Circle of Blue

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new study finds that deforestation is causing more intense storms along West Africa’s coast. A new study finds that storms are hitting coastal West Africa twice as frequently as 30 years ago, mainly due to deforestation. Urban growth and an increased demand for land has led to mass deforestation in major cities in West Africa.

2022

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The CI is determined through a lifecycle analysis of the global warming pollution associated with the production and use of gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or other alternative fuels. California may seem like an unlikely driver of deforestation from soybean and palm oil biofuels. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth.

Biofuels

Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

Mexico’s climate commitment for 2030 under the Paris Agreement calls for cutting emissions 22%, cutting black carbon by half, and achieving net-zero deforestation. Recent changes in electricity regulation seem likely to increase the role of fuel oil in electricity production, which produces about 50% more carbon than natural gas.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

In the end, you might use more electricity, not less. An article last year in the science journal Nature estimated that “with solar energy accounting for 25 to 80% of the electricity mix, land occupation [ranges] from 0.5 In terms of transportation, reducing vehicle weight will reduce the power draw for electric vehicles.

Conservation

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

Still, these are the country’s poorest areas, ones that have only recently enjoyed the arrival of electricity. The Dayak-Bahau man had been arrested for protesting the mass deforestation of his ancestral lands, Borneo’s tropical rainforests, which account for six percent of the world’s biodiversity.

Rainforest

Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

Perhaps it would be wiser if it was on the front page and expressed even more directly?

Climate Change

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

With low access to electricity, many turn to felling trees to keep warm and cook. The rate of deforestation has since slowed, but it is still of major concern. Timber smuggling is another major cause of deforestation in the region. Furthermore, this decrease has accelerated, dropping from 45.9% Photo credit: Sajid Mir.

Deforestation

A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

With fears of energy rationing and rising electricity bills, farmers and livestock breeders opt for sustainability and self-sufficiency. This brings with it the possibility of severe electricity rationing. “Since 2019, our electricity bill has gone up a lot because of the tariff hike. photo credit: Björn Wylezich / Alamy.

Solar Power

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Zambia begins rationing electricity as paltry water levels shut down hydropower production at a major dam. Hydropower generated by the dam is the primary source of electricity for both countries. Beginning December 15, customers in Zambia will be forced to ration their electric supply, Reuters reports. . YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

2022

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, batteries help store clean energy to continue supplying electricity to the grid and to customers consistently and reliably. Explore some of UCS’s resources on electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling here , here , here, here and here. Mining and manufacturing present challenges.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 13, 2021

My partner and I have long questioned whether it was right to bring a child into the world in the middle of the climate crisis , grappling with whether or not it’s fair to bring her into a future of ferocious wildfires across multiple ecosystems, escalating deforestation, devastating floods, melting ice caps, crippling droughts, locust storms, etc.

Fossil Fuels

Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening,” he warned, “and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.”.

Climate Change

Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

. – But there were actual good news at COP27 , with genuine achievements that negotiators can be proud of : Newly reelected President Lula of Brazil has announced that his country was back on the front against climate change and deforestation. The dirty energy source is behind 60% of the country’s electricity consumption.

Fossil Fuels

Frontiers

JANUARY 18, 2023

You just can’t know all the challenges of going to world scale, until you do,” he said, “But the world has done this [with] smartphones, computers, photovoltaic panels, and electric cars – all of these had challenges, and we overcame them to take these ‘new’ technologies to world scale, so we know we can do it with algae.”

Biotechnology

Circle of Blue

APRIL 12, 2023

According to Mongabay , “more than 60 percent of people in Central Africa have no access to electricity.” billion project would “exacerbate flooding during the rainy season,” deforest “spiritually-significant forests,” and block fish migration. Residents of both countries along the border have contested the dam, saying that the $2.1

2023

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

billion) to revitalise coal-fired electricity production in southern Brazil, the region which holds the country’s largest reserves of the mineral. Meanwhile, Zancan, the president of ABCM, believes the discussion is trivial – since coal accounts for less than 5% of Brazil’s electricity supply and the Brazilian energy matrix pollute little.

2027

A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

They added that due to the increase in climate-friendly policies and laws we have seen enhanced energy efficiency, reduced deforestation rates and accelerated the deployment of renewable energy. New production processes will be necessary, with low and zero-emissions electricity, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) to reach net-zero.

Fossil Fuels

Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 24, 2023

His viewpoint is based on facts such as the exponential growth of renewable energy sources (something I blogged about recently ) as well as the increase in sales of electric cars. Simply switching from fossil fuels to renewables for our electricity and converting our fossil fuels cars to electric ones won’t cut it.

Fossil Fuels

Edouard Stenger

MARCH 20, 2017

Emissions in the United States last year were at their lowest level since 1992, a period during which the economy grew by 80%. (…)In 2016, renewables supplied more than half the global electricity demand growth, with hydro accounting for half of that share. Deforestation is one. But are there other factors for this ?

