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Factcheck: How electric vehicles help to tackle climate change
May 13, 2019 · Electric vehicles (EVs) are an important part of meeting global goals on climate change. They feature prominently in mitigation pathways that limit warming to well-below 2C or 1.5C, which would be inline with the Paris Agreement’s targets.
Explainer: Desertification and the role of climate change - Carbon …
Aug 6, 2019 · Defining desertification. In 1994, the UN established the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as the “sole legally binding international agreement linking environment and development to sustainable land management”. The Convention itself was a response to a call at the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 to hold negotiations for an international legal ...
Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles
Oct 24, 2023 · FALSE: ‘The electric Volvo C40 needs to be driven around 68,400 miles to cut carbon’ Newspapers have also continued to reuse estimates of the climate impact of Volvo’s EVs, published in 2021, which, as with those from VW, have been repeatedly corrected.. For example, a July 2023 article in the Daily Mail wrote: “Volvo revealed in 2021 that the emissions from the production of electric ...
Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate ...
Oct 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 ...
Explainer: Will global warming ‘stop’ as soon as net-zero emissions …
Apr 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 ...
Explainer: How the rise and fall of CO2 levels influenced the ice ages
Jul 2, 2020 · Antarctic reconstructed air temperature (red line) at Dome Fuji site Antarctica using isotope modelling from Uemura et al (2018) and Antarctic composite ice core atmospheric CO2 data (blue line) from Bereiter et al (2014).Data spans the period from 800,000 BCE to 1980 CE. Chart by Carbon Brief using Highcharts.. While the CO2 concentrations provide a good representation of global average ...
Analysis: Why scientists think 100% of global warming is due to …
Dec 13, 2017 · The extent of the human contribution to modern global warming is a hotly debated topic in political circles, particularly in the US. During a recent congressional hearing, Rick Perry, the US energy secretary, remarked that “to stand up and say that 100% of global warming is because of human activity, I think on its face, is just indefensible”. ...
‘Food miles’ have larger climate impact than thought, study …
Jun 20, 2022 · Dr Ulrich Kreidenweis – a researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Bio-economy, who was not involved in the study – tells Carbon Brief that the new study presents “a significant deviation from the former scientific mainstream opinion that transport is no major contributor to emissions from the food system”.. For example, a study published last year finds that ...
Explainer: These six metals are key to a low-carbon future
Apr 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 ...