emissions
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Swedish emissions dip in 2023 amid climate policy concerns
Jun 19, 2024The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency reported on Wednesday that the country’s greenhouse gas emissions decreased by two percent in 2023. This news came despite experts’ worries that the government’s climate policies may soon lead to a... -
German emissions are at 70-year low as coal use drops
Jan 5, 2024German emissions were at their lowest point in around 70 years, as Europe’s largest economy managed to reduce its dependence on coal faster than expected, a study published Thursday showed. Europe’s biggest economy emitted 673 million... -
Global food system could help achieve net negative emissions by 2050
Sep 7, 2023People may be able to reach net negative emissions by 2050 if significant improvements are made to the world food system, in addition to greenhouse gas emissions reductions. These results are reported in a new study... -
Global food system emissions imperil Paris climate goals
Mar 7, 2023According to current trends, the greenhouse gas emissions from the world’s food system will cause Earth’s surface temperatures to rise by nearly one degree Celsius by 2100, negating the climate goals of the Paris Agreement, experts... -
Animal health important for helping cut greenhouse gas emissions!
Jul 25, 2022In order for governments to be able to incorporate improving animal health in their national climate goals, more precise techniques to monitoring success are essential, a new analysis reveals. Improving animal health can help reduce greenhouse... -
Humanity’s emissions ‘100-times greater’ than volcanoes
Oct 1, 2019Human activity churns out up to 100 times more planet-warming carbon each year as all the volcanoes on Earth, says a decade-long study released Tuesday. The Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO), a 500-strong international team of scientists,... -
German prosecutors indict top Volkswagen bosses over emissions scandal
Sep 24, 2019German prosecutors are pressing criminal charges against the CEO, chairman, and a former CEO of Volkswagen saying they intentionally delayed telling investors about the carmaker’s cheating of U.S diesel emissions tests. Prosecutors in the city of... -
Alpine glaciers risk 90-percent melt by 2100
Apr 11, 2019Unchecked greenhouse gas emissions could see more than 90 percent of glaciers in the Alps disappear by the end of the century, scientists said Tuesday in new research. There are more than 4,000 glaciers — vast,... -
Carbon dioxide emissions up 2.7%
Dec 8, 2018Global emissions of carbon dioxide mainly from fossil fuel burning will rise 2.7 percent in 2018, scientists said Wednesday, signalling a world “completely off course” in the fight against climate change. Last year, CO2 pollution increased... -
Tourism nearly a tenth of global CO2 emissions
May 7, 2018Domestic and international tourism account for eight percent of greenhouse gas emissions, four times more than previously estimated, according to a study published Monday. The multi-trillion dollar industry’s carbon footprint is expanding rapidly, driven in large...