Mar 03 2021 Read 1108 Times
New research shows 64 countries cut their fossil CO2 emissions during 2016-2019, but the rate of reduction needs to increase tenfold to meet the Paris Agreement aims to tackle climate change.
This first global stocktake by researchers at the
University of East Anglia (UEA),
Stanford University and the
Global Carbon Project examined progress in cutting fossil CO2 emissions since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015. Their results show the clear need for far greater ambition ahead of the important UN climate summit in Glasgow in November (COP26).
The annual cuts of 0.16 billion tonnes of CO2 are only 10 per cent of the 1-2 billion tonnes of CO2 cuts that are needed globally every year to tackle climate change.
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Jan 17 2021 Read 713 Times
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just introduced its Rule on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Aircraft, which is the first piece of national legislation to impose regulations on the aviation industry. But although the laws are long overdue, they unfortunately don’t appear set to make much of a difference to the existing status quo.
That’s because the regulations have been lifted almost wholesale from the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) guidelines. As such, most aircraft the world over already comply with those rules, since doing so is a prerequisite of air travel. Worst still, the EPA’s new legislation only applies to new models – even though no new designs are in the pipeline and aren’t expected to be for 10 years.