Climate Now: Is Europe doing enough to tackle climate change?
As world powers and polluters end a two-day climate summit with heavy promises to prevent the global warming crisis from spiraling -- are declarations enough and what are the current flaws in Europe's climate policy?
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Bond goes green 007’s next mission: climate change.
Could climate change be the next big James Bond mission and villain? MI6 will begin monitoring other countries to ensure they are playing fair on their climate commitment pledges.
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The Geopolitics of Climate Change.
By tackling climate change and biodiversity loss, everyone will be better off, thanks to better jobs, cleaner air and water, fewer pandemics, and improved health and well-being.
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Guyana: Despite contract terms that heavily favor ExxonMobil, missteps continue to plague productivity and drag down returns.
ExxonMobil announces production cuts and improved financials – transparency needed ExxonMobil Guyana ended the year with good news – local operations reached maximum capacity of 120,000 bpd by end of December.
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Africa at highest risk of instability as oil and gas production wanes.
When it comes to the final frontier for big oil discoveries, it’s not the Guyana-Suriname basin where supergiants like ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM), Hess Corp. (NYSE:HES), and CNOOC (NYSE:CNOOC) have already staked their claims.
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Opinion: How to ensure a green road ahead for Africa.
The world faces a make-or-break moment in the fight against climate change. We are running out of time to make our economies greener and avoid the tipping point when climate change slides out of control. The next 10 years will prove decisive.
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How Africa Should Approach Trade and Industrialization.
The African Continental Free Trade Area is a positive step, but it is no panacea. If Africa is to overcome barriers to structural transformation and industrialization, a broader strategy, based on developmental regionalism, will be needed.
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Low-income countries play carbon leapfrog in green energy shift.
Expansion of Vietnam’s wind and solar farms is proving crucial to powering its economic growth.
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Floating Deep-Water Wind Farms: Size, Power, Challenges.
Offshore fixed-in-place wind farms are not new, but they are providing renewable power in many locations around the world.
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As Biden convenes world leaders, U.S. pledges to cut emissions up to 52 percent by 2030.
‘The stakes could not be higher,’ said one top administration official, as the White House presses other countries to make their own bold promises. President Biden on Thursday will commit the United States to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions as m
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EDF and Uzbekhydroenergo to develop pumped hydro and floating PV.
French power generation company EDF and Uzbekistan’s state hydropower producer, Uzbekhydroenergo, are planning to sign a formal memorandum of understanding and create a 200MW pumped-hydro facility along with floating PV plants in Uzbekistan.
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Working Groups Develop Recommendations for Just, Inclusive Energy Transitions
Five technical working groups are revising draft reports that will feed into a global roadmap for achieving SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy) by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050, consistent with the Paris Agreement on climate change.
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UAE makes argument for renewables while boosting oil production.
The United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s biggest oil producers, said the commercial case for renewable energy has never been stronger.
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PFI: Chinese banks “genuinely trying to exit coal”
The number of coal-fired power plants that still have project finance debt is greatly diminished today, whereas 15 years or so back they were all financed with non-recourse debt.
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Carbon capture goals miss the mark at Boundary Dam 3 coal plant.
Carbon capture at SaskPower’s Boundary Dam 3 facility falls far short of projections. An announcement by a Canadian power company that it’s met carbon capture goals shouldn’t be taken at face value, according to
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Colorado legislature considers bill to divest state pension fund from fossil fuels
Colorado lawmakers, following lead of other major funds, seek to drop coal, oil and gas stocks A Colorado bill that would require the state’s employee retirement fund to dro
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Electricity is infrastructure: Why the grid matters more than ever.
The American Jobs Plan and other government measures could spark a reinvention of the power grid. What counts as infrastructure these days?
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Global reset on climate action leaves Scott Morrison looking like yesterday’s man
At Joe Biden’s virtual summit, achieving net zero by 2050 was considered a given, not something you might do, possibly, if Matt Canavan lets you.
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New Mexico fights to escape powerful grip of big oil and gas.
New Mexico seeks to become an economy less reliant on oil and gas, but the extractive industries continue to exert their might on the state and its people
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