World Health Day 2021
COVID-19 has unfairly impacted some people more harshly than others, exacerbating existing inequities in health and welfare within and between countries. For World Health Day,…
Experts say extreme weather including droughts will become more common as planet heats.
Recent sandstorms that shrouded Beijing in a post-apocalyptic orange haze and intensive droughts in other…
Lord Goldsmith said the new rule would ‘tackle deforestation’, but environmental campaigners warned it does not go far enough
The UK government is set to introduce a new law to stop businesses from…
At a time when 600 containers of hazardous and toxic waste destined for Tunisia have been blocked by the Italian customs authorities, civil society activists from the port city of Sousse gathered on…
Drax in Yorkshire burns wood pellets to generate electricity, but forests cannot be replaced quickly enough, say campaigners.
The UK’s plan to burn more trees to generate “renewable” electricity has…
It's a small change that can make a very big difference.
Every day, some 13,000 tons of microfibers are released into European waters — that’s equivalent to two garbage trucks of small textile…
Prospects for nuclear power in rest of region remain uncertain
The beginning of the commercial operations for the first reactor of the UAE’s 5.6GW Barakah nuclear power plant marks the first…
Emissions regulated under the European Union's (EU) carbon market decreased by more than 12% last year, with the coronavirus severely limiting energy demand and industrial output.
New analysis from…
Leading utilities establish global best practice on how their sector and its value chain can advance the ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Geneva, 15 March 2021: The World…
The guideline about recommended practice for floating solar power projects of DNV was developed through collaboration with 24 industry participants
DNV published the world’s first recommended…
LONDON - The promise to return several Benin Bronzes from three Western institutions to the former Kingdom of Benin in Nigeria was celebrated by many. But returning all the artifacts looted by…
Research shows rising temperatures since 1960s have acted as handbrake to agricultural yield of crops and livestock.
The climate crisis is already eating into the output of the world’s agricultural…
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine tackles a controversial question: Is solar geoengineering – an approach designed to cool Earth by reflecting sunlight…
South Africa’s economy is shifting from heavy industry to service sectors, allowing for deeper carbon cuts, but coal lingers in the energy mix.
South Africa is proposing to deepen its emissions cuts…
LONDON (Reuters) - A record 260 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy capacity was added worldwide in 2020, up 50% from the year before, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said, as…
India-based renewable energy project developer Greenko Energy Holdings has announced a new venture in the pumped hydro storage segment.
According to media reports, Greenko plans to invest US$4.3…
Economies are gearing up for return to fossil fuel use instead of forging green recovery, warns Fatih Birol.
New energy policies are urgently needed to put countries on the path to net zero…
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the UN aid agency mandated to make finance work for the poor in the world’s Least Developed Countries, today announced that it has established a…
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