carbon emissions
No global carbon price? Some companies set their own
A growing list of global companies are setting a price or charging themselves for each metric ton of their carbon emissions, looking to shape their investments and business for future pollution taxes or other new climate rules.
#Perspective / Understanding climate change: Causes, effects, and solutions
Climate change is a phenomenon that impacts everyone on earth. Although some might think of climate change as something that will affect us in the future, it is an ongoing process and we are already seeing its effects. Ecosystems and people across the globe are being heavily impacted by it. Ever wondered why the weather has been going haywire recently? Or why more and more of the arctic region is melting away?
Surcharge likely on second car
Owners of more than one car are likely to face an environmental protection surcharge from the upcoming fiscal year as the government plans to discourage the use of vehicles in a bid to contain carbon emissions and air pollution.
Mangrove forests: Nature's frontier between life and loss
In the present era of climate change, mangrove ecosystems have been silently acting as our climate guardian
COP27: Bangladesh wants climate finance doubled by 2025
Bangladesh has demanded that developed countries double their collective provision of adaptation finance by 2025, as was agreed at COP26 in Glasgow last year, and provide support to vulnerable countries to implement the National Adaptation Plan (NAP).
We need a Global Summit on Inequality
The latest World Inequality Report shows tackling climate change and social injustice are part of a total political package.
Carbon footprint and you: slowing climate change starts at home
One of the factors contributing increasingly to a rise in climate change is a high carbon footprint. A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse emissions (such as carbon dioxide and methane gas) that are generated by our actions as we live our life.
US Democrats unveil carbon-neutral 'Green New Deal'
Congressional Democrats unveils an unprecedented plan to reverse climate change and eliminate all US carbon emissions within 10 years, by taking drastic steps that would require transformational action across the economy.
CO2 emissions on the rise for first time in four years: UN report
A new report released on Tuesday by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows that global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rise again during 2017 after a three year hiatus, highlighting the imperative for countries to deliver on the historic Paris Agreement to keep global warming to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, reports UN news.
Paris climate deal ‘more likely’
Nearly 150 global leaders are gathering in Paris on Sunday for a critical UN climate meeting, amid tight security.The conference, known as COP21, will attempt to craft a long-term deal to limit carbon emissions.
A healthy, climate-friendly diet
This December, world leaders will meet in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where they will hammer out a comprehensive agreement to reduce carbon emissions and stem global warming.
China readies national carbon market to fight climate change
A successful carbon offset, or "cap-and-trade," market could play a big part in cutting China's emissions -- and help the world tackle global warming.
