85% Of Global Companies Don’t Have Credible Plans To Reduce Corporate Flying Emissions
World’s largest companies fail to set targets on most climate intensive form of business travel – air travel
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Is Your State Eligible For A Climate Pollution Reduction Grant?
The comprehensive $370 billion climate and clean energy package inclusion with the IRA is beginning with grant applications for states, tribes, and territories
This Interactive Chart Shows Changes In The World’s Top 10 GHG Emitters
As countries implement their targets and policies and develop more detailed pathways to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it’s important to fully understand the global emissions picture and how it changes over time. Our Climate Watch interactive chart explores GHG emissions by country and economic sector1, and shows how top emitters have changed in recent years
Clean Energy 101: Methane-Detecting Satellites
Satellite “completeness” is a new and powerful concept in the push to slash climate pollution.
The Top 20 NREL Stories Of 2022
Throughout 2022, researchers, staff, and leadership at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) worked together with collaborators and partners to advance renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. As this busy year at NREL draws to a close, we look back at some of the laboratory’s … [continued]
Feeding This Seaweed To Cows Can Eliminate Their Methane Emissions
A farmer from Prince Edward Island, Canada, has found out that feeding his cattle seaweed could reduce greenhouse gases by up to 40%. Joe Dorgan is the founder of North Atlantics Organics, which produces and distributes organic seaweed. The seaweed near his farm was harvested for feed and fertilizer for … [continued]
It’s Just Got To Be BEV
Only 100% battery electric vehicles (BEVs) have the potential to create the deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector that the world needs to avoid catastrophic climate change. BEVs will become more efficacious as the grid gets greener around the globe. But what about hybrids, hydrogen fuel … [continued]
Governor Newsom Takes Action to Phase Out Oil Extraction in California (… Eventually)
California will work to end oil extraction as part of nation-leading effort to achieve carbon neutrality. Action will halt issuance of fracking permits by 2024.
How BlackRock & Vanguard Can Advance the Net-Zero Emissions Movement
Originally published on WRI’s Resource Institute Blog. By Giulia Christianson, Ariel Pinchot, and Yili Wu The movement to achieve net-zero global greenhouse gas emissions, is gaining traction and coherence, especially in the world of finance. In late March, BlackRock and Vanguard — the two largest asset managers on the planet — joined a growing … [continued]
3 Ways To Solve The Obscurity Of Net-Zero Emissions Targets
Net-zero emissions targets are all the rage, and typically this is a good thing, but in many cases, they are obscure. Some researchers who published a recent article in Nature took notice of this and presented three solutions to help make these targets seem less vague. First, a short recap … [continued]
