U.S. emissions stagnate in 2024, challenging climate goals: study
2 months, 2 weeks ago

U.S. emissions stagnate in 2024, challenging climate goals: study

Raw Story  

U.S. greenhouse gas emissions barely decreased in 2024, leaving the world's largest economy off track to achieve its climate goals, according to an analysis released Thursday, as the incoming Trump administration looks set to double down on fossil fuels. Study co-author Ben King told AFP the small drop came despite the US economy expanding last year by 2.7 percent, "a continuation of a trend that we've seen where there's a decoupling between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions." "To meet its Paris Agreement target of a 50-52 percent reduction in emissions by 2030, the US must sustain an ambitious 7.6 percent annual drop in emissions from 2025 to 2030," the report said -- an unprecedented pace outside of a recession. "Simply flatlining emissions puts the United States even farther off track from meeting its climate commitments," warned Debbie Weyl, US Acting Director for the World Resources Institute.

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Greenhouse gas emissions go down slightly, but targets way off
1 week, 4 days ago

Greenhouse gas emissions go down slightly, but targets way off

Dutch News  

Dutch industry and households managed to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases by 1.6% last year compared with 2023, but this is far lower than the 7% drop recorded in the two previous years. Last year, the government’s environmental assessment agency PBL said the Netherlands is extremely unlikely to achieve its climate targets, and the likelihood is becoming more remote …

Climate pact withdrawal breaks trust in US
2 months ago

Climate pact withdrawal breaks trust in US

China Daily  

This year will see countries finalize their national plans to meet their emissions reduction targets by 2035, the focus of this November's COP30 global climate talks in Brazil. The United States' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement that the new US administration announced on Monday shortly after President Donald Trump began his second term has therefore undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow …

Trump signs executive order directing U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement — again
2 months ago

Trump signs executive order directing U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement — again

The Hindu  

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday directing the United States to again withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement, dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the U.S. from its closest allies. Trump’s order says the Paris accord is among a number of international agreements that don’t reflect U.S. values and …

Earth crossed this climate milestone in 2024. Effects will be visible in 2025
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2 months, 1 week ago

Earth crossed this climate milestone in 2024. Effects will be visible in 2025

India Today  

The world has officially crossed a significant climate milestone, with 2024 becoming the first full year in which global temperatures exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. This alarming revelation was confirmed by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service on January 10, 2025, highlighting the urgent need for action against climate change. The rising greenhouse gas emissions are propelling …

US gas-fired power boom reveals key emissions payoff in 2024: Maguire
2 months, 2 weeks ago

US gas-fired power boom reveals key emissions payoff in 2024: Maguire

Live Mint  

By Gavin Maguire LITTLETON, Colorado, Jan 8 - For the first time, over 1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide was discharged from U.S. gas-fired power stations in a single year during 2024, marking a new pollution threshold for the world's largest gas producer and consumer. And as U.S. coal plants discharge 77% more CO2 per unit of electricity than …

2024 on its way to being the hottest year ever, break record set in 2023
3 months, 2 weeks ago

2024 on its way to being the hottest year ever, break record set in 2023

India Today  

2024 is set to become the hottest year on record, with global temperatures expected to remain elevated into early 2025. This alarming prediction from European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service follows a series of extreme weather events worldwide, including severe droughts, floods, and heatwaves that have wreaked havoc across multiple continents. C3S reported that from January to November 2024, average …

Renewable surge in 2023 fails to curb worldwide emissions: Report
4 months ago

Renewable surge in 2023 fails to curb worldwide emissions: Report

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The world witnessed rapid progress in the renewable energy sector in 2023, but the slow speed of reductions in global emissions rendered it ineffective, a new report released at COP29 in Baku has highlighted. India ranked 10th, a drop from seventh last year, in the analysis — Climate Change Performance Index co-authored by Germanwatch, NewClimate Institute, and CAN …

Amid Earth’s heat records, scientists report another bump upward in annual carbon emissions
4 months, 1 week ago

Amid Earth’s heat records, scientists report another bump upward in annual carbon emissions

Associated Press  

BAKU, Azerbaijan — Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year. Many analysts had been hoping that China — by far the world’s biggest annual carbon polluting nation with 32% of the emissions — would have peaked its …

Global CO2 emissions to hit record high in 2024, report says
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4 months, 1 week ago

