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These Two Words Can Solve the Climate Crisis
If you want to see a solution to the climate crisis in your lifetime, they might be the two most important words you hear this year: carbon pricing.
Sure, the crisis is a...
Germany Onshore Wind Auction Fetches ‘Unexpected Low’ Price
Germany's first competitive wind power auction under its new feed-in tariff regime has defied expectations by delivering an average bid price of just 5.71 Euro cents.
The country's Federal Energy Network Agency -...
Nation’s Largest Offshore Wind Project Gets Approved
The Public Service Commission (PSC) granted Skipjack Offshore Energy and U.S. Wind offshore wind renewable energy credits Thursday enabling them to move forward with their proposals to build 368 megawatts of offshore...
San Francisco’s Rapid Transit Likely Nation’s First to Run on 100% Renewables
Taking public transportation already makes a big difference in reducing your carbon footprint. Now, the San Francisco Bay Area's rapid transit system is reducing its own carbon footprint by committing to 100...
Planet Breaches 410 ppm for First Time in Human History
The amount of carbon in the Earth's atmosphere is now officially off the charts as the planet last week breached the 410 parts per million (ppm) milestone for the first time in...
Oklahoma Ends Wind Subsidy Despite Generous Tax Breaks for Fossil Fuel Industry
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed a bill into law Monday that will end a state tax credit several years early for electricity generated by wind power.
Under the new legislation, wind farms that...
Irena Vojáčková-Sollorano: Green Climate Fund Will Be the Biggest Financial Mechanism
Climate change is a global problem and the obligation of each country is to actively participate in the fight against all these changes. Serbia plans to ratify the Paris Climate Agreement by...
Climate Scoreboard: EU Member States Fail To Convince With Patchy 2050 Plans
Only eleven EU Member States delivered a 2050 emissions reduction strategy by 2015 as required by EU law - and the strategies that were submitted vary hugely in quality. These are the...
Upsolar Charts Course to Bring Floating Solar to European Waters
Buoyant solar panels floating on the surface of lakes and reservoirs could soon become a common sight across Europe, if one PV manufacturer has its way.
Hong Kong-based PV manufacturer Upsolar two days...
MEPs vote to ban the use of palm oil in biofuels
MEPs have voted overwhelmingly to ban biofuels made from vegetable oils including palm oil by 2020, to prevent the EU’s renewable transport targets from inadvertently contributing to deforestation.
A new palm oil regulation,...
Trump has Launched a Blitzkrieg in the Wars on Science and Earth’s Climate
Yesterday, Donald Trump signed an executive order taking aim at America’s climate policies. On the heels of a report finding that the world needs to halve its carbon pollution every decade to...
UK Nuclear Decommissioning Debacle Costs Government Nearly £100m
The government has been forced to pay nearly £100m in a settlement with two US companies for mishandling the way it awarded a £6.1bn nuclear decommissioning deal.
Ministers have ordered an inquiry headed...
World Abandoning Coal in Dramatic Style Raises Hope of Avoiding Dangerous Global Warming, Says Report
As Donald Trump pledges to put coal miners back to work in the United States, the rest of the world appears to have suddenly started moving in the opposite direction, abandoning the...
Radmila Šerović: Waste Materials of One Industry Will Become Raw Materials of Another
The Chief of the Department for Waste Management at the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection is Ms Radmila Šerović who has been working in the state administration since 2002. More precisely,...
Amazon Delivers ‘Win-Win’ Solar Rooftop Drive
Amazon has opened up a new front in its renewable energy push, announcing plans to install rooftop solar arrays on 50 distribution and sorting centres worldwide by 2020.
The ecommerce giant confirmed yesterday...
Banks Bags £210m for UK Treble
Banks Renewables has secured £210m in finance to support the construction of three UK wind farms totalling 151MW.
The UK outfit worked with lenders Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions, Santander, ING, National Australia...