Tag: greenhouse gas emissions
EU Parliament’s environment committee votes to support 60% EU emissions cut by 2030
Lawmakers in European Parliament’s environment committee on Thursday voted in favour of a legally binding target for the European Union to cut its greenhouse gas…
Extreme droughts in central Europe likely to increase sevenfold
Extreme droughts are likely to become much more frequent across central Europe, and if global greenhouse gas emissions rise strongly they could happen seven times…
Rich Americans’ homes generate 25% more greenhouse gasses than those less affluent
The homes of wealthy Americans are major engines of the climate crisis, research has found, with the United States’ most affluent suburbs generating as much…
FAO and Rabobank’s new partnership focuses on helping make food systems more sustainable, including through innovative investments
FAO and Rabobank will work with key food and agriculture sectors on a series of projects designed to help lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, improve…
EU carbon market emissions fell 8.7% in 2019: EU Commission
Greenhouse gas emissions regulated under Europe’s carbon market fell by 8.7% last year, with a large fall from the power industry helping to offset a…
Poland could achieve climate neutrality by 2050, opposition says
Poland could cut its net emissions of greenhouse gases to zero by 2050 or earlier, achieving the major goal of the European Commission’s Green Deal,…
Coronavirus could trigger ‘largest ever annual fall in CO2’ in 2020, study suggests
But tentative analysis from Carbon Brief points out likely reduction in CO2 this year would still be far off goals of the Paris Agreement ….
Climate change: UK forests ‘could do more harm than good’
Badly-planned trees would increase greenhouse gas emissions, say the government’s advisers on the economic value of the natural environment. The report comes from the Natural…
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