European citizens have succeeded in putting climate change onto the political agenda in a way never seen before. As Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission takes shape, it will be looking to…
The decade of investment (2010-2019) quadruples renewables capacity from 414 GW to about 1,650 GW
Solar capacity alone will have risen to more than 26 times the 2009 level — from 25 GW to an…
The need to invest in new avenues of social income has become the driving force for new inventions in waste management.
Over the years, industry has been tasked with identifying solutions to manage…
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…
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…
The 25 wealthiest dynasties on the planet control $1.4 trillion
The numbers are mind-boggling: $70,000 per minute, $4 million per hour, $100 million per day.
That’s how quickly the fortune of the…
Poland generates most of its electricity from coal, and the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party won 2015 general election partly on promises to sustain the coal industry.
August 1, 2019 (IEEFA Asia Pacific) ̶ BlackRock, the world’s largest fund manager with US$6.5 trillion of assets under management – bigger in value than the third largest economy in the world –…
The Paris Climate Agreement and the Agenda 2030 represent an unprecedented consensus across the the world’s governments, to align our efforts on a comprehensive and ambitious development agenda.…
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, July 12, 2019 – The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved an innovative multinational financing program for Distributed Energy Service…
The European Union (EU) is set to invest in entrepreneurial ideas that will boost renewable energy in Nigeria.
Amb. Ketil Karlsen, Head of the EU Delegation to Nigeria and the Economic Community of…
Thai energy conglomerate PTT Pcl is boosting investments in electricity generation, particularly renewables, given what it says is a “highly uncertain” outlook for oil over the next year.
Worldwide funding of clean-energy projects fell to its lowest level in six years, in a staggering blow to the battle against climate change.
The findings: BloombergNEF found that global investments…
New European solar installations are expected to double over the next three years, according to analysis from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, and will push installed capacity over the 250…
Chinese manufacturer Jetion Solar has supplied 221 MW of its polycrystalline modules to the scheme, which is being developed by Irish firm WElink Energy with state-owned China National Building…
Oil and gas companies have been up for a bumpy ride as more investment funds divest from fossil fuels. It is not only institutional investors such as the Norwegian sovereign fund doing so, but also…