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Advanced Marine Technology From ABB Pioneers Emissions Reduction On the Waterfront
Thriving port cities and the vessels that serve them have been drivers of economic growth for decades, even centuries. Today the role played by ports and ferries in improving the environment of their home cities has become an increasingly significant…
New Jersey’s Plan To Cut Global Warming Emissions 80 percentage By 2050
As I wrote earlier today, New Jersey has a legal requirement to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 80 percentage by 2050, based on 2006 levels. Its biggest source of emissions is transportation, accounting for more than 40 percentage of the state’s…
Daily Global CO2 Emissions ‘Cut to 2006 Levels’ During Height of Coronavirus Crisis
Global restrictions put in place COVID-19 pandemic saw carbon dioxide emissions fall to their lowest level since 2006. The drop was highest in early April, when regions responsible for 89% of global emissions were under some form of lockdown. The…
The Biggest Fall in Carbon Emissions Since WW2 Could Be Short-Lived
Experts warn that without structural change, emissions declines caused by coronavirus could be short-lived as economies get back to normal. * Emissions have to peak in 2020 to hit climate goals * Experts differ on likely impact of the coronavirus…
Member States Must Cut Emissions Across All Sectors to Achieve EU Climate Targets
Emission cuts in the European Union’s (EU) Effort Sharing sectors need to accelerate considerably from 2018 onwards to achieve the current EU 2030 targets, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing, published recently. In particular, the large amount of…
Montenegro Continues to Take Major Steps to Reduce GHG Emissions
Following the adoption of the Law on Protection from the Negative Impacts of Climate Change in December 2019, Montenegro continues to lead the way in the Energy Community in the establishment of a complete system required to reduce greenhouse gas…
European Union Continues to Phase-Down Its Use of Climate-Warming Fluorinated Gases
The EEA report ‘Fluorinated greenhouse gases 2019’ assesses the data reported in 2019 by European companies on the production, import, export, destruction and feedstock use of F-gases until 2018. It looks at the progress made under both the ongoing EU-wide…