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Efforts to clean up power sector too slow: watchdog
Sep 19, 2023 (AFP)
The report comes days after the United Nations said the world was facing catastrophic climate change and was perilously far from meeting goals for slashing carb...
UK set to backtrack on net zero policies
Sep 19, 2023 (AFP)
Sunak is due to make a major speech on Friday, but said Tuesday in a statement that while the government was committed to the target, it will try to achieve it ...
EU seeks 'fair and just' green transition
Sep 13, 2023 (AFP)
In her annual State of the Union speech to the European Parliament, she said she was "convinced that agriculture and protection of the natural world can go hand...
UN maps out decarbonisation of polluting construction sector
Sep 12, 2023 (AFP)
The industry is responsible for 37 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions and growing urbanisation is spurring the construction of new buildings made from c...
G20 fails to agree fossil fuel phase-out despite warnings
Sep 09, 2023 (AFP)
But, for the first time, they backed a target of tripling global renewable energy capacity, a goal championed by the chief of the COP28 climate talks that begin...
World falling dangerously short of climate goals: UN
Sep 08, 2023 (AFP)
The 2015 Paris treaty has successfully driven climate action, but "much more is needed now on all fronts," said the report, which will underpin a crucial climat...
Africa climate demands zero in on finance, debt and taxes
Sep 07, 2023 (AFP)
The final declaration at the first-ever pan-African climate summit laid out a vision pitching the continent as a key to decarbonisation but also calling for fun...
Controversial plan to develop Toronto green area under review
Sep 06, 2023 (AFP)
Ontario's auditor general found a handful of developers stood to make a windfall of Can$8 billion after protected lands were removed from Toronto's so-called Gr...
G20 shirking 'critical' climate issues: UN climate chief
Sep 06, 2023 (AFP)
The G20, which accounts for about 85 percent of the world's economy and greenhouse gas emissions, will meet in New Delhi in the absence of China and Russia's le...
African leaders seek united front to press green growth goals
Sep 06, 2023 (AFP)
Africa is acutely vulnerable to the growing impacts of climate change, yet Kenyan President William Ruto has fought for a narrative shift at the Nairobi confere...
Billions pledged for green development at Africa climate talks
Sep 05, 2023 (AFP)
Kenyan President William Ruto has sought to use the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi to shift the narrative on the region, presenting the clean energy transitio...
African leaders to push for finance at climate summit
Sep 05, 2023 (AFP)
Heads of state, and government and industry leaders, are among thousands of attendees at the summit where Africa is promoting its potential as a clean energy po...
Global tensions risk clean energy progress: IEA chief
Sep 04, 2023 (AFP)
Speaking at the African Climate Summit in Nairobi, Fatih Birol told AFP that these international rifts, partly stoked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, are "beco...
Can Africa grasp its green-powered potential
Sep 04, 2023 (AFP)
The first African Climate Summit, which begins on Monday in Nairobi, is designed to showcase Africa as a potential powerhouse for renewables. Despite steep chal...
Free electricity boon for Norway's two biggest cities
Sep 04, 2023 (AFP)
With power almost exclusively produced from hydro in Norway, the more it rains or snows, the more the reservoirs fill up and the lower the electricity price. A ...
Desert downpours dampen spirits of Burning Man festival in Nevada
Sep 02, 2023 (AFP)
"Do not travel to Black Rock City!" Burning Man organizers tweeted, referring to the desert area where the alternative festival takes place. "Access to the city...
Years of coal plant expansion torment Turkey's villagers
Aug 27, 2023 (AFP)
Having just returned from a pilgrimage to Mecca with his wife, the middle-aged man recalls the golden days when there was no thermal power plant in Soma. His ol...
British energy regulator Ofgem cuts energy bills to lowest since late 2021
Aug 25, 2023 (UPI)
From Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, the cap on energy bills will be set at $2,434, down from the $2,626 set for the July-September billing period. Ofgem said it estima...
Bringing sustainable and affordable electricity to all
Aug 24, 2023 (SPX)
While many consider electricity a basic human right, there are places where people have never flipped a light switch. Among the United Nations' Sustainable Deve...
European energy firms doing nothing to tackle climate change, says Greenpeace
Aug 22, 2023 (AFP)
Contrary to public perception, wind and solar power production by big oil companies is still surprisingly low, according to the environmentalist group. "Europea...
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