Author and social activist Naomi Klein has written a new book On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal. Here she talks to Guardian assistant editor Natalie Hanman about the Green New Deal,…
A new book explores the precipitous decline.
One of the most remarkable trends in energy economics over the last 50 years is the tremendous reduction in solar photovoltaic (PV) prices. The figure…
In the vast air-conditioned halls of an Abu Dhabi conference centre, the world's much-vaunted transition to clean energy is the buzzword in sessions of a top industry gathering.
But many executives…
The study is a collaborative effort of an international team of solar energy experts from Aalto University of Finland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and SMART (Singapore-MIT Alliance for…
In 2016, entrepreneur Ritesh Doshi was burnt out and uncertain of what he wanted to do next. For the previous five years, he had devoted himself to running the Naked Pizza franchise in Kenya. The…
Most of the world’s top companies mining for lithium, cobalt and other minerals used in the making of electric vehicles’ (EVs) batteries, solar panels and other green technologies have been linked to…
The building will generate more power over its lifetime than it consumes.
A new office building called Powerhouse Brattørkaia was unveiled this week in Norway that is built on a design based on a…
Η κλιματική αλλαγή «απειλεί» το αρχιπέλαγος Σβάλμπαρντ και αυτή είναι μια προειδοποίηση για όλους μας.
Τα παγόβουνα επιπλέουν σαν καταδικασμένα νησιά δίπλα στο μικρό πλοίο, καθώς αυτό περνάει μέσα…
Greenland's massive ice sheet may have melted by a record amount this year, scientists have warned.
During this year alone, it lost enough ice to raise the average global sea level by more than a…
Πολλάκις έχει επισημανθεί τόσο από παράγοντες της αγοράς όσο και σε επιστημονική βάση από ειδικούς ότι η Ελλάδα διαθέτει σημαντικό – ανεκμετάλλευτο προς ώρας – υπεράκτιο αιολικό δυναμικό, ικανό να…
Σε παιχνίδι για μεγάλους παίκτες μετατρέπεται η λιανική αγορά ηλεκτρισμού στην οποία σήμερα δραστηριοποιούνται εκτός από τη ΔΕΗ, 18 ιδιωτικές εταιρείες που συγκεντρώνουν μερίδιο 27%. Η αύξηση των…
The main solution to climate change is well known — stop burning fossil fuels. How to do this is more complicated, but as a scholar who does energy modeling, I and others see the outlines of a post-…
Χαμός στα ηλεκτρονικά καφενεία όπου γνωστοί ανώνυμοι "ειδήμονες" κατακεραυνώνουν όσους τολμούν να υπερασπιστούν τη θέση της ΕΛΕΤΑΕΝ για ένταξη του ζητήματος αυτού στο Σύνταγμα. Προσωπικά πιστεύω ότι…
Μια παράπλευρη ωφέλεια έφεραν οι αυξήσεις στην τιμή του ρεύματος. Τα νέα τιμολόγια της ΔΕΗ ευνοούν την αυτοπαραγωγή ενέργειας με συμψηφισμό (net–metering). Απλοί καταναλωτές που έχουν μετατραπεί σε…
Kenya recently launched the Lake Turkana Wind Power project, Africa’s largest wind energy project and the biggest public-private investment in Kenyan history. The wind farm will produce 300MW of low-…
Analysis reveals the contribution of burning organic material from plants, trees and animals – including millions of tonnes of imported wood pellets from the USA and Canada – to the UK's energy mix.…
A paper published in Nature Sustainability presents the first field-data assessment of outcomes of a multi-year study of agrivoltaics in dryland regions led by UA geographer Greg Barron-Gafford.
After a period of zero growth, wind deployment is beginning to take off again in France's overseas territories, but will need to speed up further to achieve the government's 2030 target.
In 2009,…
PREPARATIONS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF CARBON MARKETS ARE UNDERWAY, AS THERE IS NO TIME TO WASTE. VIRENDER KUMAR DUGGAL OUTLINES HOW AN INITIATIVE BY THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK IS HELPING COUNTRIES…
Earlier this year, Tropical Cyclone Idai tore through southern Africa, killing hundreds, injuring thousands, and displacing even more. In Mozambique, as much as half of all annual crops and critical…