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How green is Europe?
Comprehensive comparative statistics always take a while to assemble, and the task is bound to be even more difficult when one has to deal first with 28 separate national entities. As a result, the European Union still has no official
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Richard Branson Joins Forces With Amory Lovins in Climate Fight
Sir Richard Branson’s climate change-fighting foundation is aligning forces with one of the world’s most heady alternative energy think tanks to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy. “Together we can go further, faster,” Branson, the entrepreneur who founded Virgin
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Germany: environmentally harmful subsidies amount to over 52 billion euros
Even as Germany focuses much effort and funding on climate protection measures, it continues to subsidise environmentally harmful policies and technology, according to a study by the Federal Environmental Agency (UBA). The report, which looked at environmentally harmful subsidies in
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In pictures: China’s coal industry pollutes the Yellow River basin
China’s Yellow River – which supplies more than 50 cities and large swathes of China’s agricultural land – is being contaminated by industrial chemicals and its embankments undermined by coal mining according to a field investigation by Greenpeace China. The
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The cost of nuclear electricity: France after Fukushima
The Fukushima disaster has lead the French government to release novel cost information relative to its nuclear electricity program allowing us to compute a levelized cost. We identify a modest escalation of capital cost and a larger than expected operational
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Citing Health, Environment Concerns, New York Moves To Ban Fracking
The state of New York has banned fracking. After six years of study, the state says there are too many health and environmental questions involved in the controversial drilling method. Source: NPR Date: December 2014 Photo Credits: CREDO.fracking Read the article
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Is 100% Renewable Energy Feasible for Every Country?
Countries around the world currently have very impressive plans to supply all of their energy needs with renewable energy options. How do they plan on doing it? Amazingly, countries are not aiming for total change. Instead, they are implementing incremental goals,
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Interview with Michele Appendino: why I set up Behind Energy
Michele Appendino, Chairman of Behind Energy, talks with Entrepreneur Country Global about his latest venture. Michele Appendino founded AME ventures in 2005. AME Ventures is an investment holding, focused on early stage companies active in the internet sector and in renewable energies
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IEA’s message for youth on climate change
The IEA has released a video, specifically for you, our next generation of leaders! Follow along as Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven narrates the journey of her own life and the development of the IEA, set in the context
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UN members agree deal at Lima climate talks
Delegates have approved a framework for setting national pledges to be submitted to a summit next year. Differences over the draft text caused the two-week talks in Lima, Peru, to overrun by two days.Environmental groups said the deal was an
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