Global electricity review 2024
Renewables generated a record 30 percent of global electricity in 2023, driven by growth in solar and wind especially from China, according to the Global Electricity Review 2024 released by the global
Carbon Intensity
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CDP India 200 report 2011: accelerating low carbon growth
In the face of climate change adversities, which can be an impediment to the sustainable growth of economy, India can benefit from a low carbon growth trajectory to achieve its objectives for economic
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Who’s holding us back?: how carbon-intensive industry is preventing effective climate legislation
The corporations most responsible for contributing to climate change emissions and profiting from those activities are campaigning to increase their access to international negotiations and, at the same
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Designing climate finance to enhance low-carbon investment through local intermediaries
Investment in low carbon technologies has been growing over the past few years. However, in order to replace conventional high energy/high carbon intensity technologies with low carbon ones and reduce
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Transport, trade and climate change: carbon footprints, fuel subsidies and market-based measures
The objective of this paper is to examine the viability and potential effects of different actions that Germany and the European Union (EU) can take to curb the growth of GHG emissions from the international
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CO2 emissions from fuel combustion: highlights
This annual IEA report contains estimates of CO2 emissions by country from 1971 to 2009, selected indicators such as CO2/GDP, CO2/capita, CO2/TPES and CO2/kWh & CO2 emissions from international marine and aviation bunkers.
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Governing clean energy in India
This paper looks at the ways in which clean energy is being governed in India. It analyses and seeks to explain the nature of governance arrangements and policy-making processes around the development
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Climate Sense: India is right to insist that developed countries peak their emissions
India has called upon developed nations to walk the talk on climate change and peak their emissions that cause global warming. In parallel, we need to rev up thermal efficiency in our power plants, boost
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Ministry sets up new climate change finance unit
A new climate change finance unit has been set up under the aegis of the Finance Ministry, Dr Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Advisor to the Finance Ministry, said here today. The idea behind setting up
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China Needs Absolute CO2 Cap To Meet Market Plans: Researchers
China needs to set absolute restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions if it is to fulfill its aim to set up a carbon market over the next five years, a cabinet office think tank said in a paper published
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Unburnable carbon: are the world’s financial markets carrying a carbon bubble?
This research provides the evidence base which confirms what we have long suspected – that there are more fossil fuels listed on the world’s capital markets than we can afford to burn if we are to prevent