A Global Breakdown of Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Sector In a few decades, greenhouse gases (GHGs)—chiefly in the form of CO₂ emissions—have risen at unprecedented rates as a result of global growth and resource consumption. To uncover the major sectors where these emissions originate, this...
Greenhouse gasesClimate neutralityProjections of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are critical to enable a better understanding and anticipation of future climate change under different socio-economic conditions and mitigation strategies. The climate projections and scenarios assessed by the Intergovernmental ...
Growing consumption is both necessary to end extreme poverty1and one of the main drivers of greenhouse gas emissions2, creating a potential tension between alleviating poverty and limiting global warming. Most poverty reduction has historically occurred because of economic growth3,4,5,6, which means ...
Agricultural production is strongly affected by and a major contributor to climate change. Agriculture and land-use change account for a quarter of total global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). Agriculture receives around US$600 billion per year worldwide in government support. No rigorous quanti...
2009. Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming potential of reclaimed forest and grass- land Soils. J Environ Qual 38:426-37. doi:10.2134/jeq2008. 0283.Shrestha, R. K., Lal, R., and Penrose, C.: Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming potential of reclaimed forest and grassland ...
Since the industrial revolution began, the atmospheric abundance of key greenhouse gases have increased substantially.
Absolute scopes 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions did not reduce between 2016 and 2022, but for the majority of industry groups in the dataset, the intensity of scope 1 emissions declined. The utilities, materials, energy, and transportation...
1 Globally, the change in power sector emissions is driven by an uptake of renewables, as new installations of around 500 GW per year (2023 value) continue to decrease the use of coal in power in mature or maturing economies. However, this shift in power is largely offset by increasing ...
The materials, innovation, and capital needed to limit global warming are not equally distributed around the world. Ensuring that all economies can achieve the transition to net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions and meet their climate goals will require scaling up cross-border flows of goods, services,...
Material production accounts for a quarter of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Resource-efficiency and circular-economy strategies, both industry and demand-focused, promise emission reductions through reducing material use, but detailed assessment