If we want to halt or even reverse global warming, we need to find a way to get carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere — and increasing the number of whales on Earth might be our best option. For a new International Monetary Fund report titled “Nature’s Solution to ClimateContinue Reading
Transport emissions — which primarily involve road, rail, air and marine transportation — account for over 24% of global CO2 emissions in 2016. At a time when global emissions need to be going down, transport emissions are on the rise, with improvements in vehicle efficiency more than offset by greaterContinue Reading
According to a decade-long study by an international team of researchers, human CO2 emissions total 100 times more than the planet-warming effects of all volcanoes combined. The total amount emitted by volcanoes is only about 0.3 gigatons a year — a tiny fraction of the 37 gigatons humankind produced in 2018 alone. In theContinue Reading
Just as during the Industrial Revolution it was companies that led the push for the spread of steam engines, today many corporations are taking the driver’s seat in the global energy transformation. In 2017, companies in 75 countries actively sourced 465 terawatt hours (TWh) of renewable energy, nearly equivalent toContinue Reading
You’ve heard of water batteries, and now here comes the UK’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) with the idea of a gas battery — that is, using the country’s existing natural gas infrastructure to store and deploy hydrogen gas. They’ve come up with a powerful argument in favor, too. TheContinue Reading
The International Civil Aviation Organisation has forecasted that CO2 emissions from the aviation sector will increase to the range of 682 Mt to 755 Mt by 2020, and could even be as high as 2,700 Mt by 2050, a six-fold increase from 2010 levels, if nothing is done about it.Continue Reading