Global CO2 emissions to hit record high in 2024, report says

Hindustan Times  

* Global CO2 emissions to hit record high in 2024, report says Emissions from fossil fuels to rise nearly 1% to 37.4 bln T * Severe wildfires fuel 13.5% surge in land-use emissions * Emissions decrease in rich nations, rise in emerging economies * Without urgent action, global climate goals out of reach By Kate Abnett BAKU, - Global carbon …

COP29: Planet-heating pollution to hit all-time high, dashing hopes it would start to drop in 2024
4 months, 1 week ago

COP29: Planet-heating pollution to hit all-time high, dashing hopes it would start to drop in 2024

CNN  

CNN — Global levels of planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels will hit record levels this year, according to new projections, dashing hopes 2024 would be the year they plateau or fall. “The impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly dramatic, yet we still see no sign that burning of fossil fuels has peaked,” said Pierre Friedlingstein, a climate professor at …

Carbon Budget predicts the world falls 'frustratingly' short as emissions rise in 2024
4 months, 1 week ago

Carbon Budget predicts the world falls 'frustratingly' short as emissions rise in 2024

ABC  

Global emissions look set to rise in 2024, hitting new records, despite the staggering growth of renewable energy around the world. It's important to point out that the report's range of projections dip to –0.3 per cent, so there is still the chance the final numbers could see the world's emissions go down slightly. Gas emissions are projected to increase …

World nears 1.5°C warming threshold, carbon budget dwindling
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4 months, 1 week ago

World nears 1.5°C warming threshold, carbon budget dwindling

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The world will exhaust in about six years, the remaining carbon budget before the 1.5 degrees C warming threshold is breached consistently, the Global Carbon Project’s science team has projected. The carbon budget is the amount of carbon dioxide emissions that will result in limiting global warming to a given level, in this case, the Paris accord’s target …

A shadow ‘financial crisis’ has cost the world $2 trillion
4 months, 1 week ago

A shadow ‘financial crisis’ has cost the world $2 trillion

CNN  

CNN — Last month, two major storms, Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, caused a total of between $51.5 billion and $81.5 billion of property damage, mostly to Southeastern US states, according to estimates from CoreLogic. The report from the International Chamber of Commerce, which comes as the United Nations Climate Change Conference begins in Azerbaijan this week, estimated that the …

Earth on track for hottest year in recorded history, passing critical 1.5º warming threshold
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Earth on track for hottest year in recorded history, passing critical 1.5º warming threshold

Salon  

The Copernicus Climate Change Service, a European Union organization that monitors global heating, announced on Thursday that the year 2024 will be 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels. "This marks a new milestone in global temperature records and should serve as a catalyst to raise ambition for the upcoming Climate Change Conference, COP29.” "This latest record sends another stark …

The world is “miles short” of its target to limit climate change, UN reports
4 months, 3 weeks ago

The world is “miles short” of its target to limit climate change, UN reports

Salon  

For the world to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the 200 countries who signed the Paris climate agreement must hit a target of 43% reduction by 2030. Yet according to a recent report by the United Nations agency tasked with tackling global warming, the planet is currently on track to just hit a measly 2.6% reduction in carbon emissions. …

Climate change could slash global income by 19%
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Climate change could slash global income by 19%

New Indian Express  

VIZAG: The global economy cannot avoid a reduction in its income by 2025 irrespective of how it deals with future emissions, a recent study has established. This reduction is six times larger than the costs required to limit global warming to 2°C under the Paris Climate Agreement, the study published in the journal Nature said. But it arises owing to …

Countries’ carbon removal plans not enough for 1.5C warming limit, study warns
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Countries’ carbon removal plans not enough for 1.5C warming limit, study warns

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Scientists have taken the UN’s approach of assessing the “emissions gap” between national climate protection plans and what is …

UK emissions fall to new low as high energy prices see households cut back
11 months, 3 weeks ago

UK emissions fall to new low as high energy prices see households cut back

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions fell …

California unlikely to meet landmark goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
1 year ago

California unlikely to meet landmark goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions

LA Times  

Wind turbines rise above an array of solar panels at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Tree Wind Farm and Solar Power Plant in Kern County’s Tehachapi Mountains. California has long been a leader in emissions control, and the new report has faced pushback from state officials who say they are much further along in hitting the goals …

