New York, 21 September 2019 – Young people from Portugal, Brazil and the United States are being celebrated as the winners of the 2019 Global Youth Video Competition for telling inspiring stories of…
The G20, accounting for 80 per cent of emissions, is not on track to meet Paris pledges
Technological advances, sub-national action and societal support provide foundation for increased…
Science highlights key facts and figures about growing gap between targets and reality
New York, 22 September 2019- The world’s leading climate science organizations have joined forces to produce a…
Ο Δήμος Μοσχάτου – Ταύρου και το Κέντρο Ενεργειακής Πολιτικής και Ανάπτυξης (ΚΕΠΑ) του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών με την διπλή ιδιότητα του δεύτερου ως συντονιστή του δικτύου BSEC – Green Energy Network…
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg—visiting the United States from her native Sweden to attend the United Nations Climate Action Summit beginning Monday in New York—spoke during a hearing of the…
For a long time, there were two big knocks against solar power: It’s expensive, and it can’t keep the lights on after sundown.
A contract approved Tuesday by the Los Angeles Department of Water and…
The international community is falling well short of providing the cash needed to ensure universal access to electricity by 2030, according to a report released on Monday (12 November 2018).
At the…
Welcome to the 12th International Scientific Conference on Energy and Climate Change website. PROMITHEASnet – the Energy and Climate Change network, as the organizer, invites you to this three-days…
We are excited to announce that the UN Global Compact Academy is offering eighteen new sessions from October 2019 – March 2020. Designed to help you build the skills and knowledge you need to…
According to the report three major challenges that are expected to intensify in the years ahead, are over-building of coal-fired capacity, declining water supplies and increasing competition from…
Το Ευρωκοινοβούλιο ενέκρινε σήμερα επιπλέον 100 εκατομμύρια ευρώ για τα «προγράμματα-ναυαρχίδες» της ΕΕ, δηλαδή, το Horizon 2020 και το Erasmus+ , που αφορούν τη χρηματοδότηση της έρευνας (80 εκατ.…
I was 18 when I started college at the University of East Anglia in England. I had just completed eight years at a British Army school in Germany. My parents dropped me off on campus with a couple of…
Την καταψήφιση των συμβάσεων παραχώρησης δικαιώματος έρευνας και εκμετάλλευσης υδρογονανθράκων(1) σε Κρήτη και Ιόνιο, που κατατέθηκαν σήμερα στη Βουλή, ως εθνικά επιζήμιων, ζητούν με επιστολή τους…
Will California show the nation how to take on the enormous problem of single-use plastic? Or will state lawmakers chicken out under heavy lobbying by plastic makers who are happy to continue to…
New York, 18 September—United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today announced a new initiative aimed at ensuring that decent job creation and protecting livelihoods are at the center of…
Amid growing international calls for the burning of fossil fuels to be made a crime against humanity, South Africans have been reminded how much public and private funds still prop up carbon…
Extreme events linked to climate change, such as the heatwave in Europe this year, are occurring sooner than expected, an ex-chief scientist says.
Prof Sir David King says he's been scared by the…