U.S. President Barack Obama late last week announced an aggressive agreement to  increase the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) to 54.5 miles per gallon for cars and light-duty trucks by model year 2025. The agreement, made with 13 major automakers, including Ford, GM, Chrysler, Honda, Jaguar/Land Rover, Hyundai, BMW, Kia, Mitsubishi, Mazda, Nissan, Toyota and [...]

Many people think of climate change in the mode of skepticismor despair, but a group of architects called Collectif et Alors has teamed with the Mairie de Paris to introduce another response: optimism. This group of architects has imagined how Paris would respond to a rise in temperature of 2 degrees Celsius in the next [...]

Nearly a year after India’s climate change plan was revealed, Indian cities are waking up to incorporating climate change action into their policies. The capital, Delhi, has recently unveiled its own climate change action plan that incorporates six out of eight of the nation’s CC missions.  Parts of this initiative are a number of transport [...]

   Bangalore hasn’t been the best of cities to stay in these past few days. Reeling under the burden of a severe power crisis, multiple endless unscheduled power cuts crippled the IT city and the southern state of Karnataka. Falling right in the middle of unseasonably hot weather, end of year exams and pre-election momentum, [...]

The transport sector in Mexico contributes 18 percent of national CO2 emissions. According to estimations by EMBARQ, transport emissions (other than CO2) are responsible for 4,000 premature deaths and 2.5 million lost work days per year in Mexico City. In other words, transport should be and is a high priority for policy makers of Mexico’s [...]

To hear about water crisis in Ethiopia does not surprise, but not many people would expect that Mexico, an industrializing country, is facing serious water challenges. Punctually to the 20th anniversary of Conagua (Mexico’s National Water Commission), Mexico City has to close its water taps: from January until the end of the dry season (April), [...]

Growing automobile usage in Chongqing, China. Photo by kindsir @ flickr In the long media shadow cast by UNFCCC COPs many other international negotiations and summits are over-looked. This week a 900-participant meeting in Asia is attempting to make specific contributions to climate change policy, with another announced for 2009. In Bangkok, Thailand, the Better [...]