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Study Finds Limiting Renewable Energy Growth Would Result In Higher U.S. Power Costs
With declining costs for renewable energy technologies, interest has turned to how that might translate into the total system costs of integrating more renewable energy on the U.S. grid.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory...
What is “Nature Positive” and Why is it the Key to our Future?
G7 leaders recently announced that “our world must not only become net zero, but also nature positive, for the benefit of both people and the planet.”
This represents a real paradigm shift in...
Bees, Bans and Broad-Spectrum Pesticides
Bees and other pollinators are increasingly under threat from human activities. To raise awareness of the importance of pollinators and their contribution to sustainable development, the UN marks May 20 as World...
Charge&GO platform
According to the International Council for Clean Transport (ICCT), road traffic accounts for about 20 per cent of global pollution. Air pollution has become a universal problem, and a growing number of...
Pacific Islands Unite Around Enhanced Renewables Ambition Under Climate Goals
In a year of critical action on climate mitigation and adaptation, Pacific Island governments have reinforced their commitment to energy transition action and strengthened sustainable energy goals within updated nationally determined contributions...
UN Environment Assembly Concludes With an Urgent Call For Action to Solve Planetary Emergencies
Ministers of environment and other leaders from more than 150 nations today concluded a two-day online meeting of the Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in which the Assembly warned that the...
Glacier Collapse in India a Worrying Sign of What’s to Come
A deadly flood in northern India, sparked by a cratering glacier, was not an isolated incident but the result of a rapidly warming planet, say experts. They warn the disaster, which has...
Alarming Rise in Global Temperatures
The past six years have been the warmest on record since 1880, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 being the top three, according to a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) press release on 15 January....
World Leaders Set for Pivotal Environmental Assembly
In February 2021, representatives of the 193 Member States of the UN, businesses leaders, civil society and environmentalists from around the world will come together virtually for the fifth session of the...
Measuring the Extent and Condition of European Ecosystems
Protecting ecosystems and biodiversity are key policy targets in the EU’s biodiversity strategy for 2030 and the European Green Deal. EU and national policymaking require approaches to be developed to measure the...
Serving up Sustainable Food
Along with a vow to return to exercise, upping personal intake of fruit and vegetables tops the list of New Year’s resolutions for many. But what if this year’s resolution didn’t end...
The Plan To Map Every Coral Reef on Earth – From Space
In October 2020, Australian scientists found a detached coral reef skyscraper on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef—nearly 500 meters tall and 1.5 kilometres wide — that exceeds the height of the Eiffel Tower...
Transforming Agri-Food Systems to Feed the World and Tackle Climate Change
Feeding the world's growing population while limiting the impacts of climate change will require urgent and radical transformation of our agri-food systems, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said at a High-Level event commemorating...
Climate Action in Europe: EU ETS Emissions See Big Drop in 2019, Latest EEA Assessment Shows
Greenhouse gas emissions from stationary installations covered by the European Union’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) dropped by 9.1 percent in 2019 from 2018 levels, the largest drop in a decade, according to...
Climate Ambition Summit Pledges More Action
At a Climate Ambition Summit on 12 December, 75 leaders from all over the world unveiled new commitments and concrete plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to tackle ever-increasing climate change indicators...
EU on Track to Meet Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Renewable Energy 2020 Targets
The EEA report ‘Trends and projections in Europe 2020’ tracks progress the EU’s 27 Member States (plus the United Kingdom) are making towards Europe’s climate and energy targets. The analysis is based...
