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21 04 2021 | 06:23

Πεπραγμένα της Ρυθμιστικής Αρχής Ενέργειας για το έτος 2020.

Η Ρυθμιστική Αρχή Ενέργειας βρίσκεται στην ευχάριστη θέση να ανακοινώσει τη δημοσιοποίηση των Πεπραγμένων του έτους 2020 τα οποία υποβλήθηκαν πρόσφατα στον Πρόεδρο της Βουλής και στην Επιτροπή Θεσμών…

21 04 2021 | 06:17

Earth Day 2021: When is it and how are people marking global day of environmental action?

As the climate emergency deepens, each successive Earth Day takes on a greater urgency in the fight against the global crisis. Celebrated every year on April 22, the international day of…

21 04 2021 | 06:13

A great deception’: oil giants taken to task over ‘greenwash’ ads.

ClientEarth calls for tobacco-like health warnings on advertisements from fossil fuel firms. Some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies have used advertising to “greenwash” their ongoing…

21 04 2021 | 06:11

Climate crisis: ‘Humans are intruders’ and the natural world is better off without us, says Sir David Attenborough

Legendary naturalist explores lockdown’s influence on the environment in new documentary. Sir David Attenborough has said that human beings have a duty to remember that we are “intruders” and “…

21 04 2021 | 06:07

Suspended Labour MP Claudia Webbe says ‘rich must be abolished’ to combat climate crisis.

Leicester East member earns £81,000 a year plus expenses – and continued claiming councillor’s allowance even after becoming MP A suspended Labour MP has said the “rich must be abolished” to combat …

21 04 2021 | 06:04

Millions of tons of nuclear wastewater from Fukushima will be dumped into the sea.

The water contains more radioactive material than the plant's managers previously stated. Japan's government announced on Tuesday (April 13) that it will dump more than a million tons of…

20 04 2021 | 16:52

ECCAS and UNCDF announce agreement to strengthen financial services for African migrants and families.

TUESDAY 20 April 2021 (New York, New York USA and Libreville, Gabon). The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) today announced…

20 04 2021 | 14:58

Guest post: How ‘high-resolution’ climate models will help Europe plan for extreme weather

“Convective” storms cause some of Earth’s most dramatic weather, including extreme rainfall, hail, lightning and severe wind gusts. Along with lighting up the skies, these storms frequently cause…

20 04 2021 | 14:57

Kenya warns of 'vaccine apartheid' as it hits back at the UK over travel ban move

Kenya has sounded the alarm over a potential coronavirus "vaccine apartheid" playing out between countries, as it accused the United Kingdom of instituting a "discriminatory policy" after London…

20 04 2021 | 14:46

New Report Warns Climate Change Will Accelerate Global Instability.

Climate change, the coronavirus pandemic, and growing inequality will exacerbate global volatility over the coming decades, a report by top U.S. intelligence officials released Thursday warns.

20 04 2021 | 14:34

The Guardian view on peat: keep it in the ground.

A target for phasing out its use in gardens was missed last year, and campaigners are right to demand action

20 04 2021 | 14:25

The world won’t be a greener place until it’s a fairer one.

Action on the climate crisis must come with a social contract to protect the poor and vulnerable. As a climate policy researcher, I am often asked: what is the biggest obstacle to decarbonisation?…

20 04 2021 | 14:05

Op-ed: 5 billion bananas get thrown away each year — how reducing food waste can help solve the climate crisis

Sometime over the last month, you probably threw away a banana. Maybe it got too ripe. Or maybe your child didn’t like the one he was eating with the spotty, brown skin. You probably didn’t think…

20 04 2021 | 14:02

Kenya Lamu mosque: Anger over T-shirt worn by Jay-Z. P

A US-based designer has apologised for using a portrait of a historic mosque in Kenya's island of Lamu on a T-shirt worn by celebrity Jay-Z, an official in charge of the site has told the BBC.…

20 04 2021 | 12:57

Mississippi Power to close last coal plant, three gas-fired facilities by 2027.

Southern Co.’s Mississippi Power subsidiary will close the last of its coal-fired power plants, as well as aging, inefficient natural gas ones, as part of its first-ever comprehensive long-term…

20 04 2021 | 12:54

CEO of Poland’s PGE utility acknowledges need ‘to move away from coal’.

Coal has obviously to be scrapped as a power source, the CEO of the Polish group which owns the EU’s biggest carbon-emitting power plant said on Thursday, underscoring a policy shift in a country…

20 04 2021 | 12:35

Coal financing costs have surged in past 10 years—University of Oxford.

Coal financing costs have surged over the last decade as investors demand returns four times as high as the payoff required from renewable energy projects to justify the risk of investing in fossil…

20 04 2021 | 12:29

Group of U.S. utilities backs proposal to cut carbon emissions by 80% by 2030.

A group of U.S. electricity companies wrote to President Joe Biden this week saying it will work with his administration and Congress to design a broad set of policies to reach a near-term goal of…

20 04 2021 | 12:25

Stranded asset risks for gas investments climbing quickly.

Natural gas is falling out of favor with emissions-wary investors and utilities at a quicker pace than coal did, catching some power generators unaware and potentially leaving them stuck with…

20 04 2021 | 12:20

Fossil fuel pressure and risks mounting for multilateral development banks

Further reliance on coal and LNG will lead to ever larger and unsustainable fossil fuel subsidies. “Gas is over”, proclaimed chief of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Werner Hoyer, at the…