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Looking back at top moments for the environment in 2023

The last year has been a hard one for the planet. The Earth sweltered under record heat, nature continued its precipitous decline and pollution continued to claim millions of lives. But amid all...

Arctic Report Card documents evidence of accelerating climate change

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric has issued its annual Arctic Report Card. It documents new evidence that warming of the air, ocean and land is affecting people, ecosystems and communities across...

Strong policy progress on energy efficiency seen in 2023

Policy makers around the world expanded measures to promote energy efficiency in 2023, helping consumers save money and improving the security and sustainability of the global energy system – though progress is...

The oil and gas industry faces a moment of truth and an opportunity to adapt

Oil and gas producers face pivotal choices about their role in the global energy system amid a worsening climate crisis fuelled in large part by their core products, according to a major...

Greenhouse Gas concentrations hit record high. Again.

The abundance of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere once again reached a new record last year and there is no end in sight to the rising trend, according to a new...

Clean technologies are driving job growth in the energy sector, but skills shortages are an increasing concern

The number of jobs in the global energy sector rose in 2022 as growing investment in clean energy technologies drove demand for new workers in every region of the world, according to...

DEVELOPING ELECTROMOBILITY AS VOLVO’S PRIORITY

Modern society is completely reliant on transport modes that cover long distances in a short time. Considering that traffic represents one of the most important sources of environmental pollution, it is not...

Open Science Conference: We need dramatic climate action to meet unprecedented challenges

Climate change impacts are becoming increasingly severe, posing unprecedented challenges. Dramatic climate action is needed to limit global warming, requiring unprecedented societal transformations to sustain the future of life on Earth, a...

How technology can make the climate crisis accessible, undeniable and actionable

We’ve all seen haunting images of receding glaciers, but how many of us have ventured into their melting heartlands, felt the ancient ice slipping away or heard the roar as it cascaded...

WHY SHOULD WE ALL USE SOLAR ENERGY

We are all witnesses that the climate is changing faster and that global warming threatens the very survival of the planet and all its inhabitants. Research confirms that humans are to blame...

How India’s climate leadership is building a better future for all

India is poised to be a global leader when it comes to economy, technology and trade. Now, it has an opportunity to seize the moment and help the world address climate change...

Three conditions that will help scale blended finance for nature-positive outcomes

“There is no pathway to limiting global warming to 1.5C without action on protecting and restoring nature,” wrote four architects of the Paris Agreement ahead of the COP15 UN biodiversity conference last December. “Achieving...

WHO CAN PREVENT AN ECO-CATASTROPHE?

If we were not worried about the snow we had in April instead of December, perhaps we should be worried about the results of the index developed by the American University of...

PRODUCTIVITY AND A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE THE ABB WAY

Numerous measuring instruments, sensors, actuators, electronic transmitters and other devices hidden in the depths of a plant constantly record data on the flow of air, gas, water or thermal energy. With the...

CO2 emissions from EU territorial energy use: -2.8 percent

According to Eurostat estimates, in 2022, the EU carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel combustion (oil and oil products, natural gas, coal and peat) for energy use in the EU territory...

It’s time for governments and industry to act on energy efficiency

Amid a global energy crisis, policy makers, industry executives and consumers are all talking about how to bring down the cost of energy and reinforce security of supply. Often that conversation focuses...

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