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IEA forecasts global surge in electricity demand amid shift to clean energy
Jan 24, 2024 (UPI)
The Paris-based organization, which works to steer global energy policies, published its Electricity 2024 report on the outlook for electricity and carbon emiss...
French waste group Veolia hungry for lost UK energy
Jan 24, 2024 (AFP)
French waste company Veolia's incineration plant in south London handles some 1,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste per day, heating water to produce steam that ...
EU rules have failed to cut car C02 emissions: report
Jan 24, 2024 (AFP)
Since 2012, cars sold in the EU must meet targets for limiting CO2 emissions, but these had little impact as emissions from diesel vehicles since then held stea...
Trade barriers can slow energy transition: IEA chief
Jan 17, 2024 (AFP)
Clean energy is among the hot topics this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with China denouncing "barriers to green trade" and the EU voi...
EU debates 2040 milestone towards carbon-neutral future
Jan 15, 2024 (AFP)
The first of those has already been set: achieving at least a 55 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, compared with a 1990 baseline. Now, the ...
US reduces emissions in 2023 - but not fast enough: report
Jan 11, 2024 (AFP)
The world's second biggest emitter has pledged to halve its emissions by 2030 compared to 2005 levels -- meaning the 2023 rate of decline "needs to more than tr...
Private sector funding key to climate transition, World Bank chief says
Jan 04, 2024 (AFP)
It currently takes 27 months, on average, before "the first dollar goes out the door," Ajay Banga said in an interview in his brightly lit office in the Bank's ...
China, climate in focus at Japan-ASEAN summit
Dec 15, 2023 (AFP)
Beijing claims almost the entire South China Sea, a vital trade corridor, and its increasingly aggressive behaviour in areas also claimed by Southeast Asian nat...
Asia's climate activists lukewarm on COP deal that 'falls short'
Dec 14, 2023 (AFP)
The deal, approved by nearly 200 countries on Wednesday, contains their first call for a transition from fossil fuels, language hailed by US President Joe Biden...
Policies to support energy transition losers may fall short
Dec 14, 2023 (AFP)
The Biden administration, through measures such as the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, points to billions of dollars in support targeting communities disfavored i...
'Where is the money?' COP28 deal throws spotlight on funding
Dec 14, 2023 (AFP)
The agreement was a compromise wrestled out of countries with sharply conflicting interests by the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, hosting COP28 in the last days...
UN draft deal calls for 'transitioning away' from fossil fuels
Dec 13, 2023 (AFP)
After 13 days of talks and several sleepless nights in a country built on oil wealth, the Emirati president of the UN-led COP28 summit banged a gavel to signal ...
UN climate summit runs overtime as fury mounts on fossil fuels
Dec 12, 2023 (AFP)
The Emirati president of the COP28 summit had pressed the nearly 200 nations to reach an ambitious deal by the official end of talks at 11 am (0700 GMT), in an ...
UN climate talks home in on fossil fuel deal
Dec 11, 2023 (AFP)
With 24 hours to go before the official end of COP28 in Dubai, a new draft deal was expected in the morning in the hope that the right language may have finally...
COP28 pledges meet only 30% of needed energy emission cuts: IEA
Dec 10, 2023 (AFP)
"While the pledges are positive steps forward in tackling the energy sector's greenhouse gas emissions, they would not be nearly enough to move the world onto a...
Are COPs useful? A defence from five participants
Dec 07, 2023 (AFP)
Here, five participants at this year's COP28 defend the meetings, insisting that without them, the planet would be in much worse shape. - John Kerry, US climate...
France adopts corporate sustainability reporting
Dec 07, 2023 (AFP)
The EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) came into force at the beginning of 2023 but it needs to be transposed into local legislation in ea...
'Unabated': a word to split the world at COP28
Dec 07, 2023 (AFP)
With the world experiencing its hottest year on record and devastating heat, wildfires and flooding battering communities across the planet, negotiators at the ...
'Climate conscious' banks lend more to polluters; Denmark wants 90% cut by 2040
Dec 06, 2023 (AFP)
Banks have a key role in financing the green transition, and their lending practices and environmental standards are under growing scrutiny. The four ECB econom...
COP28 draft agreement includes option to do nothing on fossil fuels
Dec 05, 2023 (AFP)
The fate of oil, gas and coal is the thorniest issue being thrashed out at the COP28 UN climate talks in Dubai and divisions around their future have dominated ...
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