In a new analysis released as the Paris climate change summit nears, the International Energy Agency says countries’ collective pledges to reduce emissions would lead to a dramatic disconnect between using energy and emitting greenhouse gases.
Just one year after 2014 set a record as the hottest year in the historical record, 2015 is on track to beat it by a substantial margin, possibly signaling a return to a sustained period of rapid global warming.
When people talk about electric vehicles, the conversation usually revolves around companies like Tesla, GM/Chevrolet, and Nissan who, thus far, have dominated the EV market.
A North Dakota oil well owned by Oasis Petroleum Inc blew out over the weekend and has yet to be capped, leaking more than 67,000 gallons of crude so far and endangering a tributary of the Missouri River, state officials said.
The good news: Every country is submitting a detailed pledge to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The bad: Those pledges, added together, aren’t nearly enough to keep us below 2°C of global warming.
Though talk of climate change was notably absent from the 2012 debates—which caused critics to accuse both President Obama and Mitt Romney of “climate silence”—it’s been a fairly steady fixture of presidential debates for decades, discussed in nearly every debate cycle since 1988.
Despite low gas prices, world automakers from Toyota to VW are moving ahead on nonpolluting vehicles.
Home-stretch negotiations in Bonn for a 195-nation climate rescue pact stumbled Monday over developing countries’ protests that their key demands are being sidelined.
Europe’s promotion of diesel vehicles as a “green” transportation option has been a total disaster thus far — for reasons that go well beyond the Volkswagen scandal.
Ten of the world’s big oil companies, mainly from Europe, on Friday jointly acknowledged their industry’s role in global climate change and said that they agreed with the United Nations’ goals of limiting global warming.
