The digital carbon footprint reflects the environmental impact generated by our everyday technological activities, from sending an email to joining a video call or storing files in the cloud. Although the digital world may seem intangible, each action requires devices, networks, and data centers that consume energy and produce emissions. It is estimated that this […]
January 15,2019- Buenos Aires, Argentina. The “Diagnosis of the status of the Environmental Assessment” shows the results of the survey, analysis and review of the regulations on Environmental Impact Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment in Argentina, international trends in the subject and the results of a survey conducted in the framework of the Environmental Impact […]
The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal protocol will reduce the projected production and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) by more than 80 per cent over the next 30 years. If fully supported, the amendment can avoid up to 0.4°C of global warming by the end of this century. 65 countries have already ratified the amendment, with […]
Governments have adopted a robust set of guidelines for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement.
COP 24 started today with a call to the finance sector
The event was hosted in the Paris Stock Exchange
It is still possible to keep global warming below 2°C, but the technical feasibility of bridging the 1.5°C gap is dwindling.
Two Americans won the award for integrating studies on climate change and technological innovations in macroeconomic analysis
Statement on the Summary for Policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C:
Washington, D.C., October 2, 2018—IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has become the first multilateral development institution to disclose climate-related risk under the guidelines of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), joining a number of entities that are taking steps to identify and mitigate climate-related financial risk. The disclosure, made in […]
Bangkok, 9 September — Amid growing calls for urgent and strong climate change action, the supplementary Bangkok Climate Change Talks closed today with uneven progress on the guidelines that will tell the world how to implement the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The implementation guidelines are needed to unlock transparent and practical climate action across the […]
