All items tagged with climate change and emission (11)

| "The transition to a low carbon economy is unstoppable." That was just one of a myriad of commentators welcoming the agreement reached at CO...

| The poorest 50% of the global population produce only 10% of lifestyle-related emissions worldwide. At the same time the poorest will be hit...

| In the past five years the European power market has seen a sharp drop in the utilization of gas-fired capacity, with renewables and coal ta...

| An interactive map compiling up-to-date information on the status and design of Emissions Trading Schemes around the world has been launched...

| Reports of the death of the EU Emissons Trading Scheme (ETS) have been greatly exaggerated. That was one of the key messages from European p...

| Twenty-one coherent major initiatives could together stimulate sufficient reductions by 2020 to bridge the global greenhouse-gas emissions g...

| While the ongoing debt crisis has absorbed European attention, another centrepiece of European economic integration is also seeing hard time...

by UNEP

| Cutting emissions by 2020 to a level that could keep a global, 21st century, temperature rise under 2 degrees C is technologically and econo...

| After a 1% decline in 2009, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased by more than 5% in 2010, which is unprecedented in the last two...

| There is growing doubt over whether the EU’s flagship climate policy instrument, its emissions trading scheme (ETS), will drive the green in...