Policy & Regulatory Nigeria’s updated NDC targets 47% conditional cut in GHG emissions by 2030 2 Aug 2021 Nigeria has unveiled a new update of its First Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), setting an unconditional greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target of 20% and a conditional reduction target up to 47% of…
En este año, 2021, el jueves 29 de julio marca la fecha en la que la humanidad agotó el presupuesto de recursos naturales y bienes terrenales que la naturaleza puede sostener anualmente https://www.footprintnetwork.org/our-work/earth-overshoot-day/ A partir de este jueves 29 de julio, lo que resta del año la humanidad continuará incrementando…
Volume 6 Issue 7, July 2021 Trending disruptions As electric power generation is affected by temperature and other meteorological conditions, variations in power production patterns due to climate change should be increasingly observable. Ali Ahmad shows that the rising number of temperature anomalies led to an increase in the number…
Table of Contents: July 2021 Article | 23 July 2021 Northern hemisphere cold air outbreaks are more likely to be severe during weak polar vortex conditions Jinlong Huang, Peter Hitchcock, Amanda C. Maycock, Christine M. McKenna & Wenshou Tian Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 147 | doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00215-6…
Actualidad científica: Del 1 al 29 julio, 2021 Memoria Revierten la pérdida de memoria en ratones ancianos Marta Pulido Salgado La manipulación genética de las redes perineuronales permite recuperar la plasticidad neuronal. Psicología del deporte ¿Cómo se logra la excelencia en el deporte? Christiane Gelitz La práctica multidisciplinar a temprana…
Policy & Regulatory China’s ETS begins trading with a price of US$7.4/tCO2 19 Jul 2021 The Chinese national carbon emission trading scheme (ETS) has officially begun trading with 4.1 MtCO2 quotas worth CNY210m (US$32m) exchanged on 16 July 2021. The opening price was CNY48/tCO2 (US$7.4/tCO2), and the price closed at CNY51.2/tCO2 (US$7.9/tCO2). Read more Brazil…
Volume 2 Issue 7, July 2021 Anticipating the timing, style and size of volcanic eruptions is essential for hazard mitigation. This Review discusses the accumulation and evolution of magma storage regions, the processes that trigger magma reservoir failure, and the ascent of magma through the crust. See Caricchi et al….
Volume 5 Issue 7, July 2021 Y chromosomes matter Females of Poecilia parae are large and grey (centre), but males are always one of five discrete morphs that differ in colour, body size and mating behaviour. Each morph has a unique Y chromosome, allowing the different complex reproductive strategies to…
Volume 11 Issue 7, July 2021 Water-table impact on peat emissions The climate impact of water-table drawdown in peatlands is unclear as carbon dioxide emissions increase and methane emissions decrease due to drying. Writing in this issue, Huang et al. show that decreasing water-table depth results in net greenhouse gas…
Policy & Regulatory The Netherlands adopts the EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED) II 5 Jul 2021 The Netherlands has transposed into Dutch law the European Renewable Energy Directive (RED) II, which requires fuel suppliers to reach a 14% renewables target in the transport sector by 2030. The most recent decree required…
Policy & Regulatory EU members states approve EU Climate Law on climate neutrality by 2050 30 Jun 2021 Ministers from the 27 EU Member States – except for Bulgaria – have formally approved the EU Climate Law, which was endorsed by the European Parliament earlier in June 2021, concluding the…
Actualidad científica: Del 1 al 30 junio, 2021 Neurociencia Cuando las luces están encendidas, el centro del miedo se apaga Jan Dönges Los animales diurnos, como nosotros, se asustan con mayor facilidad en la oscuridad. Esta tendencia también se refleja en el cerebro: la luz reduce la actividad de la…
Table of Contents: June 2021 Article | 24 June 2021 Dominant role of vertical air flows in the unprecedented warming on the Antarctic Peninsula in February 2020 Min Xu, Lejiang Yu, Kaixin Liang, Timo Vihma, Deniz Bozkurt et al. Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 133 | doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00203-w Article | 23…
Policy & Regulatory EU parliament approves the EU Climate Law 25 Jun 2021 The European Parliament has endorsed the EU Climate Law, which enshrines the EU’s commitment to reaching climate neutrality by 2050 and the intermediate target of reducing net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 55% by 2030 compared…
Policy & Regulatory Switzerland proposes a new power sector reform 23 Jun 2021 The Swiss Federal Council has adopted a new law that set bidding rules to increase new renewable power generation to at least 17 TWh in 2035 and 39 TWh in 2050 and hydropower generation to at least 37.4 TWh in…
