This week, Greta Thunberg, the well known empowered climate activist from Northern Europe, continued her net-zero-emissions journey by returning home. Greta is working to educate the world. She spreads hope and addresses concerns. Avoiding the use of fossil fuels, she once again took to the seas rather than flying in order to reach Europe with her father.
The United States Energy Information Administration has published new numbers this week which show energy-related CO2 emissions for 2018 will increase by 3%, undermining its own fragile attempts to highlight 2017’s drop in CO2 emissions against the likely increase in 2018 emissions that has been evident throughout the year.
Numerous reports published this week have raised the specter that Donald Trump’s White House will move to exit the Paris Climate Agreement, or at the very least, downgrade the country’s commitment to the Agreement.
Originally Published on the ECOreport For the first time in forty years, the world’s C02 emissions have been held in check. Though they continue to rise in North America, China’s decreased for the first time in recorded history and Europe’s emissions decreased another 5% in 2014. EU’s CO2 Emissions Decreased … [continued]
Greenhouse gases trap heat from the sun and warm the planet’s surface. Of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, the majority are related to energy consumption, and most of those are carbon dioxide. From 1990 to 2011, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the United States increased by about 0.4% per year. … [continued]
