カテゴリー: Greenhouse gas emissions
Industry bigger than all but seven world economies, and accounts for more than third of China’s economic growthChina’s clean energy industries drove more than 90% of the country’s investment growth last year, making the sectors bigger than all but seve…
Exclusive: Tshering Tobgay says his country is doing ‘a lot more than our fair share’ on climate and west must cut emissions ‘for the happiness of your people’The wealthy western countries most responsible for the climate crisis would improve the healt…
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensityChina’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, analysis reveals, adding evidence to the hope that the world’s bigg…
Ralph Regenvanu, minister of climate change for the Pacific island nation, says step taken on ‘behalf of everybody’Vanuatu is working on securing a UN vote to turn a landmark ruling on the climate crisis by the international court of justice (ICJ) into…
As the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter shifts to cleaner energy, some families fear being left behindGazing over the remains of his home, Wang Bingbing surveys a decades-old jujube tree flowering through the rubble, and the yard where he and his…
Proposal faces the surprising opposition of France – despite most Europeans being firmly in favour of climate measuresEurope live – latest updatesFor most of the past 30 years, the EU has led the world on climate action. The bloc had the deepest reduct…
Research reflects rising optimism about country’s green transition as it takes leading position on climate actionNearly half of experts surveyed by a climate thinktank believe China’s carbon dioxide emissions have already peaked, or will do so in 2025,…
Absence of legally binding targets for greenhouse gas reductions from 2031-49 deemed unconstitutionalSouth Korea’s constitutional court has ruled that part of the country’s climate law does not conform with protecting the constitutional rights of futur…
Figure represents 64-66% of global output of tetrafluoromethane and hexafluoroethane, MIT study findsEmissions of two of the most potent greenhouse gases have substantially increased in China over the last decade, a study has found.Perfluorocarbons are…
World’s biggest carbon emitter approving equivalent of two new coal plants a week, analysis showsChina is approving new coal power projects at the equivalent of two plants every week, a rate energy watchdogs say is unsustainable if the country hopes to…
Leaks of potent greenhouse gas could be easily fixed, say experts, and would rapidly reduce global heatingMethane leaks alone from Turkmenistan’s two main fossil fuel fields caused more global heating in 2022 than the entire carbon emissions of the UK,…
Local governments approved more coal power in first three months of 2023 than all of 2021Local governments in China approved more new coal power in the first three months of 2023 than in the whole of 2021, according to official documents.The approvals,…
The country depends overwhelmingly on secondhand cars from Japan, which makes barely any electric vehiclesNew Zealand has long been known for its high ratio of sheep to people. But really what stands out on various per-capita lists is just how much we…
Wave of permits for coal-fired power plants sparks concern as ambitions for GDP growth and lowering emissions come into conflictChina’s energy policies are fast creating a type of “emissions ambiguity”, as the twin goals of boosting GDP growth and redu…
Concerns about energy shortages drive increase as projects progress at ‘extraordinary’ speedChina approved the construction of another 106 gigawatts of coal-fired power capacity last year, four times higher than a year earlier and the highest since 201…