National energy security, parallel with the ultimate goal of emissions reductions, is of utmost priority for the Chinese government. In order to comply with the requirements set by the Kyoto Protocol, the Chinese government announced, on 25 November 2009, that 2020’s CO2 emissions would be...

Economic measures are advanced to environmental problems in EU nations. The economic approach imposes a constant economic load on activities negatively affecting the environment, and it is also a technique for giving a constant profit for activities conserving the environment. The whole society...

Yes, they matter. To reply to this question, we assess the impact of energy efficiency and renewable energy policies on six different air pollutants: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxides (N2O), non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulphur...

We investigate whether climate activism favors pro-environmental consumption by examining the impact of Fridays for Future (FFF) protests in Italy on second-hand automobile transactions in the strike-affected areas. Leveraging data on 10 million automobile transactions occurring before and after...

More than 30 years have passed since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme to provide governments at all levels with scientific information they can use to address climate change....

More than 100 experts from academia, industry, and government convened Dec. 7-8, 2021, to identify priorities for engineering research that address one of the world’s most vexing challenges: climate change. The Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) event keenly focused on ways...

This paper reviews and assesses India’s energy policy in the context of its commitment to achieve the target of Net Zero carbon emissions by 2070. It discusses policies outside the energy sector that need to be part of a strategy of achieving this target. Furthermore, it examines possible...

Since the Kyoto Protocol, black carbon and other non-gaseous short lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) have played little role in global climate policy making. Over the past ten years, however, there has been an increasing recognition in the climate science literature of their importance for the...

With climate change appearing on the horizon of financial and economic resource debate, it becomes imperative that new mechanisms that link financial investment with mitigation and adaption for climate change are designed. Climate change traditionally, is a subject for meteorologists, ecologist...

The looming climate crisis calls for the development of novel forms of response, but so far, climate change action does not meet its ambitions to tackle the issue. Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCMs) are one proposed solution to bridge the gap. However, VCMs are criticized for not providing real...