Greenhouse gas News

California man arrested and charged for smuggling HFCs into the U.S. in first-of-its-kind case. Read all about it.

Saudi Arabia aims to reach "net zero" emissions of greenhouse gases by 2060 In London, climate activists restarted their campaign of blockading major roads

In the lead-up to the UN Secretary-General's Climate Action Summit to be held on September 23 in New York, Chief Executive Officers are being challenged to set even more ambitious targets for their companies in line with the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which made a compelling case for limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Merely by conservation of nature, and reforestation, about 37 percent of global greenhouse gas emission could be reduced by 2030. 

India along with more than 190 nations reached a pact in December 2015 with an aim to prevent an increase in the global average temperature and keep it well below 2 degrees Celsius.

PETA India's appeal came in the wake of reports that Germany's Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks had recently banned meat from being served at meetings and events.

The Minister said it has been agreed that the developing countries will have a differentiated time schedule for such phase down.

In what could be seen as an effective way to reduce the challenges of two major concerns the world is battling—global warming and energy shortage, scientists have found a new way to recycle the greenhouse gas.

Based on data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite, scientists from the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, produced three main maps.

India is in favour of having two different HFC phase-down schedule for developing countries -- one for China and whoever else wants to join China and other for the remaining developing countries.

Ahead of the climate change summit in Paris later this year, India has pledged to curb its greenhouse gas emissions by up to 35 per cent from the 2005 level.

India will not sign any deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions at UN climate talks that threatens its growth or undermines its fight against poverty, the environment minister said Friday.

Boeing announced Wednesday that it completed the first test flight with "green diesel", which offers potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in aviation.