Europe’s second-largest financier of fossil fuels faces a vote to ramp up its climate commitments.
HSBC could be forced to slash its exposure to fossil fuels – starting with coal – from next year,…
Nordic country becomes first in the world where electric car sales outstrip those powered by other means.
Norway became the first country in the world where the sale of electric cars has overtaken…
Starting a garden is an excellent way to enjoy beautiful plants and delicious fruits, herbs, and vegetables right in your backyard. As a new gardener, it’s vital to be sure you’re choosing plants…
Furniture giant IKEA collaborated with Vox Creative and tiny home builder Escape to produce a tiny house on wheels that could inspire environmental- and climate-friendly changes in the housing…
At GreenBiz, we’ve been reporting on the world of sustainable business for over two decades, but this year has been unlike any other. From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to…
The past few months have shown that individuals have an absolutely gobsmackingly critical role to play in confronting a global crisis.
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2020 has been a difficult year, but there are some glints of light in the gloom. From nature-friendly farms to anti-ageing worms and even a way of conjuring vodka out of thin air, here are a few…
To curb climate change, many experts have called for a massive shift from fossil fuels to electricity. The goal is to electrify processes like heating homes and powering cars, and then generate the…
The Greek government has given its nod to investment plans supporting the deployment of over 2.8 GW of wind and solar power capacity.
The four projects call for a combined investment of EUR 2.02…
Ankit Kapasi and Kishore Ganesan from SOFIES India are working on Solar Waste Action Plan (SWAP) project in India, which is looking to investigate both the technical and economic feasibility of a PV…
Indian state of Maharashtra sets goal of adding 17GW of renewable energy capacity by 2025
The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government has come out with a renewable energy policy that has set a target of…
Renewable energy will supply 46.3% of Germany’s electricity this year—utility group
Renewable sources met 46.3% of Germany’s power consumption in 2020, 3.8 percentage points more than in 2019,…
Forty per cent of Friday’s electricity was generated in windfarms thanks to blustery winter weather.
Blustery winter weather helped Great Britain’s windfarms set a record for clean power generation…
This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper. The paper pointed out the risks of language-…
With the development of multiple new green taxonomies at the national level, the key to their implementation is going to be broad and granular green datasets. Analysis by FTSE Russell finds a…
Five years after the Paris Agreement was adopted during the COP 21, and as the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres just called on leaders worldwide to declare a State of Climate…
Sleep is bliss, but it isn’t always environmentally responsible. Many mattresses contain a toxic brew of chemicals — from flame-retardant chemicals like polybrominated diphenyl ethers to formaldehyde…
Around the holidays, it's estimated that Americans throw out an extra 1 million tons of trash per week – and one of the biggest offenders of seasonal waste is single-use gift wrap.
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