Goals

This year in April, the Biden administration announced a renewed commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement. The goal is now to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.The target is ambitious, but it isn't a pipe dream. According to a newly published analysis of existing climate models, it's more than possible with strong and immediate action.  By primarily focusing on the power sector, energy analysts have shown what initial steps need to be taken to triple the pace of the nation's historical reductions.Over the…

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The US is doing a pretty horrible job of following through on promises it’s made to tackle climate change, according to two separate new studies. A global ranking of countries completed by Yale and Columbia found that the US now ranks 43rd among 180 nations that Columbia and Yale evaluated in their most recent Environmental Performance Index (EPI). That’s a major plummet since the last time the researchers ranked countries in 2020, when the US was in 24th place. When it comes to climate indicators alone (the…

BENGALURU: More than two-thirds of organisations in India surveyed agree that digital twins will help in achieving environmental sustainability goals and 85% agree that improving sustainability is a key driver of their digital twin implementations, according to a report on digital twins by Capgemini Research Institute. A digital twin is a virtual replica of a physical system that can model, simulate, monitor, analyze, and constantly optimize the physical world. A…

Race fans look at shirts that are made from plastic bottles during the final practice for the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Friday, May 27, 2022, in Indianapolis. Credit: AP Photo/Darron Cummings Parked a few feet from the iconic pagoda at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a reimagined E-Z-Go golf cart that's essentially filled with garbage. Plastic bottles tossed into recycling bins months ago are…

CLIMATEWIRE | EPA’s proposal to limit toxic pollution from heavy-duty trucks is stronger than anything that has come before it. But state and local air quality agencies say it’s not aggressive enough to meet the federal regulator’s own clean air standards. The National Association of Clean Air Agencies — which represents 115 local air pollution control agencies across 41 states, four territories and the District of Columbia — estimates that more than a third of the U.S. population lives in an area that does not meet…

HISTORY OF SCIENCE Paleontologist statue unveiled The paleontology pioneer Mary Anning finally has a statue honoring her contributions to the understanding of Earth’s past. On 21 May, organizers officially unveiled the statue in Lyme Regis on southern England’s Jurassic Coast. Anning collected fossils from the area’s rich deposits in the early 1800s, identifying the first known ichthyosaur and England’s first pterosaur. Her contributions were long overlooked, but in 2018, local…

Pushing for Carbon Neutrality by 2040 PlayStation owner Sony Corporation has announced that it is accelerating its environmental upgrade plans by 10 years. In a new statement (as noted by Eurogamer), the industry giant announced that it would be bringing its “Road to Zero” green efficiency plan forward, with an aim of severely reducing its carbon footprint within the coming decades. Sony is looking to achieve its ambitious renewable energy goals by revising the power input and output of its global network of offices…

Only two of the world’s 12 top automakers plan to make enough electric vehicles by 2030 to stay in step with the Paris Agreement climate goals, experts said. Globally, more than half of all new vehicles coming off of production lines in 2029 would need to be electric for the sector to be compliant with the goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, according to Influence Map, a research NGO that evaluates corporate climate goals and policies. At the same time, 11 of the 12 carmakers…

Globally, more than half of all new vehicles coming off of production lines in 2029 would need to be electric for the sector to be compliant with the goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Only two of the world's 12 top automakers plan to make enough electric vehicles by 2030 to stay in step with Paris Agreement climate goals, experts said Wednesday.…