The Conversation

Reducing air pollution could increase methane emissions from wetlands – here’s what needs to be done

Vincent Gauci receives funding from or has received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council, The Royal Society, Spark Climate Solutions, Axa Research Fund, Defra. Lu Shen receives ...
Seeking Alpha

Greening Aluminum: The Urgent Need To Reduce Emissions

Aluminium is a key material for industries aiming to reduce their carbon footprints - and demand is soaring. However, its production is highly energy-intensive; it emits around 3% of the world's ...
The New York Times

Many Climate Policies Struggle to Cut Emissions, Study Finds

The most effective ones tend to combine several emissions-cutting strategies, not a stand-alone approach, according to an examination of 1,500 policies globally. By Austyn Gaffney First, the good news ...
Supply Chain

Four Ways to Reduce Your Scope 3 Emissions From Within

Scope 3 carbon emissions, which make up the majority of an organization’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, are the result of indirect activities that occur in a company’s supply chain. Because they’re ...
Business Wire

Lumos Earns SBTi Recognition for Industry-Leading Commitment to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

HIGH POINT, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lumos, a leading 100% Fiber Optic Internet and Total Home Wi-Fi service provider based in High Point, North Carolina, today announced its participation in the ...
NBC DFW

200 US chemical plants must reduce toxic emissions likely to cause cancer, EPA says

More than 200 chemical plants nationwide will be required to reduce toxic emissions that are likely to cause cancer under a new rule issued Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The rule ...
Yale Environment 360

Large-scale study in India shows that a pollution market can reduce emissions

In India, much of the population breathes air that is 10 times more polluted than what the World Health Organization considers safe. In a study released April 15 in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, ...
Science Daily

A cheap and easy potential solution for lowering carbon emissions in maritime shipping

Reducing travel speeds and using an intelligent queuing system at busy ports can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from oceangoing container vessels by 16-24%, according to researchers. Not only ...
Scripps News

Study Finds Nitrous Oxide Emissions Grew 40% over 40 Years, Accelerating Climate Change

Emissions of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane – continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, a year when more than 10 million metric tons were released into the ...
PBS

New EPA rule says more than 200 U.S. chemical plants must reduce toxic emissions

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 200 chemical plants nationwide will be required to reduce toxic emissions that are likely to cause cancer under a new rule issued Tuesday by the Environmental Protection ...
The New York Times

China for First Time Promises to Reduce Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions

President Xi Jinping told a U.N. climate summit that China will reduce emissions across its economy, expand renewables sixfold and make electric cars “mainstream.” By Somini Sengupta For the first ...
CNN

New Zealand government sued over ‘inadequate’ plan to reduce emissions

Climate lawyers are taking the New Zealand government to court, alleging its plan to reduce planet-heating pollution contains “glaring holes,” which will have “huge consequences for our country.” Two ...