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网页2024年9月13日 · This is three times higher than the amount secured last year. It is also a new capacity record, if wind power projects from 2022 that were subsequently cancelled or scaled back are excluded, according to the analysis. Carbon Brief covers climate science, energy and policy, specialising in clear, data-driven articles to improve the understanding ...
Factcheck: How electric vehicles help to tackle climate change
网页2019年5月13日 · Other recent studies of electric cars in Germany have reached the opposite conclusion. One study found that emissions from EVs have emissions up to 43% lower than diesel vehicles. Another detailed that “in all cases examined, electric cars have lower lifetime climate impacts than those with internal combustion engines”.
Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate ...
网页2021年10月5日 · Historical responsibility for climate change is at the heart of debates over climate justice.. History matters because the cumulative amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted since the start of the industrial revolution is closely tied to the 1.2C of warming that has already occurred.. In total, humans have pumped around 2,500bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2) into the atmosphere since 1850, leaving less ...
Global CO2 emissions have been flat for a decade, new data reveals
网页2021年11月4日 · Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and cement have rebounded by 4.9% this year, new estimates suggest, following a Covid-related dip of 5.4% in 2020.. The Global Carbon Project (GCP) projects that fossil emissions in 2021 will reach 36.4bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2), only 0.8% below their pre-pandemic high of 36.7GtCO2 in 2019.. The researchers say they “were expecting some ...
Explainer: Will global warming ‘stop’ as soon as net-zero emissions …
网页2021年4月29日 · Media reports frequently claim that the world is facing “committed warming” in the future as a result of past emissions, meaning higher temperatures are “locked in”, “in the pipeline” or “inevitable”, regardless of the choices society takes today. The best available evidence shows that, on the contrary, warming is likely to more or less stop once carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions ...
Around the world in 22 carbon capture projects - Carbon Brief
网页2014年10月7日 · The Quest CCS project is a joint venture between Shell, Chevron and Marathon Oil. It is designed to capture around 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from a plant that turns heavy Canadian tar sands into useable products. The £750 million scheme is due to open in 2015 and will reduce site emissions by 35 per cent.
Analysis: China’s carbon emissions grow at fastest rate for more …
网页2021年5月20日 · China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have grown at their fastest pace in more than a decade, increasing by 15% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2021, new analysis for Carbon Brief shows. The post-pandemic surge means China’s emissions reached a new record high of nearly 12bn tonnes (GtCO2) in the year ending March 2021.
Solar, wind and nuclear have ‘amazingly low’ carbon footprints, …
网页2017年12月8日 · The study finds each kilowatt hour of electricity generated over the lifetime of a nuclear plant has an emissions footprint of 4 grammes of CO2 equivalent (gCO2e/kWh). The footprint of solar comes in at 6gCO2e/kWh and wind is also 4gCO2e/kWh. In contrast, coal CCS (109g), gas CCS (78g), hydro (97g) and bioenergy (98g) have relatively high ...
Fossil fuels: Is the world on track for moving past coal, oil and gas ...
网页2022年10月4日 · Fossil fuels and climate targets. Many of the talks at the conference considered the question of fossil fuels in the international arena. This included how countries are accounting for coal, oil and gas in their climate plans under the Paris Agreement, and the impact that stringent targets are set to have on nations that rely heavily on revenue from producing fossil fuels.
Analysis: How well have climate models projected global warming?
网页2017年10月5日 · Here, Carbon Brief examines the A2 scenario, though all have fairly similar emissions and warming trajectories up to 2020. The A2 scenario projected a 2016 atmospheric CO2 concentration of 406 ppm, nearly the same as what was observed. The SRES scenarios were from 2000 onward, with models prior to the year 2000 using estimated historical forcings.
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