Introduction For Post 36, Climate Scorecard asked our Country Managers to make short-term policy recommendations that would make a significant impact on achieving a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, a goal recommended by the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Our Country Managers proposed a mix of new initiatives that will make...
Introduction For Post 35, we asked Climate Scorecard Country Managers to describe where the electricity comes from that is consumed in their countries. What is the amount of total electricity consumption? How has consumption been trending since 1990, or at least over the last 10 years? What percentage of total consumption comes from coal, oil,...
Introduction For Post 34, Climate Scorecard asked our Country Managers in leading greenhouse gas emitting countries to indicate the degree to which their country’s emissions have increased or decreased over time. One of the difficulties in doing this analysis was to find a common measure of comparison across countries since emissions are reported in different...
Introduction Climate Scorecard recently asked our Country Managers to report on new and noteworthy developments in climate mitigation policy in their countries over the past 3 months. The results, with a few exceptions, were mainly positive – an indication that, despite the challenges of a global pandemic and worldwide recession, there appears to be a...
Introduction Climate Scorecard’s Post 32 provides profiles on 26 of the world’s leading climate research organizations. Many are doing ground-breaking work on issues such as renewable energy, deforestation, sustainable energy, weather patterns, and related topics. Several of these research centers are privately funded; some are government financed. Almost all carryout their work in collaboration with...
Introduction At Climate Scorecard we feel that green jobs ought to be a proxy measure for the development of green economies around the world; that data on the amount of an economy’s green jobs can serve as an indicator of the extent to which countries are investing in low and zero carbon technologies. So we...
Introduction Justice is a growing and important theme of efforts to address climate change around the world. Climate justice is a term used to frame global warming as an ethical and political issue, rather than one that is purely environmental or physical in nature. An important concern related to climate justice is that those who are...
Introduction COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the economies of most countries. Major industries, such as tourism, car manufacturers, and aviation have been affected. Governments have sought to stem this economic downturn by offering hard-hit industries economic recovery packages in the form of loans, credit guarantees, and employee protection programs. Unfortunately, in the haste to address...
Introduction There are strong disturbing links between biodiversity and climate change. These links have been further highlighted as a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 is thought to have a zoonotic origin, meaning a disease that jumped from animals onto humans; in this case, it may have been caused by the eating of infected...
Introduction Over the course of the first four months of 2020, almost every country has experienced the onslaught of the Coronavirus, COVID-19. As of May 14th there have been 4.37 million recorded cases of COVID-19 and 298,000 deaths world-wide. The economic devastation being wrought by COVID-19 is equally devastating. Record numbers of people have lost...
