissions must fall by a third by 2030 and reach zero before 2050 – new research

CoP26 will put a much needed spotlight on the shipping sector. At a subsequent meeting in November 2021, the IMO will discuss plans for revising …

Global emissions almost back to pre-pandemic levels after unprecedented drop in 2020, new analysis shows

From the beginning of 2022, the world can emit an additional 420 billion tonnes of CO2 to limit global warming to 1.5℃, or 11 years of …

Greenland is melting: We need to worry about what’s happening on the world’s largest island

The three largest glaciers were responsible for 8.1 millimetre of sea level rise, about 15% of the whole ice sheet’s contribution

Biden winning US elections 2020 shows how clean air, climate inaction influence mandate

Joe Biden’s electoral victory proves that democracy can work for science and environmental justice, says Anumita Roychowdhury of CSE

Emission impossible

We need to change the way we farm, we eat and we think as agriculture is the largest source of non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions

My clean air concerns

The bottomline is even with the region practically closed down, air quality is still nowhere close to where we need it to be. This should worry …

Deaths due to heat wave likely to increase by up to 2000%

By 2080, deaths from heat waves could increase by up to 2,000 percent in some areas of the world, say Australian researchers

Urgent call for action: IEA’s 2023 update to Net Zero roadmap

Ground is set for COP28 with this report calling for end to new fossil fuel development & increasing equitable clean energy investment

COP27: Report sees slight rise in 2022 global emissions; highest in India

World may cross 1.5°C rise in 9 years if current emissions continue  

Why flooding raises alarm over bearing of hydropower plants on the Himalayas

The need of the hour is to put halt large hydel-power projects in the Himalayas. Can small hydropower plants offer a sustainable solution?

Carbon storage hub along US Gulf Coast can reduce emissions viably: Study

A high concentration of power generation industries exist in Texas and Louisiana, making it a good spot to build up a carbon storage hub

Massive exercise underway to map air pollution sources in Delhi

A group of scientists and students are braving heat and dust this summer in the national capital to map all possible sources of air pollution

Climate change first ‘went viral’ exactly 70 years ago

Throughout the 50s and 60s US, Swedish, German and Soviet scientists were examining the issue

COP27: Non-state actors can’t destroy the environment, yet claim to be net zero, says report

Businesses, financial institutions, cities and regions must ensure that their operations don’t contribute to deforestation, peatland loss …

Climate change is real: Strong cyclones to reduce in Bay of Bengal, rise in Arabian Sea by 2050, says study

Globally, the risk of strong tropical cyclones is expected to become more than double by 2050, according to the study

Hydrogen costs to fall over 95% by 2050, predicts report

Green hydrogen technology will fill the gap between renewable energy and Net Zero carbon emissions.

Then and now: Prime polluters

China, US and EU-27 (excluding the UK) currently emit over 50% of the world’s 36.44 GtCO2 Africa and India, each with 17% of the world’…