Publication date: November 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 177 Author(s): Brittney K. Goodrich, Rachael E. Goodhue
Publication date: November 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 177 Author(s): Brittney K. Goodrich, Rachael E. Goodhue
Greenhouse gas emissions from energy and transport sectors climb as more people return to work Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The UK’s carbon emissions have begun to rebound following the easing of Covid-19 lockdown measures, causing the “carbon savings” triggered by the coronavirus to halve within weeks. Greenhouse gas emissions from
Publication date: November 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 177 Author(s): Osei-Owusu Kwame Albert, Thomsen Marianne, Lindahl Jonathan, Javakhishvili Larsen Nino, Caro Dario
On the eve of his 101st birthday, the father of the Gaia theory discusses Covid-19, extreme weather… and freezing hamsters James Lovelock is best known as the father of Gaia Theory, the revolutionary idea that life on Earth is a self-regulating community of organisms interacting with each other and their surroundings. An independent scientist who
By External SourceJul 17 2020 (IPS-Partners) How do we incorporate different knowledge systems in the battle for biodiversity? Billy Offland set off on a 2-year journey to learn about conservation from as many different people as possible. In his travels, he met Dr. Anne Poelina in the Kimberley in Western Australia. Anne is a Nyikina
Livestock farming and fossil fuels are main causes of rise in gas, which is 28 times more powerful than CO2 at trapping heat Animal farming and fossil fuels have driven global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane to the highest level on record, putting the world on track for dangerously increased heat levels of
By Miriam GathigahNAIROBI, Jul 15 2020 (IPS) While men are more likely to die from COVID-19, women are facing the full blow of the socio-economic fallout from the ongoing pandemic as well as seeing a reversal in equality gains made over the last two decades, says an all-women panel of international thought leaders, who met
Proposal outlines $2tn for clean energy infrastructure and climate solutions, to be spent as quickly as possible in next four years Joe Biden has unveiled a new, more aggressive climate and jobs plan which advisers say he would take to Congress “immediately”, if elected president. The new proposal outlines $2tn for clean energy infrastructure and
Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD). Credit: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ethiopia. By Ricard GonzálezTUNIS, Jul 14 2020 (IPS) In the 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR, the idea that water would drive the wars of the future took hold among analysts and the media. Three decades later and that grim prospect has, fortunately, not
Declining job retention bonus was honourable and underlined £9.4bn scheme’s shockingly poor design Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, readily conceded last week that there would be a “dead weight” cost to his policy of offering firms a £1,000 bonus for every employee recalled from furlough and kept in employment until the end of next January. That