Economical activities in many isolated communities or islands are limited to fishing and small-scale agriculture. While many of these islands have more opportunities, which cannot be exploited due to lack of electricity during the day. Many of these island’s pristine beaches are also attractive for tourism but the potential cannot be developed for lack of...Continue Reading

Climate action: At the Summit, EU and Chinese leaders reaffirmed their commitment to implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and, as major energy consumers and importers, highlighted the importance of fostering cooperation in their energy policies. At the joint press conference following the Summit, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker said: “As...Continue Reading

The global community has made remarkable progress in driving down the costs and increasing the use of key clean energy options. However, these impressive gains are still insufficient to meet our long-term climate goals while providing affordable, reliable, and secure energy supplies. source: mission innovationContinue Reading

This gure shows worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and several uorinated gases from 1990 to 2010. For consistency, emissions are expressed in million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents. These totals include emissions and sinks due to land-use change and forestry.   Data sources: WRI, 2014; FAO, 2014 * HFCs are hydrofluorocarbons,...Continue Reading

Let’s think of carbon on its own terms. Let’s define the circumstance the carbon finds itself in. Okay, if I burn carbon and I release it into the atmosphere, I call it fugitive. It’s escaped. You don’t want to do more of that. In the case of plastic, it’s a form of carbon that’s often...Continue Reading

Researchers have reconstructed atmospheric carbon dioxide levels over the past 2.1 million years in the sharpest detail yet, shedding new light on its role in the earth’s cycles of cooling and warming. The low carbon dioxide levels outlined by the study through the last 2.1 million years make modern day levels, caused by industrialization, seem...Continue Reading

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities. In 2014, CO2 accounted for about 80.9% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. Carbon dioxide is naturally present in the atmosphere as part of the Earth’s carbon cycle (the natural circulation of carbon among the atmosphere, oceans, soil, plants, and animals)....Continue Reading

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