All The World's News
Recent News Headlines : Carbon Emissions
MEAT TAX INEVITABLE TO BEAT CLIMATE AND HEALTH CRISES, SAYS REPORT
Meat taxes are often seen as politically impossible but research by Chatham House in 2015 found they are far less unpalatable to consumers than governments think... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S OIL SALE PLANS PROMPT FEARS OF GLOBAL FOSSIL FUEL EXTRACTION RACE
The accusations contradict Brazil's position at this week's climate talks, where the country's negotiators have urged the world to be more ambitious in cutting carbon emissions... READ MORE›
FOSSIL FUEL BURNING SET TO HIT RECORD HIGH IN 2017, SCIENTISTS WARN
The expected jump in the carbon emissions that drive global warming is a giant leap backwards for humankind, according to some scientists... READ MORE›
GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC CO2 LEVELS HIT RECORD HIGH
The new report has raised alarm among scientists and prompted calls for nations to consider more drastic emissions reductions at the upcoming climate negotiations in Bonn... READ MORE›
NEW DATA GIVES HOPE FOR MEETING THE PARIS CLIMATE TARGETS
When the global economy has been strong, we've consumed more energy, which has translated into burning more fossil fuels and releasing more carbon pollution... READ MORE›
NASA SATELLITE SPOTS SEASONAL SPIKES IN CARBON EMISSIONS, INCLUDING IN TROPICS DUE TO EL NINO
Data from a circling NASA satellite show spikes in carbon emissions worldwide, particularly in winter, along with new insights into the rising levels of po... READ MORE›
WORLD WILL NEED 'CARBON SUCKING' TECHNOLOGY BY 2030S, SCIENTISTS WARN
I don't think we can have confidence that anything else can do this, the Berlin-based chief executive told a London climate change conference... READ MORE›
FOREST LOSS MEANS TROPICS EMIT MORE CARBON THAN THEY TRAP, STUDY SAYS
The forests of Asia experienced the least losses -- just over 16 percent of the total for the tropics... READ MORE›
ALARM AS STUDY REVEALS WORLDS TROPICAL FORESTS ARE HUGE CARBON EMISSION SOURCE
Let's turn tropical forests back into a sink... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Carbon Emissions
WANT TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE? HAVE FEWER CHILDREN
Population reduction would probably reduce carbon emissions but we have many other tools for getting global warming under control, he said... READ MORE›
TRUMP SAYS ENERGY REGULATIONS ARE HURTING ECONOMIC GROWTH. THE EVIDENCE SAYS OTHERWISE.
The assumption they are making is that economic growth depends upon increasing carbon emissions... READ MORE›
HOPES OF MILD CLIMATE CHANGE DASHED BY NEW RESEARCH
The new research shows the 4.5C upper limit for climate sensitivity is real and means projections for global temperature rises cannot be reduced... READ MORE›
YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT DESTROYS 30 SQUARE METRES OF ARCTIC SEA ICE A YEAR
The average westerner's carbon emissions destroy 30 square metres of Arctic sea ice every year, according to new research... READ MORE›
GLOBAL CARBON INTENSITY FALLS AS COAL USE DECLINES
The result was just 0.1 percent lower than the previous year, but it occurred against the background of healthy growth, which usually spurs carbon emissions growth... READ MORE›
AMBITIOUS 1.5C PARIS CLIMATE TARGET IS STILL POSSIBLE, NEW ANALYSIS SHOWS
A commonly used scenario for ambitious carbon cuts, called RCP2.6 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, projects ever bigger carbon cuts as time passes... READ MORE›
UK, FRANCE AND GERMANY LOBBIED FOR FLAWED CAR EMISSIONS TESTS, DOCUMENTS REVEAL
But a fully-charged battery also prevents a car's alternator from kicking in and releasing carbon emissions during tests, as would happen in real world driving situations... READ MORE›
CLIMATE CHANGE RATE TO TURN SOUTHERN SPAIN TO DESERT BY 2100, REPORT WARNS
Southern Spain will be reduced to desert by the end of the century if the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked, researchers have warned... READ MORE›
SKY-HIGH CARBON TAX NEEDED TO AVOID CLIMATE CATASTROPHE, SAY EXPERTS
