Published by the Environmental News Service GENEVA, Switzerland, October 26, 2016 (ENS) – For the first time this year, the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth’s atmosphere is projected to reach the milestone of 400 parts per million on a global average basis for an entire year, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Read […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund About 1,250 endangered Rothchild’s giraffes live north of the Nile River in Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park. Joel Sartore The veterinarian leaned out the Land Cruiser’s passenger-side window, a tranquilizer gun propped on his shoulder. After eyeing a herd of giraffes, he leveled the rifle and took a […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Banking expert says climate change could trigger the next financial crisis – Paul Fisher, the former deputy head of the Bank of England’s regulatory department, says climate change poses “a systemic risk” by […]
Published by the Environmental News Service BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 23, 2016 (ENS) – At the first Eastern Partnership formal ministerial meeting on environment and climate change, the EU and six partner countries to the east confirmed their joint commitment to cooperation on environmental challenges, climate change and sustainable development. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/10/23/climate-cooperation-binds-eu-eastern-european-nations/
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A male Eurasian wolf in Norway’s Langedrag Nature Park Tom Bech/Flickr If you have only a few of something left, you usually try to conserve them, right? From the last M&Ms in the bag to Elaine Benes’s sponges, scarcity tends to confer greater value. Endangered species work the […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Read this post in French. Global Forest Watch Canada (GFWC) has released a report that highlights the growing threat of logging and road building to one of Quebec’s largest and last remaining intact forest landscapes—the Broadback River watershed. The Broadback River watershed, comprising more than five million acres […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund World agrees to phase-down HFCs, Chile hands down new regulations to salmon fisheries, Nestlé to go 100 percent renewable in Panama To get the weekly Latin America Green News blog delivered directly to your email, subscribe here. October 13 – October 20, 2016 Climate Change Negotiators at the Kigali […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Kien Giang province is nestled in the southwest of Vietnam, featuring a prominent coastline along the Gulf of Thailand. Here in these tepid waters lives the blue swimming crab, a crustacean with an olive-green body and front claws the color of the sky on a clear day. Many locals rely […]
CPI Steering Committee Chair Tom Feige of Dow “Our driving force is CPI,” remarked CPI Steering Committee Chair Tom Feige at the Opening Session of the 2016 Polyurethanes Technical Conference. “We have an association of people and resources that support a material that is vital to our society.” The strength and momentum driving the industry […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund This blog post was written with my colleague Bruce Ho. Rapid innovation in clean energy technologies, new business models, and smart climate policy frameworks, such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), are enabling us to reach our climate goals cost-effectively and should continue to do so over […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Today, developed countries released a “Roadmap” for how they will mobilize climate finance between now and 2020. This critical funding will help developing countries build low carbon and climate resilient economies and is an integral part of the Paris Agreement since countries reinforced their commitment to mobilize $100 […]
Published by the Environmental News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, October 16, 2016 (ENS) – Independent biologist Alexandra Morton has filed a lawsuit against Canada’s Minister of Fisheries and Oceans for putting wild salmon at risk by failing to test farmed salmon for a viral disease. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/10/16/biologist-sues-canadian-government-over-salmon-disease/
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund At 6:55 on Saturday morning, more than 140 countries sealed a landmark deal, called the Kigali Amendment, to phase down the powerful climate-warming pollutants called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) under the Montreal Protocol, the treaty that saved the ozone layer. Almost ten years after NRDC and others first proposed amending […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The world took a huge step on climate action in finalizing a historic amendment to phase down super-potent greenhouse gases in Kigali, Rwanda. After a marathon negotiations stretching over ten days, and years in the making, countries around the world agreed on an ambitious and flexible amendment to […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act turned 40 this year. And NOAA Fisheries, the federal agency that administers that law, reported coincidentally on Wednesday that forty ocean fish populations or “stocks” have now been rebuilt from depleted levels. The prudent thing for NOAA fisheries to do at […]
Published by the Environmental News Service GUILDFORD, Surrey, UK, October 14, 2016 E(NS) – The European Union’s own internal policy processes are blocking the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions across the 28-member bloc, finds new research by an international team from Sweden and the United Kingdom. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2016/10/14/eu-blocks-its-own-climate-change-emissions-cuts/
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Electric vehicle sales are expected to cruise by a new landmark – By the end of 2016, the number of plug-in cars on the world’s roadways is set to pass 2 million. China […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund The title quotes Ms. Irene Diaz, Costa Rica’s Deputy Minister of Energy and Environmental Management, who said these words at the opening discussion of the high-level ministerial segment of the 28th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Kigali, Rwanda today. Amidst intense negotiations to reach […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund Your browser doesn’t support Javascript or has it disabled. onEarth works best with Javascript enabled. Germany plans to slow down its renewable energy growth spurt – Leaked emails show that the country plans to halve its target for wind farm expansion in the north, because its grid can’t […]
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund A lot of people seem confused about what happened at CITES regarding elephants. On social media and in news articles, whether it’s Facebook or the BBC, people are asking: are elephants better off than they were before CITES? Yes, here’s why: Win: Encouraging Countries to Close Domestic Ivory […]