The atmospheric increase of CO2 from 2011 to 2012 was higher than its average growth rate over the past ten years, according to this latest edition of the annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin puiblished by World Meteorological Organization.
This is a report on the in-depth ambient air quality and noise monitoring for the city of Delhi conducted by CPCB during celebration of Diwali festival for the year 2013.
If the greenhouse "gap" isn’t "closed or significantly narrowed" by 2020, the pathway to limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5C will be closed, warns this 2013 edition of Emissions Gap Report compiled by 44 scientific groups in 17 countries.
This 2013 report published by Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross Switzerland presents a new list of the top ten polluted places in the world and also provides updates on the sites published in the previous editions.
This report contains information and recommendations on the work of the Standing Committee on Finance (SCF) in 2013, including: its 3rd meeting, held from 8 to 10 March 2013; its 4th meeting, held from 15 to 17 June 2013; and its 5th meeting, held from 27 to 30 August 2013, which all took place in Bonn, Germany.
This new scientific report released by World Bank shows that moving rapidly to reduce pollutants such as methane and black carbon, could slow warming in critical snow and ice-covered regions while benefitting human welfare.
The dialogues, undertaken with a spirit of continuity, focused on five themes: challenges in water utility management, roles of the private sector and civil society, role of water regulators, improving water data and metrics, and prospects for capacity building.
Slowing the rate of global warming over the near term by cutting short-lived climate pollutants to complement carbon dioxide reductions for the long term. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are responsible for 55-60% of anthropogenic radiative forcing. Fast and aggressive CO2 mitigation is essential to combat the resulting climate change.
This report published by Amnesty International exposes several serious deficiencies and abuses within the Joint Investigation Visit or JIV process that render it wholly unreliable as a basis for making claims about the cause of oil spills, the volume of oil spilt or the area impacted.
