This Monday, the members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group that aims to explain everything that is known so far about global warming, published its latest report. In the document, they gathered the results of the investigations carried out in the last eight years and ensure that if humanity wants the … Read more
The production and consumption of food is generating serious consequences on the planet. Our food system has caused 80% of deforestation and 70% of biodiversity loss in terrestrial ecosystems. However, 4 out of 10 foods produced in the world are never consumed. Added to this situation is the fact that global food consumption alone could add almost … Read more
Despite the fact that emissions due to forest fires tend to decrease globally, some regions recorded records in 2022. An annual balance was published by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) on Tuesday. Throughout 2022 (until December 10) some 1,455 megatons of carbon emissions were produced. And they occurred as a consequence of these forest fires. This … Read more
By carrying out our daily activities, each and every one of us is responsible for releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This is known as a carbon footprint. When we collectively generate more carbon than the Earth can assimilate, the extra CO2 contributes to climate change. Even the most harmless daily activities, such as Internet … Read more
The war between Russia and Ukraine has put on the table the level of greenhouse gas emissions from the armies, whose calculation is complicated to evaluate, experts explain at COP27. “It’s a sector with significant emissions and no one has really addressed that issue,” Axel Michaelowa, head of the international climate policy research group at … Read more
A November 2022 article in Nature argues that the world’s militaries are largely spared from emissions reporting, and this must change. Failure to do so is to create systems in which the mitigation measures of each country become mere guesswork. Many powerful economies around the world are increasingly committed to increasing their military might. Every … Read more
