Origin gets approval for 2,800MWh battery to replace Australia’s biggest coal plant
Origin Energy says it has received planning approval from the NSW government for the 2,800MWh big battery that will at least partially replace the Eraring power station it plans to close in 2025.
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Australia’s first battery giga-factory nearly complete, signs up local suppliers
Australia’s first giga-scale battery manufacturing facility – being built in the heart of New South Wales’ coal country – is nearing completion and has signed up three new Australian suppliers to ensure near 100 per cent Australian made components.
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BW Ideol and Tohoku Electric Power start first stage of commercial-scale floating wind project in Iwate prefecture, Japan
BW Ideol and Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
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The first Greece New European Bauhaus Festival in June 2022
The Festival brings together people from all walks of life to debate and shape our future.
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Pollution kills over 9 million people every year, 66% more than two decades ago
Industrial pollution is the largest problem, mainly concentrated in Asia Pollution, unwanted waste of human origin released into air, land, water, and
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Critical climate indicators broke records in 2021, says UN
World Meteorological Organization says extreme weather wreaked heavy toll on human lives
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Extinction obituary: the sudden, sad disappearance of the Christmas Island forest skink
Gump was the last lizard of her kind when she died in 2014, and her demise should be ‘a scar on our conscience’
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‘World is at boiling point’: humanity must redefine relationship with nature, says report
Stockholm institute calls for ‘bold science-based decision-making’ to tackle climate, social and economic crises
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Airlines miss all but one target - report
UK airlines have missed all climate targets set since 2000 except
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Deutsche Bank faces AGM protests over fossil fuel finance
Germany - On Thursday 19th May climate justice activists will take part in a series of coordinated protests targeting Deutsche Bank on the day of the bank’s Annual General Meeting.
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REPowerEU: EREF gives a critical welcome to the new EU Commission acceleration pathway towards a greenhouse gas-free Europe
Yesterday’s launch of the European Commission’s new and revised pr
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'Now or never' | UN climate experts say emissions must peak by 2025 to stave off catastrophe
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned “it’s now or never” in the fight against global warming, with greenhouse gas emissions needing to peak by 2025 at the latest to stave off the worst impacts.
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Climate change swells odds of record India, Pakistan heatwaves
Climate change makes record-breaking heatwaves in northwest India and Pakistan 100 times more likely, a Met Office study finds. The region should now expect a heatwave that exceeds the record temperatures seen in 2010 once every three years.
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North Sea offshore wind to help repower the EU
On 18 May 2022 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen participated in an Offshore Wind Summit with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
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1 in 7 people globally currently at high risk due to lack of access to cooling
These numbers are set to rise by 2030 without action to achieve universal electrification and end extreme poverty.
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EU announces 'full switch' of existing grey hydrogen production to green H2, backed by carbon contracts
The European Commission (EC) will roll out carbon contracts for difference (CCfD) subsidies (see panel below) for green hydrogen using cash from its Innovation Fund “to support a full switch of the existing hydrogen production in industrial processes from natural gas to renewables and the
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Climate change making heatwaves more intense
The chances of a record-breaking heatwave in north-west India and Pakistan has been made over 100 times more likely because of climate change says a Met Office study.
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'White elephants' | Green hydrogen will be cheaper than blue H2 in all parts of world by 2030, says BNEF
An expected tenfold reduction in the cost of hydrogen electrolysers coupled with ever-cheaper renewable energy will mean that green H2 will be cheaper to produce than gas-powered blue worldwide by 2030, according to BloombergNEF global head of strategy, Kobad Bhavnagri.
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BREAKING: 40% of Fossil Fuels Now Under Development Must Stay in the Ground
Nearly 40% of the oil, gas, and coal now under development around the world will have to stay in the ground to give humanity a 50-50 chance of holding global warming to 1.5°C, a study team led by Oil Change International concludes in a paper published yesterday in the journal Environmental Resear
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6 Ways the G20 Can Maximize the Role of Forests in Climate Action
Despite current targets and commitments to combat climate change, global temperatures look set to increase by
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