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 ...
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 ...
How the rise and fall of CO2 levels influenced the ice ages
Jul 2, 2020 · Antarctic reconstructed air temperature (red line) at Dome Fuji site Antarctica using isotope modelling from Uemura et al (2018) and Antarctic composite ice core atmospheric CO2 data (blue line) from Bereiter et al (2014).Data spans the period from 800,000 BCE to 1980 CE. Chart by Carbon Brief using Highcharts.. While the CO2 concentrations provide a good representation of global average ...
Analysis: Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels hit record ...
Nov 11, 2022 · Total global CO2 emissions – including land use and fossil CO2 – increased by approximately 0.8% in 2022, driven by a combination of steady land-use emissions between 2021 and 2022 and increasing fossil CO2 emissions. However, total CO2 emissions remain below their highs set in 2019 and have been relatively flat since 2015.
Q&A: What does India's updated Paris Agreement pledge ...
Sep 14, 2022 · India’s 2030 pledge under the terms of the Paris Agreement is, technically, an update communicated to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) rather than a full second NDC. The four-page, 500-word update is sparse on detail and lacks a clear roadmap to 2030, nor sector-specific targets or finance requirements.
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 ...
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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: Why the recent 'acceleration' in global warming ...
Apr 4, 2024 · Chart by Carbon Brief. The chart shows how the warming rate of 0.18C per decade seen since 1970 has almost doubled to roughly 0.3C per decade over the past 15 years. Researchers have proposed a number of potential contributors to the increased rate of warming seen in recent years. One is the significant decline in global air pollution over the ...
Analysis: Why scientists think 100% of global warming is ...
Dec 13, 2017 · The extent of the human contribution to modern global warming is a hotly debated topic in political circles, particularly in the US. During a recent congressional hearing, Rick Perry, the US energy secretary, remarked that “to stand up and say that 100% of global warming is because of human activity, I think on its face, is just indefensible”. ...
Explainer: How 'Shared Socioeconomic Pathways' explore ...
Apr 19, 2018 · Narratives for each Shared Socioeconomic Pathway, from Riahi et al 2017.. These narratives describe alternative pathways for future society. They present baselines of how things would look in the absence of climate policy, and allow researchers to examine barriers and opportunities for climate mitigation and adaptation in each possible future world when combined with mitigation targets.