The Global Energy Perspective Reference Case provides our view on how the energy transition will unfold.
Energy systems around the world are going through rapid transitions that affect many aspects …
Up to a third of the plant life occupying the African savannah could be driven to extinction as CO2 is pumped into the atmosphere, scientists have warned.
A new study suggests that besides warming…
Swiss Post and Austrian Post announce move to fully electric fleets by 2030
Automakers urged to ramp up investment in electric vehicles as they gather at Geneva Motor Show
International…
New research finds the United States’ energy mix is rapidly decarbonizing largely due to economics, as coal-fired generation keeps retiring in favor of cheaper clean energy additions, but U.S.…
New analysis shows UK carbon emissions have fallen for the sixth consecutive year.
New data from Carbon Brief has found that carbon emissions in the UK have fallen for the sixth consecutive year,…
Marine permaculture technology that seeds the world’s oceans with kelp forests while pumping up colder, nutrient-rich waters from the ocean depths is one of the 20 carbon reduction options that…
The urgency and scope of the climate crisis are being needlessly exploited to drive fringe ideas like carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM) from the margins to the…
The failure to reverse growth in greenhouse gas emissions means the world is now increasingly dependent on unproven technologies to remove CO2 from the atmosphere in order to avert dangerous climate…
When delegates adopted the 2015 Paris Agreement to widespread cheers and excitement, it was clear that further details needed to be negotiated on how the agreement would be implemented transparently…
New research has found that electric cars are now cheaper to run compared to petrol and diesel alternatives.
The study, commissioned by the International Council for Clean Transportation (ICCT),…
Warren M. Washington, the father of climate modeling, and Michael E. Mann, who was vilified by fossil fuel companies and politicians for his work on climate change, have been awarded 2019 Tyler…
Drax has begun capturing carbon emissions from one of the four biomass units at its power station in Yorkshire.
The power station is using innovative technology, developed by the University of Leeds…
It dropped 6% in 2018 alone, and there's reason to believe the phase-out will accelerate.
We've been pretty vocal here at TreeHugger about the need to rapidly decarbonize our economies. Yet, in some…
Australia continues to blindly court local and multinational mining companies with one of the largest untapped thermal coal deposits in the world, despite the global pipeline of new coal-fired power…
The European Union needs to revise its 2030 CO2 reduction target from 40% to 55% if it wants to meet the 1.5°C global warming objective of the Paris Agreement, says Joyce Msuya.
The UK’s CO2 emissions peaked in the year 1973 and have declined by around 38% since 1990, faster than any other major developed country.
Here, Carbon Brief presents detailed analysis of the reasons…
The main greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change have all reached record levels, the UN’s meteorology experts have reported.
Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are now far above pre-…
New wind, solar and biomass power generation displaced hard coal last year – especially in Germany, France and the UK – according to a 2018 review of European electricity statistics by two leading…
According to a new report from Agora Energiewende and Sandbag, the EU solar market grew around 60%, or 10 GW, last year. The analysis also predicts that total solar demand across all EU PV markets…
Scientists are looking ahead to a “worrying” jump in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations this year, right on the heels of a report declaring 2018 the fourth-warmest year on record.