article thumbnail

Studies find global COVID-19 lockdowns have significantly reduced PM2.5 and NO2 pollution, but ozone up

Green Car Congress

The week of Chinese New Year holiday is indicated by the red lantern shown inset panels (b) and (h). They found that nitrogen dioxide pollution decreased by an average of 40% over Chinese cities and by 20% to 38% over Western Europe and the United States during the 2020 lockdown, as compared to the same time in 2019. Shi and Brasseur.

Ozone 291
article thumbnail

Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

Climate 236
article thumbnail

Global Wind Power Capacity Grew 28.8% in 2008; 120.8 GW Total

Green Car Congress

Wind energy is the only power generation technology that can deliver the necessary cuts in CO 2 in the critical period up to 2020, when greenhouse cases must peak and begin to decline to avoid dangerous climate change. Steve Sawyer, Secretary General of GWEC. China would then have met its 2020 target of 30 GW ten years ahead of time.

2008 150