Volume 6 Issue 6, June 2021 Heavy-duty charging The electrification of trucks is an important step towards transport decarbonization. Borlaug et al. use real-world drive-cycle data from short-haul trucking operations to simulate different fleet charging strategies and then assess their infrastructure needs, estimating that most substations can currently support charging…
Policy & Regulatory Argentina strengthens Ieasa’s control over the energy sector 22 Jun 2021 The Argentinian government has granted greater power to the state-owned power utility Ieasa (former Enarsa), strengthening the development capacity of the company in the national energy sector and repealing a previous administration’s plan to privatise US$1bn…
Policy & Regulatory Turkey will launch a voluntary green certificate scheme 18 Jun 2021 The Turkish energy exchange company Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) will launch the Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin (YEK-G) system on 21 June 2021. The voluntary scheme will provide companies and households with proof of origin of power generated…
Volume 4 Issue 6, June 2021 Ocean litter Using comprehensive data, the study by González-Fernández and colleagues estimates the extent to which riverine floating macrolitter across Europe is transferred to the ocean while the article by Morales-Caselles and co-authors finds that global marine litter is dominated by plastics from take-out…
Policy & Regulatory The US will launch lease for 7 GW of offshore wind in the New York Bight 15 Jun 2021 The US Department of the Interior has proposed competitive lease sale for offshore wind development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the New York Bight, an area of…
Volume 2 Issue 6, June 2021 As June is Pride month, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment celebrates and embraces the LGBTQ+ geoscience community. See Editorial. Image: zorazhuang/Getty images. Cover design: Carl Conway. Editorial Editorial | 14 June 2021 Pride in geoscience For Pride month, we celebrate our LGBTQ+ colleagues, recognise…
Policy & Regulatory Brazil registers 94 GW of projects for the A-5 auction in September 2021 11 Jun 2021 The Brazilian state-owned company Energy Research Office (EPE) has registered 1,694 projects totalling 93,859 MW for the A-5 new energy auction, expected on 30 September 2021, including 52 gas-fired power projects totalling 34.6 GW,…
Policy & Regulatory Croatia releases a new low-carbon development strategy 8 Jun 2021 Croatia has unveiled a new low-carbon development strategy. The country foresees a reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission from the 1990 level under two scenarios. The first scenario, which considers a 33.5% reduction in GHG emissions by 2030…
Volume 5 Issue 6, June 2021 Flexible pollinators Female longhorn bee (Melissodes sp.) on orange sneezeweed (Hymenoxys hoopesii) at Hannagan Meadow in Arizona. Native bees that are flexible in their interaction patterns are able to colonize different habitat patches in the landscape. This interaction flexibility could be a potential mechanism…
Volume 11 Issue 6, June 2021 Cloud feedbacks Whether clouds will warm or cool the planet under climate change is uncertain. Writing in this issue, two separate studies investigate the climate impacts of clouds. Mülmenstädt et al. show that overestimates of precipitation from warm clouds lead to substantial biases in…
Policy & Regulatory Canada unveils a US$795m renewable investment program 4 Jun 2021 The Canadian government plans to invest CAD964m (US$795m) over four years to support smart renewable energy and grid modernization projects. The Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways Program aims to lower emissions by investing in clean energy technologies, like…
Policy & Regulatory Angola unveils a new Nationally Determined Contribution 2 Jun 2021 Angola has unveiled a new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). The country commits to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2025 below a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario by 14% using its domestic resources (unconditional target) or by 24% with international support…
Table of Contents: May 2021 Author Correction | 26 May 2021 Author Correction: Evolution of aseismic slip rate along plate boundary faults before and after megathrust earthquakes Toshihiro Igarashi & Aitaro Kato Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 103 | doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00186-8 Comment | 26 May 2021 Downside up: Science matters…
Public webinar – Global Energy Trends 2021 – 01/06/2021 or 03/06/2021 2020 has been a year in which the whole world has been shaken. Now it’s time to understand the 2020 results through concrete figures and analysis, to anticipate future evolutions on the global energy markets. Register to the 01/06/2021…
Actualidad científica: Del 1 al 28 mayo, 2021 BIOLOGÍA DEL DESARROLLO Las franjas blancas del pez payaso La formación de las rayas de estos peces está regulada por la anémona de mar en la que se refugian los juveniles. Noticias falsas ¿Qué personas son más propensas a difundir noticias falsas?…