Leading economists, including Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern say taxes of 100 per metric tonne could be needed by 2030... READ MORE›
WORLD WILL PASS CRUCIAL 2C GLOBAL WARMING LIMIT, EXPERTS WARN
Carbon pledges from 147 nations to Paris climate summit are not enough to stop temperature rise, experts conclude... READ MORE›
EUROPE UNLIKELY TO MEET CLIMATE GOAL STUDY FINDS
The closings occurred just as Europe began tackling climate change, which assisted the European Union in meeting its 2020 targets, he said... READ MORE›
RICHARD BRANSON LEADS CALL TO FREE GLOBAL ECONOMY FROM CARBON EMISSIONS
Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense, he said... READ MORE›
NOCERA OBAMAS FLEXIBLE FIX TO CLIMATE CHANGE
They wanted to prove, with sulfur dioxide emissions, that a flexible, market-based system worked -- and would work for carbon emissions as well... READ MORE›
CLIMATE SUMMITS PLEDGES ON CARBON CUTS WONT AVERT GLOBAL DISASTER
Melting of the tundra at the polar ice cap would release more methane and other greenhouse gases... READ MORE›
COAL CRASH: HOW PENSION FUNDS FACE HUGE RISK FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
In the US, 25 public sector pension funds have investments in the the top 50 coal companies, spread from California to Alabama, Ohio and New York... READ MORE›
WHY GUILT AND ETHICAL SHOPPING AREN'T ENOUGH WE NEED TO START SHAMING
A quick word on the differences between guilt and shame... READ MORE›
6-POINT CLIMATE CHANGE PLAN LAID OUT BY SCIENTISTS, POLICYMAKERS
Referencing those positive notes, the scientists and policymakers revealed six milestones that could reduce global carbon emissions... READ MORE›
CHINA'S CARBON EMISSIONS OVERESTIMATED BY UP TO 14 PER CENT IN THE LAST DECADE, SAY SCIENTISTS
Professor Dave Reay of Edinburgh University said that the revision of China's carbon emissions make no difference to the overall climate picture... READ MORE›
CARBON PRICING BECOMES A CAUSE FOR THE WORLD BANK AND IMF
Mr. Kim, the World Bank president, acknowledged that carbon pricing would come with burdens including higher energy costs... READ MORE›
WORLD'S BIGGEST POLLUTER CHINA RATIFIES PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE DEAL
China has ratified the Paris climate change agreement, boosting efforts to bring the deal into force by the end of the year... READ MORE›
FOSSIL FUEL BURNING 'POSTPONING NEXT ICE AGE'
Sea levels rise and fall by more than 100 metres during global ice ages, and runaway global warming could add another 70m to that... READ MORE›
OIL COMPANIES DENY THAT JOINT CLIMATE PLEDGE IS LIP SERVICE
The heads of 10 major oil and gas companies have denied they are paying lip service to climate change initiatives while conducting business as usual... READ MORE›
CHINA'S CARBON EMISSIONS FROM FOSSIL FUELS MAY BE 14% LOWER THAN THOUGHT
China's carbon emissions from fossil fuels may be 14 percent lower than thought... READ MORE›
U.S. APPEALS COURT DECLINES TO BLOCK OBAMA CARBON EMISSIONS PLAN
The rule aims to lower carbon emissions from the country's power plants by 2030 to 32 percent below 2005 levels... READ MORE›
COP 21: UN CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE | PARIS
Latest news and comment on the COP21 UN climate change conference in Paris, France... READ MORE›
CHINA'S CARBON EMISSIONS MAY HAVE PEAKED ALREADY, SAYS LORD STERN
Carbon emissions may have peaked already in China, years earlier than its leaders pledged, according to a study co-authored by the world-renowned economist Lord Stern... READ MORE›
IT'S THE ECONOMY THAT NEEDS TO BE INTEGRATED INTO THE ENVIRONMENT
But there is reason to doubt either the sincerity or analytical rigour of BP's faith in carbon pricing as the principal tool for tackling climate change... READ MORE›
CARBON EMISSIONS HIGHEST IN 66 MILLION YEARS
Given currently available records, the present anthropogenic carbon release rate is unprecedented during the past 66 million years, the scientists wrote in the journal Nature Geoscience... READ MORE›
BEHIND THE SCENES AT COP21, RICH COUNTRIES ARE OUTSOURCING THEIR PROBLEMS TO THE POOREST
Behind the scenes at COP21, the rich countries responsible for climate change outsource their problems to the poorest... READ MORE›