Urban areas are responsible for more than 70% of global CO2 emissions, primarily due to transport, industry, and buildings, Mukhtar Babayev, COP29 President and Azerbaijan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, said on Wednesday.

Norway is set to inaugurate on Thursday the gateway to a significant undersea vault for carbon dioxide, marking a crucial step toward launching what the operator describes as the first commercial service for CO2 transport and storage.

The surge in data centers is projected to generate approximately 2.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions globally by the end of the decade, driving increased investments in decarbonization, according to Morgan Stanley research cited by Reuters.

By Faiq Mahmudov

The analytical-information portal News.Az continues its series of articles, interviews and videos entitled "COP29 Baku". As part of this series, we will be posting interviews with and videos of prominent climate and environmental experts. Our guest today is Robert Newton. He is an oceanographer specializing in atmosphere/ice/ocean interactions in the Arctic and its peripheral seas. He also works with noble gases, stable isotopes, nutrients and other ‘tracer’ signals to derive provenance and pathways of water masses in ocean. Bob founded and directed the Secondary School Field Research Program (SSFRP), Lamont-Doherty’s internship program for pre-University students. The SSFRP recruits mainly from communities underrepresented/underserved in earth and environmental science; it is the most diverse of Lamont-Doherty’s educational programs. The program centers field- and lab-based research related to the Hudson estuary, New York Harbor, and green spaces in the NYC metropolitan area. Bob teaches in the Sustainability Science masters program.

The analytical-information portal News.Az continues its series of articles, interviews and videos entitled "COP29 Baku". As part of this series, we will be posting interviews with and videos of prominent climate and environmental experts. Our guest today is Volker Sick, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Mechanical Engineering; DTE Energy Professor of Advanced Energy Research; Director, Global CO2 Initiative; Faculty Director, Center for Entrepreneurship College of Engineering, University of Michigan.

European Union countries gave their final approval on Monday to a law to cut carbon dioxide emissions from trucks, which will require most new heavy-duty vehicles sold in the EU from 2040 to be emissions-free, News.Az reports citing Reuters.