Special Academy Series Tuesday, 21 April COVID-19: Sustainable Finance and the Future of the Global Economy

In the wake of the economic volatility created by the pandemic, it is clear that environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are material factors that business must manage appropriately.

Zimbabwe’s energy-starved fuel stations turn to solar.

As power cuts take their toll on Zimbabwe’s economy, private companies are finding innovative solutions to keep their businesses going. 

Power China 2020, an unique and perfect opportunity to get in touch with China's power supply market! (16-18 August 2020)

  The 10th Asia-Pacific Power Product and Technology Exhibition (Power China 2020)

Energizing the Green Economy : The growth of clean energy jobs

Around the world and across the US, clean energy jobs not only put millions to work, but provide sustainable, affordable power to communities of all sizes. This isn’t looking ahead to the future – these jobs exist here and now, and they’re already maki

American Voters Favor Offshore Wind.

Over 80% of the nation’s voters favor offshore wind energy.

While you were taking care of your family, EPA was giving polluters a free pass.

Most of us see the COVID-19 pandemic as a health crisis. Big polluters saw an opportunity. We’ve all heard the line. Never waste a crisis. Well, the nation’s top polluters took it to heart this week.

New, ultrathin solar cell doubles the current efficiency record by reaching almost 50%.

Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have created a record-shattering new solar cell.

Gas Goes Green: Networks unveil plan to deliver world's first zero carbon gas grid.

Major new project aims to help ready UK gas grid for hydrogen and biogas switchover

How Covid-19 is refocussing sustainable finance.

A broader focus of sustainable finance is needed to support sustainable business models covering both environmental and social elements, argues Constance Chalchat from BNP Paribas CIB

Environmental charities fear huge nature and climate cost from coronavirus crisis.

Green groups come together to warn that welcome financial support from government is failing to go far enough

'Welcome ambition': Shell to unveil net zero emissions plan.

Oil giant to update investors on sweeping new strategy to deliver net zero emissions across its entire value chain by 2050

Solar-powered hand sanitiser wins ESA-backed hackathon.

A start-up company that has repurposed upcycled solar cells to generate ultraviolet light to disinfect people’s hands has won €20 000 in a hackathon designed to share and rapidly develop ideas to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

Air pollution remains low as Europeans stay at home.

Further analyses are showing the continued low levels of nitrogen dioxide concentrations across Europe – coinciding with lockdown measures implemented to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Shell's Latest Annual Report: More Greenwashing?

Two years after internal documents surfaced showing that Royal Dutch 

The age of stability is over, and coronavirus is just the beginning.

Persistent Cloudless Skies Helped Fuel Exceptional Greenland Ice Melt.

Warm temperatures, clear weather and little snow all played a role in last summer’s major melt event on the ice sheet. The Greenland ice sheet saw some of its highest melt rates on record last summer. Now, scientists say they know why it happened.

Madrid 1995: Diagnosing climate change.

John Houghton chaired the tense IPCC meeting without which there would be no Kyoto Protocol. Here he recalls how science won the day.

Megadrought emerging in western U.S. could be the worst in 1,200 years, study finds.

Catastrophic wildfires, decreasing snowpack and dwindling water resources have become a normal part of life for residents in the western U.S.

COVID-19 and Climate Change: We Must Rise to Both Crises.

In the Pacific we aspire to endurance and sustainability. But progress is difficult to sustain when we face multiple threats that reverse decades of development gains in a matter of hours or days.

COVID -19: The global economic outlook and the implications for sustainable finance.

Global co-operation is required for dealing with both a pandemic like COVID-19 and climate change. Environmentalists argue that COVID-19 economic rescue plans must be green to meet requirements for climate action.