Gujarat launches India’s first trading programme to combat particulate air pollution
Launched on World Environment Day, the programme is a market-based system where the government sets a cap on emissions and allows industries to …
Africa Climate Summit 2023: African Carbon Markets Initiative to benefit fossil fuel companies, financial brokers, says report
Initiative has already attracted investors from the United Arab Emirates which has committed to buy $450 million of carbon credits
EU’s top 10 emitters are all coal plants — and 7 of them are repeat offenders
Poland, Germany dominate Europe’s emissions; long-term trend of coal power emissions shows a decline
Emissions trading: ‘Permanence of carbon credits, human rights protection needs focus at COP27’
Jonathan Crook, policy officer at Carbon Market Watch, on carbon market negotiations in the first week of COP27
Let’s discuss food’s climate impact
More than any other economic sector, agriculture creates a divide between the world that emits for survival and the one that emits for luxury
Why we need to look beyond the farm to achieve sustainability in agri-food systems
Time is ripe to start focusing on the whole agricultural value chain to tackle the three-fold challenges of rural livelihoods, climate adaptation …
A milestone: India to regulate real driving emissions from new vehicles today onwards
Vehicles will get tested for real driving emissions in real traffic conditions from today onwards to ensure durable emissions performance and to …
Net Zero by 2050 will hit a major timing problem technology can’t solve. We need to talk about cutting consumption
While renewables are making major inroads, the world’s overall primary energy use keeps risin
Australia’s top economists back carbon price, say benefits of net-zero outweigh cost
With right settings in place, Australia could become a major producer of zero-emissions hydrogen, and industrial powerhouse that used its iron …
IPCC’s new report on climate change is a call to action
The latest IPCC report confirms that we can no longer lose time in prevarication or in finding new excuses not to act, including empty promises …
Physical stores emit more GHG than home delivery, less than online stores
Study by European researchers assessed three types of shopping including traditional and two types of online
IEA’s push for climate ambition must start at home
International Energy Agency's latest carbon dioxide numbers try to greenwash biggest historic polluters
IIT Madras inks pact with ExxonMobil to boost biofuel research
The five-year agreement is focused on data analytics, gas conversion and transport and is aimed towards finding low-emission solutions
The climate rollback that irks even oil heavyweights
Trump administration’s methane rollback has enraged environmentalists while oil majors aren’t happy either
UK on track to be first G7 country to legislate for net zero emissions by 2050
The Climate Change Act, 2008 will be amended on June 12 in Parliament, as advised by the Committee on Climate Change
What WMO report says on climate trends: Drivers and impacts
2015-2021 will be the warmest years on record, the World Meteorological Organization report flagged
New report puts a $759 billion price tag on decarbonising global petrochemicals sector
BloombergNEF study explored how to cut emissions from fossil fuel’s non-energy uses
Lessons from PAT scheme can shape Indian carbon market
Carbon Credit and Trading Scheme must set ambitious targets and robust framework; compliance must be timely and with real penalties
World EV Day: Busting the myths surrounding electric vehicles
Ahead of World EV Day, Centre for Science and Environment tries to answer some questions on electric vehicles
Current emissions targets could keep the planet below a 2°C temperature rise but a turbocharged effort is needed
Delivering on long-term promises requires decarbonisation efforts at unprecedented speed and scale
Methane emissions from wetlands rose 5-6% since 2000-2006: Study
Methane is responsible for roughly 30 per cent of the rise in temperature since the pre-industrial period
Reviewing Punjab’s new EV policy: Will it help achieve desired fleet electrification?
All in all, it is a policy enabling supply side of the value chain, as well as supporting buyers of EVs with the ‘feebate’ incentive …
Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future – not skyscrapers
Densely built, low-rise environments are more space and carbon efficient, while high-rise buildings have a drastically higher carbon impact
‘The expectation that burden of US inaction will be borne by developing countries is unfair’
Given its economic capacity and carbon debt it owes the world, US should not emit any carbon in the future at all.
Canada’s latest climate plan bets on expensive and unproven carbon capture technologies
Bill C-12, if passed, commits Canada to “binding” targets every five years as of 2030 with the goal of achieving net-zero emissions …