WASHINGTON, July 9, 2019 — Ghana – with one of the highest deforestation rates in Africa – has become the third country to sign a landmark agreement with the World Bank that rewards community efforts to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.. Ghana''s five-year Emission Reductions Payment Agreement (ERPA) with
READ MOREAfrican policy choices may therefore greatly reduce regional African summer drying, giving parts of Africa substantial leverage over their own climate and air
READ MOREThe Benefits of RIL-C. Over the past 15 years, TNC has developed an innovative new conservation program called reduced impact logging for climate (RIL-C), a series of best practices for selective logging that allows forest managers to maintain timber harvests while cutting carbon emissions by up to 50 percent. RIL-C can represent a
READ MOREComprising about 17 percent of the world''s population, Africa contributes just 4 percent of global carbon emissions at 1.45 billion tonnes. On a per capita basis, Africa has the lowest emissions
READ MOREAir pollution is the main environmental health hazard worldwide 1,2.For Africa, around one million premature deaths/year are associated with ambient air pollution, making it more deadly than major
READ MOREHuman emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are the primary drivers of the global rise in temperatures.1 This link between global temperatures and greenhouse gas concentrations – especially CO2 – has been true throughout Earth''s history.2. In the chart, we see the global average temperature relative to a baseline, which
READ MOREFine particulate aerosols and black carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion, attributed to traffic, are a major contributor to poor air quality in Nairobi, Kenya, according to a year-long
READ MOREWASHINGTON, July 9, 2019 — Ghana – with one of the highest deforestation rates in Africa – has become the third country to sign a landmark agreement with the World Bank that rewards community efforts to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Ghana''s five-year Emission Reductions Payment Agreement (ERPA
READ MORECentral African Republic: How much CO2 does your country emit? Are emissions falling? How does it compare to other countries?
READ MOREAfrica. Africa is the continent that contributes the least to global warming in both absolute and per capita terms. Africa accounts for the smallest share of global greenhouse gas emissions—3.8
READ MOREThis has harmed economic growth and declined carbon emissions in some countries in Africa including Congo, Equatorial Guinea, South Africa, Angola, Cote
READ MOREKenya''s ambition is to reduce carbon emissions by one-third by 2030, relative to the business-as-usual scenario of 143 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. It also seeks to reduce carbon emissions to as close to zero as possible by 2050. How and whether these goals are achieved will have huge implications for the country''s economic
READ MOREHuman emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are the primary drivers of the global rise in temperatures.1 This link between global temperatures and greenhouse gas concentrations – especially CO2 –
READ MOREBy developing mechanisms to measure carbon emissions, the EKB will help ADB to support the borrower/client to meet this safeguards requirement. Low carbon transportation strategies can be among the least costly ways to reduce GHG emissions when they are designed to reduce the need for travel, to shift trips to often less
READ MOREBrazzaville, 11 December 2021 (ECA) - A draft report of the Central Africa Office of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) urges Central African countries
READ MOREThe Republic of Congo has signed a landmark agreement with the World Bank''s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) that will unlock up to US$41.8 million for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and increasing carbon sequestration—commonly known as REDD+. This Emission Reductions Payment
READ MOREChina''s per capita CO 2 emissions have tripled between 2000 and 2021, and have surpassed the figures of the UK and the EU from 2013 onwards [ 52 ]. By the end of 2020, emission intensity decreased by 19.3% compared to that in 2015, beating the official target of an 18.0% reduction set for the 13th Five-Year Plan.
READ MOREWith global carbon emissions remaining at a high level, the CO 2 concentration has reached above 420 ppm in recent years (Steinthorsdottir et al., 2022), exceeding the 400 and 350 ppm limits for
READ MOREThe initiative has gained momentum for enhancing sustainable forest management in developing countries. The mechanism seeks to reward actors for keeping
READ MOREWhen countries set targets, measure or compare CO 2 emissions, they tend to focus on production-based emissions – CO 2 emitted within a country''s own borders. However, this fails to capture emissions from traded goods – the CO 2 emitted in the production of goods elsewhere, which are later imported (or the opposite: emissions from goods that are
READ MOREThe evidence supports the EKC hypothesis. The result also shows that FDI and the population reduce carbon emissions while trade openness increases environmental degradation. Demissew Beyene and Kotosz (Citation 2019) Applied the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) approach to test the EKC hypothesis in 23 East African
READ MOREAfrica, despite its low contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, remains the most vulnerable continent. Africa is the most vulnerable continent to climate change impacts under all climate scenarios above 1.5 degrees Celsius. Despite having contributed the least to global warming and having the lowest emissions, Africa faces exponential collateral
READ MOREThis study explores sustainable development and achieving net-zero emissions by assessing the impact of solar energy adoption on carbon emissions in 40 high and upper middle-income nations and 22 low and lower middle-income countries from 2000 to 2021. Dynamic GMM analysis reveals substantial potential in mitigating
READ MORESub-Saharan Africa (minus South Africa) accounts for only 2.3 per cent of total global emissions of greenhouse gases. 10. It would take the average Ethiopian 240 years to register the same carbon
READ MOREThe study is focused on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 7, 8, and 13. At the nexus of energy consumption, economic growth, and carbon emissions, we investigated the interactive effect of energy consumption and economic growth on carbon emissions for seventeen selected African countries using static panel estimation
READ MOREIn this light, we explore the role of clean energy and technological innovation in carbon emissions reduction in China from 1995-2018. The key outcomes from the fully modified least squares and robust least-squares indicate an elasticity of -0.065 and -0.075, respectively, for the nexus of renewable energy and CO2 emissions.
READ MOREProjected impacts considered high risk around 1.5°C include: across more than 90% of Africa, more than 10% of species are at risk of local extinction (Figure 9.6; Table 9.1); the further expansion of woody plants into grass
READ MOREDue to its heavy reliance on coal-fired power, South Africa is listed as the world''s 14 th largest emitter of greenhouse gases—but through new technology, South Africans can now reduce their individual carbon emissions. Despite South Africa pledging a 34% reduction in its business-as-usual (BAU) emissions by 2020 and 42% by 2025,
READ MOREUsing multiple remote sensing datasets, we found that deforestation resulted in significant carbon emissions, which was counterbalanced by carbon
READ MORECentral Africa an opportunity to take advantage of their forest resources to provide competitively priced carbon sequestration and emission reduction projects to
READ MOREGabon is the first country in Africa to receive payments for reducing carbon emissions. The first payment is part of the breakthrough agreement between Gabon and the multi
READ MOREJune 22, 2021 – Gabon is the first country in Africa to receive results-based payments for reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.The first payment is part of the breakthrough agreement
READ MORE2010-2019 is the warmest decade on record. On the current path of carbon dioxide emissions, the global temperature is expected to increase by 3 to 5 degrees Celsius by the end of century. To avoid the worst of warming (maximum 1.5°C rise), the world will need to decrease fossil fuel production by roughly 6 per cent per year between 2020 and 2030.
READ MOREThe US, EU-28, China and India, representing almost 60% of anthropogenic carbon emissions, were considered as reference entities and the trends were extrapolated to estimate the global impact. It is worth noting that CO 2 emissions need to be reduced by 50 to 80% by 2050 to accomplish this objective (Sikarwar and
READ MOREAfrica, despite its low contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, remains the most vulnerable continent. Africa is the most vulnerable continent to climate change impacts under all climate scenarios above 1.5 degrees
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