Mexico is the second country in the world to have to have instituted legally binding targets on GHG emission reductions. The law mandates a reduction in CO2 emissions by 30% below business-as-usual levels by 2020, and by 50% below...
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the 17th annual U.S. greenhouse gas inventory. The final report shows overall emissions in 2010 increased by 3.2 percent from the previous year. The trend is attributed to an...
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has published its provisional 2011 estimates of UK greenhouse gas emissions, together with final estimates of 2010 UK greenhouse gas emissions by fuel type and end-user. It finds that in In 2011, UK...
A report by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency finds that global emissions of carbon dioxide increased by 45% between 1990 and 2010, and reached an all-time high of 33 billion tonnes in...
Growth in emission transfers via international trade from 1990 to 2008 (Peters G P, Minx J C, Weber C L and Edenhofer (2011) PNAS) demonstrates the need to consider the embedded emissions in imports when assessing a country’s contribution to...
A Finnish study finds that urban density and per capita GHG emissions are unrelated, which shatters some common asumptions. It’s income rather than density that is key – the richer you are, the higher your carbon footprint so, of course, a city...
Published by Angela Druckman et al of Surrey University (Druckman A, Bradley P, Papathanasopoulou E, Jackson T. Ecological Economics (2007)) shows that that the accounting convention chosen for reporting carbon emissions radically...
In November 2009 the World Watch Institute released a report arguing that the FAO's estimate of livestock's total contribution to global GHG emissions (18%) is a serious underestimate and that the true footprint of livestock production is around 51%...
The first annual report to Parliament by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), published on the 12 October, concludes that a step change is required in the pace of UK emissions reduction to meet carbon budgets, and that in some areas, new policy...
Development of an embedded carbon emissions indicator: Producing a Time Series of Input-Output Tables and Embedded Carbon Dioxide Emissions for the UK by Using a MRIO Data Optimisation System was published by Defra in July 2008. Some of the...
