Countries should be monitoring each other's progress. The commitments are important and support to achieve them or more should be a matter of international morality. Recognition of achievements by countries and people alike should be center stage. Every country should be doing it's part.
16 March 2016
By John Vidal
Falling coal use in China (click here) and the US and a worldwide shift towards renewable energy have kept greenhouse gas emissions level for a second year running, one of the world’s leading energy analysts has said.
16 March 2016By John Vidal
Falling coal use in China (click here) and the US and a worldwide shift towards renewable energy have kept greenhouse gas emissions level for a second year running, one of the world’s leading energy analysts has said.
Preliminary data for 2015 from the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed that carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector have levelled off at 32.1bn tonnes even as the global economy grew over 3% .
Electricity generated by renewable sources played a critical role, having accounted for around 90% of new electricity generation in 2015. Wind power produced more than half of all new electricity generation, said the IEA....
