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…
Exclusive: analysis reveals lenders provided $700bn to expand sector since Paris climate pact.
The world’s largest investment banks have provided more than $700bn of financing for the fossil fuel…
The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) has taken a huge step regarding disaster risk management and financing in the region after signing a deal with the African Risk Capacity (ARC).
We tend to blame meat-eaters and plastic-straw-users when it comes to climate change. However, according to a report released in 2017, only 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global greenhouse…
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…
A seismic shift is under way. According to author and futurist, Jeremy Rifkin(The Third Industrial Revolution, The Zero Marginal Cost Society), we are in the final phases of the fossil fuel era. In…
Business leaders, practitioners, policy makers, researchers and scholars are gathering in Doha to attend Qatar Sustainability Summit (QSS) on October 27 & 28. THE AGENDA IS SIMPLE – drive climate…
Twenty Universities in the UK have struck a deal to buy renewable energy directly from British wind farms.
The Energy Consortium (TEC) has established an aggregated power purchase agreement (PPA)…
New report shows that multilateral development banks funding for renewables fell by half a billion dollars last year.
This despite need for clean energy investment to rapidly increase to tackle…
As Switzerland’s glaciers melt, dangerous rockfalls become more likely and towns are forced to live under an existential threat
The thunderous roar that resounded through Bregaglia in Switzerland …
UN money will help South African PV players underpin project revenues without the need to resort to the government, after a year when Eskom’s woes have cast doubts on the state-offtaker route.
The…
As Germany prepares to pass its climate protection plan through 2030, the government is trying to decide whether to prioritize solar or wind energy. The latest version of the plan leans toward solar…
A consortium led by Saudi Arabia-based ACWA Power had reportedly lodged a world record low price bid of $16.953 ($A25) a megawatt hour for a 900MW solar park in Dubai.
The bid – reported by…
In an interview with EURACTIV Germany, Karsten Neuhoff, a climate expert and professor, spoke about Germany’s hotly-debated climate protection bill, stressing that a clear regulatory framework with “…
With the rising share of renewable energy, questions are being raised regarding the future of coal-based power plants.
Kevin Cogo, who leads GE Steam Power’s rotating equipment product line globally…
Over a dozen rows of blue solar panels stand in a grassy lot. This is the new solar field opened by Clif Bar. The panels will produce about a third of the energy needs for the company’s manufacturing…
Green gas is being talked up of late as one new way forward for decarbonisation. So what exactly is green gas? It could, in fact, be a lot of different things, some of which are far from green. In…
Mpumalanga is not alone in facing a dicey future: Coal regions around the world are in a similar predicament and some governments have already taken steps to compensate coal workers where mines are…
Green technology has come a long way. The next challenge for the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory is to develop ways to recycle the recycling infrastructure.
The clean energy sector faces a…