Mayors vow to work together with Youth Climate Activists to deliver Global Green New Deal.
C40 Cities will create a Global Youth Initiative, bringing together leaders of climate movements from all over the world, to work with with mayors. Announcement comes out of several days of collaboration at C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen
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Industrial Applications of Renewable Energy.
We tend to blame meat-eaters and plastic-straw-users when it comes to climate change.
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SADC signs deal with ARC for improved regional response to disasters.
The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) has taken a huge step regarding disaster risk management and financing in the region after
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Top investment banks provide billions to expand fossil fuel industry.
Exclusive: analysis reveals lenders provided $700bn to expand sector since Paris climate pact.
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How real is Saudi Arabia's interest in renewable energy?
Ambitious plans have not been matched by progress, but there may finally be signs of change. It was the largest renewables project ever announced: $200bn (£158bn) worth of solar panels stretching across hundreds of square kilometres of the Saudi Arabian desert.
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Why the shift toward renewable energy is not enough.
This is an excerpt from "Changing Tides: An Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene" by Alejandro Frid. Reproduced with permission from New Society Publishers. The book releases Oct. 15.
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German rail operator holds Europe-wide PPA tender for green power.
German railway operator Deutsche Bahn [DBN.UL] has launched a tender for 5% of its annual electricity supply from renewable sources for the next eight years, aiming to get nearer to its long-term target of 100% green power by 2038.
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EDF Renewables commissions 130MWp in solar energy capacity in Egypt.
PARIS - EDF Renewables said it had commissioned 130 megawatt power worth of solar energy capacity in Egypt, as it steps up the pace of its development in North Africa.
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Scientists develop robot inspectors for offshore wind farms.
Scientists have developed fully autonomous robots which are able to inspect wind farms for damage. Unlike many drones, these do not require a human operator and can assess the integrity of offshore wind turbines.
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Wind Resistance: The Race To Meet Americans’ Growing Demand for Renewable Energy.
As more states and companies want to use renewable energy, where does it come from? And how does that demand impact the communities that produce it? Renewable energy production in the United States is at record levels.
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Eden Project to begin drilling for clean geothermal energy.
Cornwall council and EU will fund scheme to tap into ‘hot rocks’ beneath attraction.
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Unprecedented momentum for green hydrogen.
Hydrogen from renewable energy could play a central role in the global energy transformation, the latest report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) finds.
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So, You’ve Got 100% Renewable Energy — Now What?
Manufacturers seeking to decarbonize have a long row to hoe. They can order up a package of renewable energy and carbon offsets to power their factories and offices, but that’s just for starters. To be honest about the effort, they have to dig deeper.
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Gulf sets a new global benchmark for solar energy production.
The submission of two tariffs below $1.8 cents a kilowatt-hour (kWh) for the fifth phase of Dubai’s Mohammed bin Rashid (MBR) renewable energy park marks the latest world record to be set by the Gulf’s burgeoning solar market.
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Trump's push to save coal is failing. Coal demand to plunge to 42-year low.
New York - President Donald Trump's mission to revive America's coal industry is failing.
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Eskom: 75% renewable energy battery storage will be in Western Cape.
World Bank loan condition to Eskom was to install several clean energy projects in South Africa. On 9 October 2019, the Standing Committee on Finance, Economic Opportunities, and Tourism convened.
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Fossil fuel support is rising again in a threat to climate change efforts.
Fossil-fuel subsidies are environmentally harmful, costly, and distortive.
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Are Concrete Blocks the Next Batteries?
This company has a unique plan for storing renewable energy.
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Scotland Could Leave the United Kingdom Over Brexit—and Green Energy.
The debate over how to best marshal the country's alternative energy sources may affect a new independence referendum. EDINBURGH, Scotland—Five years ago, when Scotland voted in a landmark referendum to remain part of the United Kingdom, the issue of North Sea oil—who owns it and how it
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Poll: Ohio voters support renewable energy and oppose the state’s recent nuclear subsidy.
A new poll released today by Climate Nexus finds that Ohio voters support a broad array of policies to address climate impacts and increase production of renewable energy in the state, and they want their elected officials to support those policies.
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