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06 05 2019 | 20:28

Eight EU Countries Will Demand Decarbonization By 2050 At Sibiu Summit.

A planned ‘Future of Europe’ summit of European Union national leaders starting in Sibiu, Romania tomorrow was supposed to chart a course for the EU following Brexit. Instead, with Brexit delayed and…

03 05 2019 | 15:10

Toyota and Kenworth unveil jointly developed fuel cell electric heavy-duty truck.

Toyota, Kenworth, the Port of Los Angeles and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) say they have taken the next great leap towards the future of zero-emission trucking, unveiling the first of…

30 04 2019 | 10:06

Researchers Create ‘First-of-its-Kind’ Roadmap for Saving Earth From Climate Change Years Before 2050 Deadline.

A Finnish university has published a comprehensive global road map on how the world can reduce its carbon emissions before the 2050 deadline – and the research says that it is quite feasible. The …

24 04 2019 | 08:32

Energy transition: Towards a zero-emission future.

A low-cost shift to clean energy is now feasible for every region of the world, owing to the plummeting costs of solar and wind power, and breakthroughs in energy storage. The total system costs of…

19 04 2019 | 14:54

Investment Houses See Climate Targets Undercutting Fossils, Warming Above 2.0°C Boosting Financial Risk.

Continued fossil industry development came under increased pressure from investors over the last week, with a major fund manager concluding that climate targets could undercut global oil demand by…

18 04 2019 | 15:55

Why India, Chile, and Jordan lead the way on renewable energy.

Three developing nations are leaders in the race to find clean energy sources. We looked to see if they offer lessons on how to efficiently pivot away from fossil fuels.

13 04 2019 | 13:57

IWSA Wins Initiative of the Year - Green4Sea Awards

A Fresh Wind is Blowing through Shipping’s Decarbonisation Challenge

09 04 2019 | 07:44

U.S. banks pledged to fund renewable energy, but they still spend way more on fossil fuels.

This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of theClimate Desk collaboration.

05 04 2019 | 09:46

'Coal is on the way out': study finds fossil fuel now pricier than solar or wind.

Around 75% of coal production is more expensive than renewables, with industry out-competed on cost by 2025. Around three-quarters of US coal production is now more expensive than solar and wind…

04 04 2019 | 10:28

Rapid global shift to renewable energies can save millions of lives.

Reducing global air pollution can prevent millions of premature deaths according to an international team of scientists, led by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. The most significant…

02 04 2019 | 13:13

New Energy Tech Is Hot Among Billionaires.

Billionaires are spending more on renewable energy, storage, and battery technology. A group of them even set up a US$1-billion fund, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, to encourage research in these…

29 03 2019 | 07:52

Time to clean up: Fossil Generation Continued to Dominate the Growing US Microgrid Market in 2018.

Solar-plus-storage still has a long way to go in catching fossil-fuel-based generation in the U.S. microgrid market, according to a new Wood Mackenzie report. The microgrid market is larger than…

26 03 2019 | 07:07

IFA calls on Government to ‘up the ante’ on renewable energy funding.

The Government’s current “piecemeal approach” will not deliver on Ireland’s renewable energy targets, according to a farm lobby group. The announcement made last week by the Minister for Agriculture…

26 03 2019 | 06:40

How Can We Make Renewable Energy Less Divisive?

Renewable energy is gaining increased support, but it can still be something of a divisive issue, especially when you get into the details of energy policy. Deciding how utilities should compensate …

24 03 2019 | 09:03

OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Turkey 2019

Turkey is the fastest growing OECD economy with rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Since 2008, its economic growth has been relatively decoupled from air emissions, energy use, waste…

23 03 2019 | 13:27

Electrifying news: Solar and wind power has quintupled in a decade.

Across the United States, workers are covering fields with solar panels, and big rigs are hauling massive turbine blades to wind-scoured ridgelines. This is what it looks like when renewable energy…

23 03 2019 | 13:18

Study charts six scenarios for fossil-free energy by 2050.

Cutting energy use in buildings, ramping up renewable electricity and developing large-scale storage with hydrogen are clear options in bringing energy emissions down to zero by 2050, according to a…

23 03 2019 | 11:41

100% renewable energy requires ‘a lot of green hydrogen’.

The production of so-called green hydrogen from wind and solar electricity is seen as a potential game-changer for the transition to a 100% renewable energy system. But getting there will take some…

22 03 2019 | 18:33

Top Global Fossils Spent $1 Billion Since Paris to Lobby Against Climate Action!

The world’s five biggest publicly-traded fossil companies have spent more than US$1 billion in shareholders’ money to lobby against climate action in the years since the Paris Agreement was signed,…

14 03 2019 | 13:14

Chronic coal pollution

There is a dark cloud forming over Europe.