Greenhouse gas emissions fell to their lowest level since Victorian times last year, analysis finds
1 year ago

Greenhouse gas emissions fell to their lowest level since Victorian times last year, analysis finds

Daily Mail  

The UK's greenhouse gas emissions fell last year to the lowest level since 1879 - when Queen Victoria was on the throne and Benjamin Disraeli was prime minister. Greenhouse gas emissions fell by 5.7 per cent in 2023, according to analysis of official figures by the website Carbon Brief. The UK's greenhouse gas emissions fell to their lowest levels since …

How A Second Trump Presidency Would Impact Climate
1 year ago

How A Second Trump Presidency Would Impact Climate

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A win for Donald Trump in the November presidential election could increase the United States’ planet-heating pollution by so much that the emissions would negate the last five years of global progress on deploying clean energy — twice over. The climate science journal’s new report found that the Republican candidate’s plans to reverse the Biden administration’s energy …

Carbon pollution is down in the US, but not fast enough to meet Biden’s 2030 goal, new report says
1 year, 2 months ago

Carbon pollution is down in the US, but not fast enough to meet Biden’s 2030 goal, new report says

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Climate-altering pollution from greenhouse gases declined by nearly 2% in the United States in 2023, even as the economy expanded at a faster clip, a new report finds. The decline, while “a step in the right direction,’' is far below the rate needed to meet President Joe Biden’s pledge to cut U.S. emissions in half by 2030, compared …

Germany’s CO2 emissions are at their lowest in 7 decades, study shows
1 year, 2 months ago

Germany’s CO2 emissions are at their lowest in 7 decades, study shows

Associated Press  

BERLIN — Carbon dioxide emissions in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, dropped to their lowest level in seven decades as the use of coal declined unexpectedly sharply in 2023 and economic pressures weighed down production by energy-intensive industry, according to a study released Thursday. The Agora Energiewende think tank said its preliminary calculations show that Germany emitted 673 million metric tons …

UK hailed as ‘world leader in tackling climate change’ as first G20 nation to halve carbon emissions
1 year, 2 months ago

UK hailed as ‘world leader in tackling climate change’ as first G20 nation to halve carbon emissions

The Telegraph  

Ms Coutinho shared an analysis of the data in a blog post from The Spectator magazine which first highlighted the figures. “That’s why it’s so important we make sure we’re not burdening hard-working families, but bringing them with us as we continue on our transition to net zero.” According to the data, the UK first reached the milestone of halving …

World coal consumption to decline next year after record high in 2023: IEA
1 year, 3 months ago

World coal consumption to decline next year after record high in 2023: IEA

New Indian Express  

PARIS: World coal consumption should start declining next year after peaking in 2023, the International Energy Agency said on Friday. The IEA's latest forecast came after nearly 200 countries at the COP28 UN climate talks adopted a deal stating that the world will be "transitioning away from fossil fuels" to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 and limit global warming. Scientists …

World carbon dioxide emissions increase again, driven by China, India and aviation
1 year, 3 months ago

World carbon dioxide emissions increase again, driven by China, India and aviation

Associated Press  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The world this year pumped 1.1% more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than last year because of increased pollution from China and India, a team of scientists reported. If China and India were excluded from the count, world carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and cement manufacturing would have dropped, Friedlingstein …

World carbon dioxide emissions increase again, driven by China, India and aviation
1 year, 3 months ago

World carbon dioxide emissions increase again, driven by China, India and aviation

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. If China and India were excluded from the count, …

Emissions Gap report: ‘World to warm by nearly 3°C without aggressive action’
1 year, 4 months ago

Emissions Gap report: ‘World to warm by nearly 3°C without aggressive action’

The Hindu  

Countries’ current emissions pledges to limit climate change would still put the world on track to warm by nearly 3 degrees Celsius this century, according to a United Nations analysis released on November 20, 2023. The annual Emissions Gap report, which assesses countries’ promises to tackle climate change compared with what is needed, finds the world faces between 2.5°C and …

UN says greenhouse gases in atmosphere hit record high in 2022
1 year, 4 months ago

