For the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the Caribbean, renewable energy technologies (RETs) will become increasingly important in the face of high fossil fuel costs.
In contributing to global climate change mitigation efforts as agreed in Paris in 2015, China has set a target of reducing the carbon dioxide intensity of gross domestic product by 60-65 percent in 2030 compared with 2005 levels.
The Black Carbon Finance Study Group (BCFSG), led by the World Bank Group and United Nations Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative with support from the CCAC, investigated ways to scale up financing and investments for black carbon mitigation.
This report focuses on the risks of climate change to development in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia and South Asia.
Tourism contributes to about 5% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, and the most common greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), is emitted through goods and services related to tourism.
As emissions trading schemes (ETS) continue to emerge around the world, governments are starting to consider and implement linkages between their domestic schemes. This paper analyses the case for a link between the EU ETS and the upcoming South Korean ETS.
Renewable power accounted for 70% of net additions to global power generating capacity in 2017, but global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose 1.4% in 2017, after three years of holding steady.