It includes all low-income and some emerging economies, such as Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey. Together the countries in this cluster represent approximately half of global emissions23,24. In the past two years, South Africa’s emission change rate...
Sweden, andNorwayoccupy ranks four through six in the new Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2022. Places one to three again remain vacant because no country’s measures thus far have been sufficient to achieve an overall ‘very high’ rating – none are following...
There are additional caveats to our findings. Perhaps the most important is our limited understanding of how the structure of electricity demand might change in the future. Evidence from India on the sensitivity of the shape of the demand response to increasing income44, reinforces the importance ...
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing the world. Electrical engineers are working on innovative solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the electrification of everything. In this webinar cohosted by MathWorks and IEEE, you will learn how engineers are working to generate...
Livestock production is the world’s dominant land use, covering about 45% of the Earth’s land surface, and much of it in harsh and variable environments that are unsuitable for other purposes. Climate change (CC) can impact the amount and quality of...
then washing well inland. The December 2004 tsunamis following a magnitude 9 earthquake in Indonesia reached the west coast of India and affected the Kalpakkam nuclear power plant near Madras/Chennai. When very abnormal water levels were detected in the cooling water intake, the plant shut down ...
1. In the January 2024 Monetary Policy Statement (MPS), MAS maintained the rate of appreciation of the Singapore dollar nominal effective exchange rate (S$NEER) policy band, with no change to the width of the band or level at which it was centred. Since then, the S$NEER has cont...
Positive trends are seen as well among emerging economies of the G20 like India (rank 20), Argentina (rank 36) and Brazil (40) which all improved their ranking in the CCPI 2017. Still no big emitter is acting in line with the 1.5-2°C limit, therefore the first three ranks a...
Forest restoration is fundamental to overcoming biodiversity crises and climate change. In tropical forests, animals can improve forest recovery as they disperse >70% of tree species. However, representing animals in restoration and climate change pol
Climate change threatens terrestrial water storage over the Tibetan Plateau Article15 August 2022 Main As a vital source of meltwater from seasonal snowpack and thousands of glaciers, HMA surrounding the TP, also known as Asia’s water tower, protects approximately 800 million people against water ...