Sweden's highest peak just lost its title and climate change is to blame.
Scientists warn "the destiny looks poor" for Scandinavia's glaciers as Sweden's highest peak melts away. The glacier-covered southern peak of Sweden's Kebnekaise mountain stands at 2,095.6 metres tall, but that is no longer as impressive as it once was.
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Over-capacity, water shortage and renewable power exerts pressure on thermal power plants.
According to the report three major challenges that are expected to intensify in the years ahead, are over-building of coal-fired capacity, declining water supplies and increasing competition from renewables.
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Goldman Sachs’ renewable company scores US$4 billion for clean energy projects.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management has reached the final close on capital commitments to Goldman Sachs Renewable Power, a private company that invests in renewable energy assets.
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Los Angeles OKs a deal for record-cheap solar power and battery storage.
For a long time, there were two big knocks against solar power: It’s expensive, and it can’t keep the lights on after sundown. A contract approved Tuesday by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power shows how much that reality has changed.
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Re-energised Global Climate Action Portal Features Country Pages.
Bonn, 17 September – Today, the Global Climate Action portal – previously known as NAZCA (the Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action) – relaunches with a new interactive map and country profile pages.
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The good, the bad and the ugly: the nations leading and failing on climate action.
This piece is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.
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Leading countries blocked from speaking at UN climate summit.
Secretary-general takes tough line on select coal-supporting nations.
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Massive Bylong valley coalmine in NSW blocked on environmental grounds.
Independent planning commission refuses South Korean company Kepco’s $290m proposal.
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Greenhouse gas emissions on the rise from road transport in the UK.
Road transport emissions are on the rise in the UK, despite heavy investment to reduce it. Road transport emissions are on the rise in the UK, despite heavy investment to reduce it.
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What’s Behind the World’s Biggest Climate Victory? Capitalism.
The chief executive of the world’s largest private coal company sat before a group of U.S. lawmakers who wanted to know whether the fuel had a future.
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Editorial: If California demands an end to plastic waste, the world’s manufacturers will listen. So do it already.
Will California show the nation how to take on the enormous problem of single-use plastic?
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‘Climigration’: when communities must move because of climate change.
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.
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Faster pace of climate change is 'scary', former chief scientist says.
Extreme events linked to climate change, such as the heatwave in Europe this year, are occurring sooner than expected, an ex-chief scientist says.
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Rock Climbing, Climate Science and Leadership.
I was 18 when I started college at the University of East Anglia in England. I had just completed eight years at a British Army school in Germany.
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HAEE Seminar: The Geopolitics of Energy in SE Europe.
The Geopolitics of Energy in SE Europe "The Geopolitics of Energy in SE Europe" @ a glance: When: 25 September 2019
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Intersolar India: 3rd ARE Micro-Grid Workshop & Pavilion (Bangalore, 27-29 Nov 2019).
ARE is looking for more supporters to organise the third edition of its yearly
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UN Secretary-General announces new Climate Action Summit jobs initiative; urges countries to join.
New York, 18 September—United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today announced a new initiative aimed at ensuring that decent job creation and protecting livelihoods are at the center of countries’ efforts to boost climate action, and urged countries to join the initiat
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Can the 'Great Green Wall' fight climate change in Africa?
"The Great Green Wall" is an ambitious African-led initiative to grow an 8,000-kilometre forest across the entire width of Africa's Sahel.
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Launch of the Global Hub on the Governance for the SDGs.
Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development Speakers include: • Mr. Angel Gurría, Secretary General, OECD • Mr. Achim Steiner, Administrator, UNDP • Mr. Iván Duque Márquez, President of Colombia (TBC)
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