UN says greenhouse gases in atmosphere hit record high in 2022

Al Jazeera  

Leader of UN’s meteorological agency says the world is still ‘heading in the wrong direction’ and must cut use of fossil fuels. The United Nations says the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere surged to new highs last year as climate change fuelled extreme weather across the globe. In a bulletin released on Wednesday, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization …

World failing to get a grip on the climate crisis, says UN chief on new report
1 year, 4 months ago

World failing to get a grip on the climate crisis, says UN chief on new report

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: Even if nations meet all of their current climate commitments, submitted as nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement, the 1.5 degrees C global warming threshold will be breached, a new UN report said on Tuesday. FILE The world is off track in its efforts to curb global warming, a new international report calculates The report flagged that …

World severely off track to limit planet-heating emissions: U.N.
1 year, 4 months ago

World severely off track to limit planet-heating emissions: U.N.

The Hindu  

The world is “failing to get a grip” on climate change, the U.N. warned on November 14, as an assessment of current climate pledges shows only minor progress on reducing emissions this decade. In a report released just weeks before high-stakes climate negotiations, the United Nations climate change organisation said the world was failing to act with sufficient urgency to …

‘Every bit matters’: Six key takeaways from the latest U.S. climate report
1 year, 4 months ago

‘Every bit matters’: Six key takeaways from the latest U.S. climate report

LA Times  

The dire effects of human-caused climate change are worsening and they threaten to bring more extreme heat waves, droughts, floods and wildfires unless urgent actions are taken, scientists warned in a major national report. Efforts to adapt to climate change and curb the burning of fossil fuels have expanded since the last assessment was issued in 2018, the report says, …

The world is planning to blow the fossil fuels production limit that would keep a lid on global heating, report says
1 year, 4 months ago

The world is planning to blow the fossil fuels production limit that would keep a lid on global heating, report says

CNN  

CNN — Global fossil fuel production in 2030 is set to be more than double the levels that are deemed consistent with meeting climate goals set under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, the United Nations and researchers said on Wednesday. The United Nations Environment Programme’s report, assessing the gap in fossil fuel production cuts and what’s needed to meet climate …

Countries asked to slash cooling emissions by 68% by 2050
1 year, 5 months ago

Countries asked to slash cooling emissions by 68% by 2050

The Hindu  

With climate warming leading to more air conditioning use worldwide, dozens of countries including China, India and the United States are being asked to commit to a global pledge that would require at least a 68% reduction in cooling-related emissions by 2050, sources told Reuters. The pledge, which would mark the world's first collective focus on energy emissions from the …

How the UK’s net zero pledges compare to other decarbonising countries
1 year, 6 months ago

How the UK’s net zero pledges compare to other decarbonising countries

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. More than 70 countries including the UK, US, EU and China have targets to …

Germany’s climate effort to lag below 2030 targets, say experts
1 year, 7 months ago

Germany’s climate effort to lag below 2030 targets, say experts

Al Jazeera  

Germany aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 65 percent by 2030, on the road to greenhouse gas neutral by 2045. Germany’s greenhouse emissions gap will likely be more extensive than government estimates in 2030, even if reduction measures are fully implemented, a group of climate experts said. Berlin aims to cut its carbon dioxide emissions by 65 percent by …

Leveraging nuclear energy to tackle climate hazards
1 year, 7 months ago

Leveraging nuclear energy to tackle climate hazards

Hindustan Times  

The realm of the climate crisis is often overlooked in international relations as more direct forms of conflict--such as the ones over sovereign borders are thought to lead to destruction of humanity and in turn of nation states. In fact, in the last 50 years, the usage of nuclear power has reduced carbon dioxide emissions by over 60 gigatonnes, which …

EU told to slash greenhouse gas emissions 90-95% by 2040
1 year, 9 months ago

EU told to slash greenhouse gas emissions 90-95% by 2040

India Today  

The European Union should commit to slash its net greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 95% by 2040, official advisers said on Thursday, as Brussels prepares a new goal to curb Europe's contribution to climate change. The European Commission is drafting what would be the EU's first legally binding emissions-cutting target for 2040, aimed at guiding the world's third-biggest …

Germany says climate measures will narrow but not fully close the country’s emissions gap by 2030
1 year, 9 months ago

Germany says climate measures will narrow but not fully close the country’s emissions gap by 2030

