Government policies during the COVID-19 pandemic have drastically altered patterns of energy demand. We estimate the decrease in CO2 emissions during forced confinements.

Livestock are a critically important component of the food system, however, the sector needs a profound transformation to ensure that it contributes to a rapid transition towards sustainable food...

The Paris Agreement does not only stipulate to limit the global average temperature increase to well below 2 °C, it also calls for 'making finance...

The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook provides an assessment of the prospects of national, regional and global agricultural commodity markets over the coming decade. The baseline projections for production, consumption, stocks...

Despite our obsession with carbon dioxide, methane could be a handier ally to fight climate change.

Scientists find micro-organisms from the bovine stomach have ability to degrade polyesters in lab setting.

Microorganisms, like bacteria and fungi, are becoming an emerging resource for the development of eco-sustainable plastic degradation and recycling processes. In this study, the rumen content from cattle (Bos taurus) was...

Timeseries of fossil CO2 emissions from 1970 till 2016 and GHG emissions from 1970 till 2012 for all world countries with sector-specific break-down.

The ‘Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research version 4.2’, is a product of the Joint Research Centre and the PBL Netherlands Assessment Agency, referred to as EDGAR 4.2 and contains global...

The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) provides global past and present day anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants by country and on spatial grid...