16% increase in fossil fuel use between 2015 and 2020; lack of recent data. According to the 2022 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Nigeria falls in the 168th position out of a total number of 180 countries in terms of environmental sustainability. With its adoption of the Climate Change Act on 18th November 2021, Nigeria...
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France: Climate Progress Indicators
Data show rise in emissions between 2020 and 2021 Using EU Quarterly Emissions Data (No Data available as for 2022 as of yet); change thought to be due to rise in economic activity after pandemic.By using quarterly greenhouse gas emissions in France in Q3 of 2021 as a baseline, we can analyze changes in emissions...
EU: Climate Progress Indicators
Increase in amount of air emissions between Q3 and Q4 of 2021; lack of data for changes in installed wind and solar power. While new data is not yet available for the total amount of installed wind power capacity in the EU or for the EU’s total solar power capacity, new data is available...
China: Climate Progress Indicators
Significant improvement in air quality index (AQI) in eight Chinese cities from March to June 2022; slight decrease in coal output from April 2021 to April 2022; a drop of 14.5 in wind energy output while a 25% growth rate in solar PV between April 2021 and April 2022.Aggregated actual emission data from China is...
Canada: Climate Progress Indicators
Primary energy production increased slightly from November; coal production increased slightly with coal exports increasing more so; slight increase in electricity production, mainly in hydro between November 2021 to March 2022; transit ridership down from November, March 2022 stats most recent data available.Our goal is to visit different indicators influencing climate change below and their...
Brazil: Climate Progress Indicators
CONTINUED LARGE NUMBER OF FOREST FIRES AND HEAT OUTBREAKSThere are no updates for the proposed indicators of annual indicators of gas emission (last of 2020) and of vehicle licensing (updated until 2021). But data currently is available for the total number of active fires, an important indicator, especially if we consider that about 46% of...
Australia: Climate Progress Indicators
Quarterly data on energy use, agriculture, land use, industrial processes, and more available from the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory In Post 49, three indicators for assessing Australia’s progress towards its climate emissions goals were identified: Greenhouse gas emissions by Australian Corporations (annual), full carbon accounting model (annual) and electricity generation by fossil fuels (annual)....