greenhouse gas

Methane in India: Why precise measurements and cutting-edge technology matter for climate action

Dhanyalekshmi Pillai, Jithin Sukumaran and Thara Anna Mathew September 9, 2026

The looming El Niño is likely to hit hard this year, bringing bracing moments to the already warming world. Extreme weather events are no longer just anomalies; they have become far too common in this new reality. It’s clear that our environment is under unprecedented stress. Experts warn of the costs of inaction: between 1995 and 2024, nearly one million lives have been lost due to climate-relate ...[Read More]

How can we use meteorological models to improve building energy simulations?

Dasaraden Mauree September 7, 2017

Aerial view of EPFL campus, Lausanne, Switzerland. Copyright to Mediacom EPFL / Alain Herzog.

Climate change is calling for various and multiple approaches in the adaptation of cities and mitigation of the coming changes. Because buildings (residential and commercial) are responsible of about 40% of energy consumption, it is necessary to build more energy efficient ones, to decrease their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. But what is the relation with the atmosphere. It is two fold ...[Read More]

An unlikely choice between a gasoline or diesel car…

Dasaraden Mauree June 1, 2015

I have recently been confronted with the choice of buying a “new” car and this has proved to be a very tedious task with all the diversity of car that exists on the market today. However, one of my primary concerns was, of course, to find the least polluting car based on my usage (roughly 15000km/year). Cars (or I should say motor vehicles) pollution is one of the major sources of air pollution (p ...[Read More]