by Zach Dawes Jr | Dec 29, 2020 | News
The 2030 climate targets set by the 2015 Paris Agreement will not be met without substantive changes, according to a U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) report published Dec. 9. In 2019, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions rose by 1.1% from 2018 – the third year in a row of...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 12, 2020 | News
Around 1.6 million people live within three miles, and nearly 170,000 within one mile, of the top 100 toxic emission facilities in the U.S., according to a United Church of Christ report published Feb. 27. Nearly 12,000 children lived within one mile and more than...
by Andrew Wright | Mar 9, 2020 | Opinion
A recent check on United Kingdom data for 2017 suggests that since the 1970s we have generally cut our emissions by 40%. Current thinking is the world stands at the edge of a climate emergency and so we will all have to reduce our emissions and energy usage...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 18, 2020 | News
Global carbon dioxide emissions remained stable in 2019 after two years of increases, according to data released Feb. 11 by the International Energy Agency (IEA). CO2 emissions from advanced economies declined by 0.4 gigatonnes (Gt) while emissions in the rest of the...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 15, 2019 | News
Energy usage worldwide increased by 2.3 percent in 2018, according to an International Energy Agency (IEA) annual report published March 26. This is more than twice the average rate since 2010, resulting in a 1.7 percent increase in energy-related CO2 emissions. Three...