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WEBJun 9, 2024 · This is one of five charts Carbon Brief has produced for a piece explaining how climate change is hitting food supplies and prices. The piece explores case studies around the world, from extreme heat damaging Chinese rice crops, to hurricanes and pests curbing orange harvests in the US. Carbon Brief covers climate science, energy and …
Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate ...
WEBOct 5, 2021 · Historical responsibility for climate change is at the heart of debates over climate justice.. History matters because the cumulative amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted since the start of the industrial revolution is closely tied to the 1.2C of warming that has already occurred.. In total, humans have pumped around 2,500bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2) into the atmosphere since 1850, leaving less ...
Factcheck: How electric vehicles help to tackle climate change
WEBMay 13, 2019 · Other recent studies of electric cars in Germany have reached the opposite conclusion. One study found that emissions from EVs have emissions up to 43% lower than diesel vehicles. Another detailed that “in all cases examined, electric cars have lower lifetime climate impacts than those with internal combustion engines”.
Explainer: These six metals are key to a low-carbon future
WEBApr 12, 2018 · Rare-earth metals, also known as rare-earth elements (REEs), are a group of 17 chemically similar elements.Each has unique properties, making them important components for a range of technologies from low-energy lighting and catalytic converters to the magnets used in wind turbines, EVs and computer hard-drives. Neodymium and praseodymium, known together as “NdPr”, which are used in the ...
Around the world in 22 carbon capture projects - Carbon Brief
WEBOct 7, 2014 · The Quest CCS project is a joint venture between Shell, Chevron and Marathon Oil. It is designed to capture around 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from a plant that turns heavy Canadian tar sands into useable products. The £750 million scheme is due to open in 2015 and will reduce site emissions by 35 per cent.
Analysis: Why US carbon emissions have fallen 14% since 2005
WEBAug 15, 2017 · In Carbon Brief’s analysis, overall CO2 emissions are around 18% lower than they would have been, if underlying factors had not changed, and 14% lower than their 2005 peak. No single factor is responsible for more than a third of total declines in US CO2. Increases in gas electricity generation is the largest driver, accounting for 33% of the ...
Factcheck: Why the recent ‘acceleration’ in global warming is what ...
WEBApr 4, 2024 · Chart by Carbon Brief. The chart shows how the warming rate of 0.18C per decade seen since 1970 has almost doubled to roughly 0.3C per decade over the past 15 years. Researchers have proposed a number of potential contributors to the increased rate of warming seen in recent years. One is the significant decline …
Explainer: Will global warming ‘stop’ as soon as net-zero emissions …
WEBApr 29, 2021 · Media reports frequently claim that the world is facing “committed warming” in the future as a result of past emissions, meaning higher temperatures are “locked in”, “in the pipeline” or “inevitable”, regardless of the choices society takes today. The best available evidence shows that, on the contrary, warming is likely to more or less stop once carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions ...
Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles
WEBOct 24, 2023 · Here, Carbon Brief factchecks 21 of the most common – and persistent – myths about EVs. FALSE: ‘An EV has to travel 50,000+ miles to break even’. FALSE: ‘VW’s e-Golf becomes more environmentally friendly only after 77,000 miles’. FALSE: The ‘electric Volvo C40 needs to be driven around 68,400 miles to cut carbon’.
Global CO2 emissions have been flat for a decade, new data reveals
WEBNov 4, 2021 · Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and cement have rebounded by 4.9% this year, new estimates suggest, following a Covid-related dip of 5.4% in 2020.. The Global Carbon Project (GCP) projects that fossil emissions in 2021 will reach 36.4bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2), only 0.8% below their pre-pandemic high of 36.7GtCO2 in 2019.. The researchers say they “were expecting some ...
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