Carbon Dioxide

A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

Options for enhancing the ocean’s capacity to take in carbon include restoring ecosystems like kelp forests, adding minerals such as lime and using electricity to boost alkalinity. Photo credit: Daniel Poloha / Alamy. By Olive Heffernan. Additional reporting by Chelsea Noack. Putting a price on reality.

Ocean

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Despite a significant uptake of renewable energy, India still relies on coal plants for more than half of its installed electricity supply. As the mainstay of its energy supply – thermal power plants (coal, oil and gas) supply 56% (239 GW) of the country’s total installed electricity – coal remains crucial for Indian energy security.

Fossil Fuels

Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Electric vehicles (EVs) are booming but won’t be enough to solve the many problems our cities and communities are plagued with. Increasing our reliance on public transportation – electric buses and trains – and cycling/ walking will. Let us hope this upward trend continues. Transportation.

Carbon Dioxide

A Greener Life

JANUARY 13, 2023

Currently, only one in five people have access to electricity, so those low emissions are to do with poverty. Deforestation is an ongoing problem, so it is unlikely that Madagascar will be carbon negative for long. In the next decade, emissions are expected to increase.

Paris Agreement

Edouard Stenger

JULY 11, 2023

If solar and wind are becoming increasingly prominent in the electricity mix of the European Union , the UK and the US, their rise is still too slow to counter emissions increase or near stability in most sectors.

Fossil Fuels

Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

billion to help South Africa shift from its current dependence on fossil fuels for power generation toward a clean and renewable electricity system. billion to help South Africa shift from its current dependence on fossil fuels for power generation toward a clean and renewable electricity system.

2030

Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

Keeping wild spaces wild, stopping deforestation and restoring degraded land to protect biodiversity, boost food production and store carbon. Colombia adopted national strategies on the circular economy, electric mobility and low-carbon development. Making agriculture biodiversity positive. They are acting.

2020

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

target; The US-China bilateral declaration , including undertakings to cut emissions of methane and CO2, expand climate finance, and adopt other measures to pursue the Paris 1.5°C

Paris Agreement

A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

Coal extraction in Indonesia is done with open-pit mining, hence the deforestation,” says Syahrul Fitra, a senior forest campaigner at Greenpeace Southeast Asia. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019. The main destination for this coal was China, with 99.2

Deforestation

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Coal companies routinely walked away from gaping chasms in the land, polluted streams, and deforestation. In recent years, the closing of coal-power electric plants contributed to the deficit of the AML program. Spoiled lands and waters was the cost of doing business. The program never scaled up again to meet demand.

2008

Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Deforestation. The fewer sinks we have, the faster carbon emissions will accumulate in the atmosphere and it seems deforestation is increasing despite international efforts to slow it down and replace more trees than we are cutting down. Sponsored Content.

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Biodiesel and renewable diesel are closely related fuels made from the same oils and fats, which remain scarce, expensive, and linked to deforestation and food price spikes. A comparison with electric vehicles in instructive. Figure 1 above shows that palm oil itself is not a significant direct source of US biofuel production.

Biofuels

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Risks to such species include overhunting/overfishing or gathering, toxic waste, a changing environment, deforestation and so on. Sponsored Content. The idea was to conserve and to increase population numbers - a measure that has mixed success.

Government

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 28, 2023

These investments must address the most critical threats facing Canada’s fresh waters, including nuisance and toxic algae blooms, toxic chemical and plastic pollution, deforestation, and wetland loss. Helping more automakers invest in Canada to make more clean cars for more Canadians is a win-win for both the economy and the environment.

2023

Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Deforestation and environmental destruction are still a reality in many countries around the world. Solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power have become in recent years the cheapest sources of electricity and now account for 8 percent of global electricity. We need to stop deforestation of the Amazon and other tropical forests.

Deforestation

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 8, 2020

The central drama of Apocalypse Never is how climate activists and renewables advocates have diverted World Bank funding from cheap and reliable sources of power like hydro-electric dams, which would benefit the book’s main heroine, Bernadette, a small farmer in the Congo. Nuclear energy is that solution, Shellenberger has long advocated.”

Rainforest

Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

If a single cow produces enough methane to power a 100W incandescent light bulb (or eight efficient LED ones), the manure of the billion cows around the world could produce enough electricity to power an LED light bulb 24/7 for every human. This truly natural gas can be burnt as is to cook food, generate electricity and heat buildings.

Carbon Dioxide

Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Over the quarter of 2020, up to 47% of the electricity demand in the UK was met by renewable energy sources. One reason leading to this drastic measure was the insufficient power supplied by solar and wind altogether, which normally provides 30% of the overall electricity in the California State. Solar and wind.

Renewable Energy