
The hottest decade ever. When “acceleration” is the watchword
It sounds like a refrain we are quite used to, as it has been happening for 40 years: the last decade was not only hotter than the [...]
It sounds like a refrain we are quite used to, as it has been happening for 40 years: the last decade was not only hotter than the [...]
Just days before the start of the COP24 climate summit in Katowice, a mounting pile of major reports points to the same message: despite [...]
Levels of the atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs) carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) have all reached new [...]
Global levels of greenhouse gases have reached another new record high, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Despite the increasing number of policies to reduce disposable plastic items, studies show petrochemicals are becoming the largest [...]
A new study claims that fossil fuel subsidies are a burden for national budget and for the environment. Carbon pricing should be [...]
A lack of federal leadership in the US has made the path towards meeting the ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement—limiting global [...]
Smart city technologies have a high, and largely unrealized, potential to improve quality of life. The idea behind smart cities is to [...]
OECD cities are increasingly fragmented and more people are moving to low-density suburbs. A new set of urban sprawl indicators applied [...]
At a key meeting in May, the Council of the European Union formally adopted the regulation on emission reductions by the EU Member [...]
If the emissions associated with the trade of goods and services between cities and the rest of the world are considered, then cities’ [...]