Gone with the wind: Offshore strategy at Total.
You need all the different food groups and tech in the diet’, says Olivier Terneaud, Vice President, offshore wind, gas, renewables & power of the plan for Total to reach net zero by 2050.
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Fossil Fuel Companies Are Job Killers.
New analysis shows the number of workers required per project will soon fall by 20 to 30 percent, even without a transition to renewables.
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Fossil fuels get too many government handouts. Biden wants to cut them off.
The American Jobs Plan proposes taking away major tax breaks for the fossil fuel industry.
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Climate Change Cannot Be Mitigated Without Effective Carbon Pricing.
More and more countries, already representing about 70% of the world economy, are setting
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Remarks at the Leaders’ Dialogue on the Africa COVID-Climate Emergency: Delivering the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Programme
Thank you very much. Excellencies, I thank the African Development Bank and the Global Center for Adaption for convening us today.
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Effort to Return Benin Bronzes to Africa Remains Ongoing Challenge.
LONDON - The promise to return several Benin Bronzes from three Western institutions to the former Kingdom of Benin in Nigeria was celebrated by many. But returning all the artifacts looted by British soldiers 125 years ago will continue to be a challenge.
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Can geoengineering stop climate change? A new paper says it can help, but it’s no magic bullet
And there's still a lot we don't understand about its effects. The climate keeps getting hotter, and officials around the world are failing to rise to the task of tackling emissions to ensure a future for our kids and grandkids.
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We can stop thousands of tons of pollution from reaching the ocean — just by changing our laundry habits
It's a small change that can make a very big difference. Every day, some 13,000 tons of microfibers are released into European waters — that’s equivalent to two garbage trucks of small textile fibers in Europe alone.
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Greece officially closes four lignite-powered plants with 1,200MW of capacity
Four of the country’s most polluting power production plants are being formally shut down as Greece phases out the use of brown coal, or lignite, in line with European Union environmental protection rules and government pledges for a transition to sustainable energy sources.
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Record 260 GW of new renewable energy capacity added in 2020: research
LONDON (Reuters) - A record 260 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy capacity was added worldwide in 2020, up 50% from the year before, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said, as countries further reduced their reliance on fossil fuel power.
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Emissions covered by EU pricing markets fell 12% in 2020.
Emissions regulated under the European Union's (EU) carbon market decreased by more than 12% last year, with the coronavirus severely limiting energy demand and industrial output.
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Nigeria Bets on Solar to Power Its Covid Recovery.
Suleiman Babamanu is implementing the country’s largest investment in solar energy. Suleiman Babamanu’s path to the heart of Nigeria’s biggest solar power program started in disappointment.
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Mysterious Plumes of Methane Gas Appear Over Bangladesh.
Satellites show large, frequent emissions over Dhaka—the latest discovery as scientists hunt for sources of the potent greenhouse gas.
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Despite pandemic shutdowns, carbon dioxide and methane surged in 2020.
Carbon dioxide levels are now higher than at anytime in the past 3.6 million years Levels of the two most important anthropogenic greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide and methane, continued their unrelenting rise in 2020 despite the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus pand
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Net Zero? What’s that all about?
Zero became the biggest number in the investment world last month. More than 40 more asset managers, including Vanguard and BlackRock, signed up to the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative last week, pledging to make their portfolios Net Zero by 2050 or earlier.
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South Africa sets out to tighten 2030 emissions target.
South Africa’s economy is shifting from heavy industry to service sectors, allowing for deeper carbon cuts, but coal lingers in the energy mix.
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A Just Climate Transition for Africa.
In 2021, developed countries must work with low-income, developing, and emerging economies to chart a path toward a low-carbon future – and clear barriers to progress. This means, first and foremost, delivering the funding they promised.
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Arab world’s first nuclear power plant begins operations.
Prospects for nuclear power in rest of region remain uncertain The beginning of the commercial operations for the first reactor of the UAE’s 5.6GW Barakah nuclear power plant marks the first operational nuclear power facility in the Arab World.
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WHO urges countries to build a fairer, healthier world post-COVID-19.
World Health Day 2021 COVID-19 has unfairly impacted some people more harshly than others, exacerbating existing inequities in health and welfare within and between countries.
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100 Women in Finance and UNCDF Partner to Expand Mentorship Networks for Women in Finance to Africa
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the UN aid agency mandated to make finance work for the poor in the world’s Least Developed Countries, today announced that it has established a partnership with 100 Women in Finance (100WF) that will support women in the finance industry and e
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