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Meat-Free Burger Cooks Up 90% Less Emissions
Plant-based ‘meat’ producer Beyond Meat has invented a burger that produces 90% less greenhouse gas emissions than traditional options.
The company says the vegan patties use 99% less water, 93% less land and...
Europe’s Largest Tidal Energy Project to Make a Splash in 2021
A new joint venture has been created to deliver the project off the coast of France.
Europe’s largest planned tidal energy project will start to be built in France by 2021.
Tidal developer SIMEC Atlantis Energy...
Landmark UN Climate Report Urges ‘Rapid and Unprecedented’ Action to Limit Global Warming
It warns human activities have already caused around 1°C of warming above pre-industrial levels and is likely to reach 1.5°C by as early as 2030
Governments across the world must take “rapid, far-reaching...
Ford Hits Manufacturing Emissions Target Eight Years Early
Ford Motor Company said it has achieved its manufacturing emissions reduction target eight years ahead of schedule.
The car manufacturer has set a goal to cut emissions by 30% per vehicle produced by...
MBARI: Wave-Power Bouy
MBARI engineer Andy Hamilton looks out his office window in Moss Landing and points at the waves crashing on the beach below. “Pretty impressive, aren’t they? You’d think there’d be a way...
US Hotel Giants Launch Flurry of Food Waste Trials
Some of the world's most iconic hotels are to trial new approaches to tackling food waste, as part of a major new initiative launched today by WWF, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the...
Renewables Roadshow: How Daylesford’s Windfarm Took Back the Power
From the fertile spud-growing country of Hepburn Shire, 90km northwest of Melbourne, has sprung what many hope will become a revolution in renewable energy in Australia.
On Leonards Hill, just outside the town...
Smart Meters for Electric Energy Might Not be so Smart
Research from the Netherlands has found meters that overestimate energy usage by 582 times.
A study from the University of Twente and Amsterdam's University of Applied Sciences believes that smart meters need extra...
NASA Saves Energy, Water with Modular Supercomputer
The supercomputer at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA, is using an innovative modular approach that is designed to get researchers the answers that they need, while reducing the high...
Building Energy Acquires 4energia
Building Energy, an Italian multinational that operates as a Global Integrated IPP in the renewable energy industry, has signed a purchase agreement to acquire 4energia, an independent energy trader founded to buy...
Continuation of strategic cooperation with Gazpromneft
Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met today with Director General of Gazpromneft PAO Alexander Dyukov to discuss the continuation of the strategic cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and the company Gazprom in...
Shell Fuel Stations in U.K., Netherlands to Add Electric-Car Charging
Both Royal Dutch Shell and France's Total plan to add charging stations, with Shell having already selected some potential locations.
Certain Shell fuel stations in the U.K. and The Netherlands will offer electric-car...
Coal Collapse Pushes UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions Down Four Per Cent in 2015
UK greenhouse gas emissions fell nearly four per cent last year, continuing a long-running trend that has seen the country's emissions drop 38 per cent since 1990.
The latest official statistical release from...
Offshore Wind Energy in U.K. Far Ahead of Lower-Cost Target
The winds of change are blowing harder in the U.K. The price of energy generated by offshore wind farms has been falling steadily, and ahead of schedule too. Costs have fallen 32...
Creating a Panel of Mediators
The Secretariat has launched last week a call for expression of interest aimed at establishing a panel of mediators to provide assistance to the Energy Community Dispute Resolution and Negotiation Centre.
The mediators...
Waste Management Outlook for Mountain Regions
Last week ISWA launched its latest publication “Waste Management Outlook for Mountain Regions”.This new publication is a cooperation with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC) and GRID-Arendal.
The Waste...
