Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Flooding hits Bentiu, South Sudan in 2014. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 25, 2021. It’s an issue to which the world’s poorest countries like South Sudan largely did not contribute—comprising just a sliver of global carbon emissions—but are the most vulnerable. agencies say.
Legal Planet
MAY 16, 2023
On a per capita basis, Australia’s carbon emissions are even higher than the United States. That was repealed in 2014, and the ensuing period saw little progress. A decade ago, Australia had a climate tax. In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments.
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A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 13, 2022
“This collaboration with Constellation is an exciting next step toward meeting our environmental goals of reaching 100% renewable purchased electricity by 2025 and reducing carbon emissions and energy use 75% by 2035.” Investing In Renewables Since 2014, PNC has invested nearly $2.3
Frontiers
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Every five years, they are to issue so-called ‘nationally determined contributions’ (NDCs), describing their actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate change impacts. This success is an important achievement, as the OCO missions were designed to measure carbon emissions at much larger spatial scales.
HumanNature
MARCH 31, 2021
Guest Post By Erin Boedicker , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Black carbon’s lifetime is on the order of days to a couple weeks, which is about 0.004% of the lifetime of other pollutants like CO 2 (which has a lifetime of 300 – 1000 years). The Lancet 389 (10082): 1907–18. link] Evans, M., Malyshev, S.
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Natural gas had the same problems during a cold weather event in 2014 and the polar vortex in 2018. In 2021, Pennsylvania relied on natural gas for 53% of its electric generation capacity; 31% on nuclear; 12% on coal and 4% on renewables and other sources, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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