Associated Press  

BERLIN — An array of climate measures being introduced by Germany’s government will bring the country closer but not all the way toward meeting its national goals for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, officials said Wednesday. Germany’s Climate Ministry said that measures already in place or soon to become law will reduce emissions by about 900 million metric tons …

Temperature rising by 1.5C likely in near term unless world acts now, UN says
2 years ago

Temperature rising by 1.5C likely in near term unless world acts now, UN says

Live Mint  

The report published today by the world’s leading climate science body, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, summarizes the panel’s output over the past five years, amounting to some 10,000 pages of dense scientific prose. “This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every timeframe,” said UN Secretary …

Cut emissions quickly to save lives, scientists warn in a new U.N. report
2 years ago

Cut emissions quickly to save lives, scientists warn in a new U.N. report

NPR  

Cut emissions quickly to save lives, scientists warn in a new U.N. report Enlarge this image toggle caption Thoko Chikondi/AP Thoko Chikondi/AP The planet is on track for catastrophic warming, but world leaders already have many options to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and protect people, according to a major new climate change report from the United Nations. A cheat-sheet for …

War, transport weigh on Germany’s efforts to curb emissions
2 years ago

War, transport weigh on Germany’s efforts to curb emissions

Associated Press  

BERLIN — Germany cut its greenhouse gas emissions by almost 2% last year, beating previous estimates but still falling far short of the cuts needed to meet its medium-term climate goals, officials said Wednesday. But the cut in Russian fossil fuel supplies also prompted the German government to reactivate shuttered coal and oil power plants, pushing up emissions in the …

US emissions rose in 2022. Here’s why that’s not as bad as it sounds
2 years, 2 months ago

US emissions rose in 2022. Here’s why that’s not as bad as it sounds

Salon  

A new report from the Rhodium Group, a research firm that models greenhouse gas emissions, brings good news and bad news. First, the bad: U.S. emissions increased by just over 1 percent last year, making 2022 the second consecutive year of carbon emissions growth since the American economy began recovering from the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The drop …

Billion pound spending gap as government spends less on UK emission cuts than it raises in carbon tax
2 years, 3 months ago

Billion pound spending gap as government spends less on UK emission cuts than it raises in carbon tax

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The government is spending a billion pounds less on cutting domestic emissions than it is …

Groups ask EU to drop carbon removal from climate plans
2 years, 3 months ago

Groups ask EU to drop carbon removal from climate plans

Associated Press  

BERLIN — Scores of environmental groups issued a joint appeal Monday for the European Union to drop carbon removal methods from its climate plans, arguing that some of them rely on untested technology while others may not absorb as many greenhouse gas emissions as claimed. The EU’s executive Commission has proposed creating a system for certifying so-called offsets — carbon …

CO2 pollution from fossil fuels to hit all-time high this year
2 years, 4 months ago

CO2 pollution from fossil fuels to hit all-time high this year

Al Jazeera  

Aviation industry identified as a leading contributor to the rise in emissions as it recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change, are on track to rise one percent in 2022 to reach an all-time high, according to scientists. Global CO2 emissions from all sources, including deforestation, will reach 40.6 billion …

World Falters in Containing Climate Crisis: Negotiators Head to Egypt for COP27
2 years, 4 months ago

World Falters in Containing Climate Crisis: Negotiators Head to Egypt for COP27

The Quint  

Although countries are slowly bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions, the efforts are woefully insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees by the end of the century, according to the 2022 NDC Synthesis Report published on October 26 by UN Climate Change, the agency that hosts the climate summit. “We are still nowhere near the scale …

Dutch government will miss climate targets even with new plans: Planning office
2 years, 4 months ago

Dutch government will miss climate targets even with new plans: Planning office

NL Times  

Even with its newly announced climate plans, the Dutch Cabinet will not achieve the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030. The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency has calculated that with its additional plans, emissions will be reduced by between 41 and 52 percent compared to 1990 levels. The planning office did not include measures where researchers …

U.N. Report: Climate Pollution Reductions 'Highly Inadequate'
2 years, 4 months ago

U.N. Report: Climate Pollution Reductions 'Highly Inadequate'

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The world, especially richer carbon polluting nations, remains “far behind” and is not doing nearly enough ― not even promising to do enough ― to reach any of the global goals limiting future warming, a United Nations report said. “The report confirms the utterly glacial pace of climate action, despite the looming precipice of climate tipping points …

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