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Nov 4, 2024 · This week in data: China’s CO2 emissions stayed at, or just below, last year’s levels in the third quarter of 2024, after a fall in the second quarter. This leaves open the possibility that China’s emissions could fall this year. However, recent record-high temperatures caused emissions to go up in September and new government stimulus ...
Factcheck: How electric vehicles help to tackle climate change
May 13, 2019 · Other recent studies of electric cars in Germany have reached the opposite conclusion. One study found that emissions from EVs have emissions up to 43% lower than diesel vehicles. Another detailed that “in all cases examined, electric cars have lower lifetime climate impacts than those with internal combustion engines”.
Analysis: UK electricity from fossil fuels drops to lowest level since ...
Jan 3, 2024 · The amount of UK electricity generated from fossil fuels fell 22% year-on-year in 2023 to the lowest level since 1957, Carbon Brief analysis reveals. The 104 terawatt hours (TWh) generated from fossil fuels in 2023 is the lowest level in 66 years. Back then, Harold Macmillan was the UK prime minister and the Beatles’ John Lennon and Paul ...
Explainer: Desertification and the role of climate change - Carbon …
Aug 6, 2019 · Explainers Explainer: ‘Desertification’ and the role of climate change. Desertification has been described as “ the greatest environmental challenge of our time ” and climate change is making it worse. While the term may bring to mind the windswept sand dunes of the Sahara or the vast salt pans of the Kalahari, it’s an issue that ...
Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate ...
Oct 5, 2021 · Historical responsibility for climate change is at the heart of debates over climate justice.. History matters because the cumulative amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted since the start of the industrial revolution is closely tied to the 1.2C of warming that has already occurred.. In total, humans have pumped around 2,500bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2) into the atmosphere since 1850, leaving less ...
Land-use change has affected ‘almost a third’ of world’s terrain …
May 11, 2021 · Current estimates of land-use change may be capturing only one-quarter of its true extent across the world, new research shows. The paper, published in Nature Communications, revises previous estimates of how much humans change the Earth’s land surface – such as via the destruction of tropical rainforests.It finds that, when accounting for multiple instances of change in the same place ...
Ocean acidification: Decline of Great Barrier Reef likely to be worse ...
Feb 23, 2016 · A new approach. Scientists predict that if CO 2 emissions stay as high as they are, the pH in the surface oceans could fall a further 0.2-0.4 units by the end of the century.. To understand what this means for coral reefs, scientists next need to know how much aragonite there is in the seawater where the corals are found.
Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the …
Aug 4, 2022 · Carbon Brief’s analysis reveals: 71% of the 504 extreme weather events and trends included in the map were found to be made more likely or more severe by human-caused climate change. 9% of events or trends were made less likely or less severe by climate change, meaning 80% of all events experienced some human impact.
Mapped: Climate change laws around the world - Carbon Brief
May 11, 2017 · In 1997, the database shows, there were just 60 laws in place, with the figure having risen 20-fold to reach 1,260 today. During that time, the stock of climate laws has doubled every four or five years. Climate change laws around the world. Legislative laws are passed by parliaments, whereas executive laws or policies are enacted by governments.
Analysis: How well have climate models projected global warming?
Oct 5, 2017 · Scenario B assumed a gradual slowdown in CO2 emissions, but had concentrations of 401ppm in 2016 that were pretty close to the 404ppm observed.However, scenario B assumed the continued growth of emissions of various halocarbons that are powerful greenhouse gases, but were subsequently restricted under the Montreal Protocol of 1987. Scenario C had emissions going to near-zero after the year 2000.