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Study finds methane emissions from coal mines ~50% higher than previously thought

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The results have important implications for Earth’s climate because methane is about 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide when it comes to warming the planet over a long period. His paper drew largely on data from the United States and Ukraine, countries where data about coal mine status and methane is fully available.

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Global Carbon Budget 2022: Global fossil CO2 emissions expected to grow 1.0% in 2022

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Many countries, cities, companies, and individuals have made pledges to reduce emissions, and it is stark reminder that despite all this rhetoric, global fossil CO 2 emissions are more than 5% higher than in 2015, the year of the Paris Agreement. —Glen Peters, a Research Director at the CICERO Center for International Climate Research.

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Study: air pollution causes 800,000 extra deaths a year in Europe and 8.8 million worldwide

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Using a new method of modeling the effects of various sources of outdoor air pollution on death rates, the researchers found that it caused an estimated 790,000 extra deaths in the whole of Europe in 2015 and 659,000 deaths in the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU-28). million deaths in 2015. —Prof Lelieveld.

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Global CO2 emissions stalled for the third year in a row

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Also in Eurasia emissions grew in Turkey (5%) and Ukraine (8%). Since 2015, the EU’s CO 2 emissions have stabilized, representing 9.6% Emissions are increasing in other developing countries: 6% for Indonesia and Malaysia; 9% for Pakistan and 12% for the Philippines. In 2016, the EU’s CO 2 emissions were 20.8% below the levels in 2005.

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Our Energy crisis is self made in europe

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While all eyes are on Ukraine and Russia, Europe’s energy woes are largely self-made, not due to outside forces. In the 4th quarter of 2021, the International Energy Agency reported that average European wholesale electricity prices were more than four times their 2015-2020 average. In the U.K.,

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Cobalt Market Report: EVs become the major driving force for cobalt demand growth in 2021

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Demand rose by 32 kt in 2021 alone compared to 51 kt in the 5 years from 2015-20. Freight routes were anticipated to begin to normalize from the second half of 2022, but this will likely be delayed due to impacts from the war in Ukraine and Covid-19 lockdowns in China.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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Our 2020 study , published in Nature Climate Change , found that manufacturing a typical EV sold in the United States in 2018 emitted about 7 to 12 tonnes of carbon dioxide, compared with about 5 to 6 tonnes for a gasoline-fueled vehicle. passenger-vehicle fleet over the period between 2015 and 2050. fleet of light vehicles.