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‘Renewables Are Cheapest Energy Option’ When Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Removed, Says REN21
This expansion happened in a year when the global economy and energy use both grew, but without a matching rise in emissions of carbon dioxide—the main greenhouse gas targeted in efforts to restrain global warming. The report by REN21, a global renewable
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Energy transition can’t wait any longer
Interview with Giulio Volpi renewable energy expert at European Commission How will a single electricity system be organised in the Energy Union? What level of development will renewables have? The European Commission is promoting the creation of a continent-wide integrated energy system that
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What’s really warming the world?
Skeptics of manmade climate change offer various natural causes to explain why the Earth has warmed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880. But can these account for the planet’s rising temperature? Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has tried to calculate the
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Google to open a green data center in Alabama inside a former coal-fired power plant
The search giant announced some days ago that it was opening a 14th data center. This one is in Alabama, inside a former coal-fired power plant. Google has also cut a deal with the Tennessee Valley Authority, the region’s electric power
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Insurance gains clout as climate change solution for the poor
Efforts to insure vulnerable people such as poor farmers against extreme weather and other climate risks are picking up pace, following a recent G7 commitment to extend cover in developing nations and a global insurance industry forum this week. U.N.
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Rich countries sweep billions in public finance for coal under the rug as climate deadlines loom
Over the last eight years, while climate impacts accelerate, country governments have channelled more than US$ 73 billion of public money into coal projects. The finance, which amounts to US$9 billion a year, is causing as much pollution as the
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100% clean and renewable energy roadmaps for the 50 United States
One potential way to combat ongoing climate change, eliminate air pollution mortality, create jobs and stabilize energy prices involves converting the world’s entire energy infrastructure to run on clean, renewable energy. This is a daunting challenge. But now, in a
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In 2014 CO2 emissions in the EU estimated to have decreased by 5% compared with 2013
Eurostat estimates that in 2014 carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel combustion decreased by 5.0% in the European Union (EU), compared with the previous year. CO2 emissions are a major contributor to global warming and account for around 80%
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Pope Francis, in Sweeping Encyclical, Calls for Swift Action on Climate Change
Pope Francis on Thursday called for a radical transformation of politics, economics and individual lifestyles to confront environmental degradation and climate change, as his much-awaited papal encyclical blended a biting critique of consumerism and irresponsible development with a plea for
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IEA sets out pillars for success at COP21
A peak in global energy-related emissions could be achieved as early as 2020 and at no net economic cost, the International Energy Agency said on Monday in its new World Energy Outlook Special Report on Energy and Climate Change. The
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