TopicCarbon footprint

Topic: Carbon footprint

What China’s pledge to be carbon neutral by 2060 means for big economies

Akshat Rathi - 26 September, 2020

For all of the economies now linked in aspirations to end emissions, reaching net zero will mean a fundamental rewiring that accelerates clean-energy investments and dials back fossil fuels.

This app plants a tree every time you make a low-carbon choice

Harry Kretchmer - 25 July, 2020

China’s largest private sector tree-planting scheme is based on an award-winning mobile game that turns good deeds to a new tree.

Covid-19 response is a chance for companies to place planet over profits

Anna Bruce-Lockhart - 25 April, 2020

Greenpeace’s Jennifer Morgan believes that the Covid-19 crisis is a chance for companies to create a circular zero-carbon economy for profit and people.

Nobody wants to stop flying even as shaming over carbon footprint grows

Roger Tyers - 15 February, 2020

Flying has become normalised in society, aided by ticket prices which are on average 61% cheaper in real terms than in 1998.

How to be a jet setter in these (climate) changing times

Siobhan Wagner - 23 December, 2019

Climate change protest movements and growing awareness about the carbon footprint of different lifestyles are giving commercial flyers a dose of 'eco-guilt'.

India has an air pollution problem — fighting it may lead to more greenhouse gas emissions

Rajesh Kumar Singh - 9 December, 2019

The environment ministry in 2015 imposed caps on emissions of toxic gases from power plants, allowing operators two years to retrofit facilities. That deadline has been extended due to financial challenges.

Planting saplings not enough to cut carbon footprint, we need forests: Former IFS officer

Mohana Basu - 4 September, 2019

At 14th UNCCD COP 14 meeting, experts say ecological restoration is the only way to combat desertification of lands and significantly reduce carbon footprint.