"The green transition is happening too slowly. We are in a climate emergency and it is clear that we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by transitioning to more sustainable transportation."

#GreenhouseGasses #Climate #ClimateChange #Emissions #Bicycles

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-bike-ev-infrastructure-urgently-green.html

@primonatura

And, in other news, their investigators have established that ursine mammals do, in fact, defaecate in arboreal locations.

#ExxonMobil #Emissions #GreenhouseGasses #Climate #ClimateChange

"A bacteria that consumes the greenhouse gas methane could slow the rate of global heating, according to a study out this week."

#Bacteria #GreenhouseGasses #Study

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/22/bacteria-that-eats-methane-could-slow-global-heating-study-finds

"The United Arab Emirates, which will run the crucial Cop28 UN climate summit in December, has failed to report its emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane to the UN for almost a decade, the Guardian can reveal."

#UAE #UN #UnitedNations #COP28 #Emissions #GreenhouseGasses

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/17/un-climate-summit-host-uae-failed-report-methane-emissions

An extract of daffodil added to cattle feed could reduce methane production in cows by 30%!

#GoodNews #Daffodil #Cows #Methane #GreenhouseGasses #Climate #Farming

https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/environment/carbon/cows-fed-daffodil-extract-may-cut-methane-emissions-by-third

"Searing heat killed more than 60,000 people in Europe last summer, scientists have found, in a disaster made deadlier by greenhouse gases baking the planet."

#Europe #Heatwave #Temperature #Weather #Emissions #GreenhouseGasses

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/10/heatwave-last-summer-killed-61000-people-in-europe-research-finds

"When it comes to taking stock of global emissions, there's an elephant in the room: the world's armed forces."

#Emissions #GreenhouseGasses

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/worlds-war-greenhouse-gas-emissions-has-military-blind-spot-2023-07-10/

Proposed new #UK #oil and #gas fields would provide at most three weeks of energy a year | #FossilFuels | The Guardian

In other words they are a folly, producing only a marginal improvement in #energy security while at the same time massively expensive and contributing to #GlobalWarming.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/11/new-north-sea-oil-and-gas-fields-will-not-meet-uks-energy-needs

#Environment #GreenhouseGasses #ClimateChange #Pollution

"Greenhouse gas emissions from shipping could be halved by 2030 without damaging trade, new research has found, as countries prepare to meet to discuss a potential new tax on carbon produced by ships."

#Emissions #GreenhouseGasses #Carbon #Ships

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/26/shipping-emissions-could-be-halved-without-damaging-trade-research-finds

"Rewetting about half of England’s lowland peat would be enough to deliver a fifth of the greenhouse gas emissions savings needed from the country’s farming by 2030, research suggests."

#UK #UnitedKingdom #England #Emissions #Agriculture #GreenhouseGasses #Environment

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/20/rewetting-englands-lowland-peat-could-help-meet-emissions-target-says-study

"The Swiss people have voted yes to a new climate law that will see the country cut net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050."

#Switzerland #Climate #ClimateChange #GreenhouseGasses #Emissions

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/06/19/electricity-sinkhole-or-important-step-forward-swiss-citizens-to-vote-on-new-climate-law

"Getting households off gas for heating and cooking would cut energy bills and improve people’s health, and is necessary for Australia to have any hope of reaching net zero greenhouse emissions by 2050, a new analysis says."

#Australia #NetZero #Emissions #GreenhouseGasses

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/19/australian-homes-gas-net-zero-targets-report

"Greenhouse gas emissions have reached an all-time high, threatening to push the world into “unprecedented” levels of global heating, scientists have warned."

#GreenhouseGasses #Emissions #Study

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-at-all-time-high-study-finds

"Rich industrialised countries responsible for excessive levels of greenhouse gas emissions could be liable to pay $170tn in climate reparations by 2050 to ensure targets to curtail climate breakdown are met, a new study calculates."

#GreenhouseGasses #Emissions #Study #Climate #ClimateChange

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/05/climate-change-carbon-budget-emissions-payment-usa-uk-germany

"Greenhouse gas pollution from human activity trapped 49 percent more heat in the atmosphere during 2022 than those same gases did in 1990, according to an annual NOAA report."

#GreenhouseGasses #NOAA #Emissions #Pollution

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/05/28/noaa-index-tracks-how-greenhouse-gas-pollution-amplified-global-warming-in-2022/

"Guest post: Half of developing countries still struggle to report greenhouse gas emissions"

#GreenhouseGasses #Emissions

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-half-of-developing-countries-still-struggle-to-report-greenhouse-gas-emissions/

"Methane must fall to slow global heating – but only 13% of emissions are actually regulated"

#Methane #GreenhouseGasses #Emissions #Climate #ClimateChange

https://theconversation.com/methane-must-fall-to-slow-global-heating-but-only-13-of-emissions-are-actually-regulated-205941

"Methane emissions from landfills—one of the largest sources of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions—could be reduced through stronger regulations and better emissions monitoring, according to a new report by the Environmental Integrity Project, an environmental organization based in Washington."

#US #USA #America #Methane #Emissions #GreenhouseGasses #Report

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18052023/methane-landfills-regulations/

"Fact check: Is Europe the only part of the world that has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions?"

#Europe #GreenhouseGasses #Emissions

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/05/17/fact-check-is-europe-the-only-part-of-the-world-that-has-reduced-its-greenhouse-gas-emissi

"The French oil major TotalEnergies has sued the environmental group Greenpeace France and the climate consulting firm Factor-X over a report claiming that the company massively underestimated its 2019 greenhouse gas emissions, Total said on Wednesday."

#France #Greenpeace #GreenhouseGasses #Emissions

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/03/french-oil-giant-totalenergies-sues-greenpeace-over-emissions-report