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Nextracker Single Axis Tracker in Kenya - Malindi Solar Project

Last month I wrote an article about solar tracker systems. This article is a supplement to that article.

Energy Technology Solutions

Climate crisis inflicting huge ‘hidden costs’ on mental health.

Vicious circle of climate impacts, trauma and depression must be broken, say scientists. The climate crisis is damaging the mental health of hundreds of millions of people around the world but the huge costs are hidden, scientists have warned.

Climate

UN Secretary-General’s Remarks to Clean Energy Ministerial Santiago, Chile

Friends, I thank the Government of Chile for hosting the sixth Mission Innovation Ministerial and for launching Mission Innovation 2.0. Mission Innovation plays a crucial role in accelerating solutions to address climate disruption.

Energy Climate

Zero to 60% in 14 years – South Australia’s success in transitioning to renewables.

Seven important lessons for energy planners around the globe in transitioning grids from fossil fuels to renewables. South Australia offers vital lessons for other jurisdictions transitioning from a fossil fuel-based electricity grid to a low emissions, high renewables grid, finds a

Energy Climate

Gas industry ‘kicking the can down the road’ with green hydrogen.

Several current and former policymakers expressed skepticism that hydrogen and renewable natural gas are mature enough to play a major role in their states’ transition from natural gas.

Energy

Boosting self reliance among refugees through satellite connectivity.

East Africa and Uganda, in particular, host some of the largest refugee populations in the world who fled conflict and violence in especially from South Sudan and DR Congo.

Energy Technology Solutions

Half a million new workers needed to meet global wind demand by 2025 – report

Building and maintaining wind turbines will create plenty of new jobs in the coming years, but the health and safety of employees must remain front and centre of all training, says the not-for-profit Global Wind Organisation.

Technology Solutions

What a Dutch Court Ruling Means for Shell and Big Oil.

Climate lawyers are preparing to take on more fossil-fuel companies after a Dutch court ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc to cut its emissions faster than planned, on the grounds that the oil giant is violating human right

Energy Climate

Biodiversity Disclosures Set to Become Part of Company Reporting.

Taskforce backed by French President Emmanuel Macron presses financial-services and other industries to more closely assess their nature-related risks.

Environment

Simulations Find Answers Blowing in the Wind

The Energy Exchange explores the complex and critical intersection of energy, money and technology.

Energy Technology Solutions

EU Eyes First-of-a-Kind Border Levy in Climate Fight

The European Union is planning to slap an import levy on steel, cement and aluminum produced in countries with lower environmental standards, as it seeks to become a world leader on climate without harming domestic producers.

Climate

Solar panels and water canals could form a real power couple in California.

Solar canals save water, create energy, and protect natural lands all at the same time.

Energy

Big Oil’s Green-Spending Boost Isn’t Enough, IEA Says.

The oil and gas industry is set to boost investments in clean energy this year, but that still won’t be enough to put the world on a path to limit a dangerous rise in global temperatures.

Climate

Nuclear power euphoria in Indonesia is all smoke and mirrors with no current technical, financial or market viability

In growing energy markets like Indonesia, decision makers are facing a barrage of pro-nuclear media coverage as the nuclear industry floods the market with panels and webinars focused on the potential of nuclear power.

Energy Environment

To Meet Net-Zero Ambitions, Global Wind Workforce Must Keep Pace

The global wind industry will need to train upwards of 480,000 more people to Global Wind Organisation (GWO) standards over the next five years to meet global wind power market demand in line with health and

Energy

Satellites may have been underestimating the planet's warming for decades.

A new comparison of measurements finds that some don't add up.

Climate Technology Solutions

Peatland Restoration worldwide – where do we stand in 2021? Webinar 14.06.2021

An IPS webinar on the occasion of UN World Environment Day, World Peatlands Day

Climate Environment

COP26: Bridging the gap of climate ambition.

This FTSE Russell paper estimates that the resulting global trajectory will lead to a 2.9°C warming ‒ a level that still falls short from the “well below 2°C” Paris target.

Climate

Allowing ExxonMobil’s Guyana oil drilling will illegally exacerbate climate crisis, lawsuit claims

Extraction will lead to emissions of billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases, threatening right to live in a healthy environment, court case argues

Climate

‘This isn’t ideological’: reluctant ‘green hero’ behind Exxon coup.

Tiny hedge fund Engine No 1 says a strong climate strategy simply makes good business sense.

Energy