Fossil fuel divestment effort slowly picking up steam.
Earlier this year, one of Meryam Omi’s deputies at Legal & General Investment Management sat down with board members and managers from Exxon Mobil Corp. to discuss how the oil giant could address climate change.
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ADB’s Yoi: Development bank backing away from new coal investments in Indonesia.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said it is staying away from coal-related projects in Indonesia and continues to open itself to gas and renewable energy investments, joining the wave of diversion by hundreds of financial institutions around the globe.
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Mali gold miner turns to off-grid solar, storage to save money, cut fuel oil use.
B2Gold’s board approved “one of the largest” off-grid hybrid solar/heavy fuel oil power plants to power its mine in Mali. The company made the announcement yesterday in its second-quarter results.
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Solar-plus-storage to cover 25% of electricity demand of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
The Swiss battery maker Leclanché will build a 35.6 MW / 44.2 MWh solar-plus-storage power plant, which will provide with clean power state-owned St.Kitts electric utility Skelec over a 20-year period.
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Hanergy sets new efficiency record for heterojunction module.
Chinese thin film producer Hanergy has set a new record of 24.85% module efficiency for silicon heterojunction technology.
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‘Unprecedented’ collaboration between EV manufacturers could launch large-scale transition.
Energy analysts from the United Kingdom have found that many of the world’s largest car manufacturers that are launching EVs, or looking to launch EVs, are engaged in an “unprecedented” level of collaboration in order to share the costs and risks inherent in EV development.
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Neoen gets green light for PV-wind-battery hub in South Australia.
French renewables developer Neoen has won development approval from the South Australian government for a major renewable energy project, with 125 MW of wind, 150 MW of solar PV and 130 MW/400 MWh of lithium-ion battery storage.
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Understanding the water-energy-food nexus in a warming climate.
All of nature is infinitely connected. It is therefore no surprise that there are strong interdependencies between the resources that the land surface provides.
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US power generators reporting savings, other benefits from phasing out coal.
Power generators across the U.S. are not only sticking to plans to retire coal-fired power plants despite the pro-coal Trump administration, they are touting the cost savings of doing so while pushing a further transition away from the fuel.
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Solar energy, the Barefoot College and Enel in Africa.
The sun always means new beginnings. In the old life, light came from candles and kerosene lamps with diesel generators providing electricity for just a few hours a day. But then Luisa, Norma and Liliana crossed paths with the Barefoot College.
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Open Africa Power, energy is youth.
Christine is a Zimbabwean student who dreams of working in energy policy and is committed to increasing the involvement of women in the sector. Ujunwa from Nigeria is a development financial specialist who works for a private company making investments in clean energy.
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How the world’s dirtiest industries have learned to pollute our politics.
The fossil-fuel lobby is threatened by public concern over the climate crisis. So it’s buying influence to get the results it wants. The tragedy of our times is that the gathering collapse of our life support systems has coincided with the age of public disservice.
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This Land Is the Only Land There Is.
Here are seven ways of understanding the IPCC’s newest climate warning.
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Beyond Coal: How People Power Will Transform Europe’s Energy System.
We are facing a climate crisis.
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Famous climatologists, artists and I get personal on why we do climate work.
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Reporting on the State of the Climate in 2018.
International authoritative climate report states 2018 was the fourth warmest year on record. A new State of the Climate report confirmed that 2018 was the fourth warmest year in records dating to the mid-1800s.
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The urgent case for green finance.
Existing sources of capital will not suffice to tackle climate change concerns. Here’s what needs to be done.
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The renewable energy con: how the 'clean' power you buy comes from fossil fuels.
Ηouseholds on “100pc renewable” energy tariffs may be getting as little as 3.7pc of their energy from truly green sources. Renewable tariffs are cheaper than ever with the best energy deal on the market currently a green tariff from supplier Outfox the Market.
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Company plans to build $7.5 billion 'smart mini-city' in Las Vegas.
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) – An extremely ambitious $7.5 billion real estate proj
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Installing solar panels on agricultural lands maximizes their efficiency.
The most productive places on Earth for solar power are farmlands, according to an Oregon State University study.
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