ENERGY DAILY

1,902 articles

Space to help build a green post-pandemic economy
Oct 28, 2020 (ESA)
ESA has several green initiatives to foster economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic while promoting clean living and digital transformation. They seek t...
Xi's big carbon promise on the table as China's leaders meet
Oct 26, 2020 (AFP)
The climate goals, which challenge the world's biggest polluter to reach peak emissions in 2030 and go carbon neutral 30 years later, are the most concrete envi...
Japan PM Suga sets 2050 deadline for carbon neutrality
Oct 26, 2020 (AFP)
Delivering his first policy address since taking office, Suga placed the environment front and centre as Japan plays catch-up with climate pledges made by other...
Greenpeace knocks ECB for carbon-heavy 'bias'
Oct 20, 2020 (AFP)
According to a study by the environmental pressure group and the UK-based think-tank New Economics Foundation, 63 percent of bonds held by the ECB at the end of...
A renewable solution to keep cool in a warming world
Oct 20, 2020 (SPX)
Conventional air-conditioning (AC) is the most common technology used for cooling and represents a considerable share of energy demand in warmer regions. An alt...
Unprecedented energy use since 1950 has transformed humanity's geologic footprint
Oct 19, 2020 (SPX)
Led by Jaia Syvitski, CU Boulder professor emerita and former director of the Institute of Alpine Arctic Research (INSTAAR), the paper, published in Nature Comm...
Real-time data show COVID-19's massive impact on global emissions
Oct 15, 2020 (SPX)
An international team of researchers has found that in the first six months of this year, 8.8 percent less carbon dioxide was emitted than in the same period in...
ECB's Lagarde urges more green finance
Oct 14, 2020 (AFP)
"There is not enough finance going in the green direction," Lagarde told an online meeting of the UN Environment Finance Initiative. The former French finance m...
Virus crisis an opportunity to reshape climate reponse: IEA
Oct 13, 2020 (AFP)
In its annual report looking into energy markets in the decades to come, the IEA presents several scenarios as governments try to balance the health of their ci...
Critics see gap in BlackRock's climate rhetoric and record
Oct 11, 2020 (AFP)
But environmentalists say the company has failed to make good on this promise in a series of shareholder proposals at annual meetings this year. Led by influent...
HSBC bank aims for zero carbon on investments by 2050
Oct 09, 2020 (AFP)
"HSBC has both the scale and global reach to play a leading role in guiding its customers through this transition and helping them to achieve this ambitious goa...
Renewable player overtakes ExxonMobil in market value
Oct 08, 2020 (AFP)
Florida-based NextEra, a big player in wind and solar energy, has overtaken the global oil giant as the most valuable US energy company by market value. NextEra...
EU parliament demands tougher climate targets
Oct 08, 2020 (AFP)
Lawmakers voted late Wednesday to press the bloc to slash emissions by at least 60 percent by 2030 -- a bigger cut than currently proposed by the European Commi...
Rising nitrous oxide emissions could put Paris Agreement goals out of reach
Oct 07, 2020 (UPI)
According to a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, the growing use of nitrogen fertilizers by industrial agriculture has led to a dramatic inc...
Deloitte scraps report on climate change benefit for GDP
Oct 02, 2020 (AFP)
Published online by Deloitte's Prague office last week, the analysis said that countries in colder latitudes such as Canada, Norway and Russia "should benefit t...
Canada spends on infrastructure to boost jobs, cut CO2 emissions
Oct 01, 2020 (AFP)
The government's nascent Canada Infrastructure Bank will oversee the spending, which totals Can$10 billion (US$7.5 billion) and is meant to fund electric buses,...
'Big Four' accounting firm sees upside to climate change
Sep 25, 2020 (AFP)
Published online in Czech, the analysis from Deloitte's Prague office said that countries in colder latitudes such as Canada, Norway and Russia "should benefit ...
Big promises, but can China be carbon neutral by 2060
Sep 23, 2020 (AFP)
China is responsible for over a quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming. But it is also the biggest global investor in renewabl...
Bolsonaro faces growing pressure to green Brazil economy
Sep 22, 2020 (AFP)
Bolsonaro, a far-right climate-change skeptic, has called environmental groups a "cancer" for attacking his policies, which include pushing for protected lands ...
Richest 1%'s emissions twice that of poorest 50%: analysis
Sep 21, 2020 (AFP)
Despite a sharp decrease in carbon emissions due to the pandemic, the world remains on pace to warm several degrees this century, threatening poor and developin...
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.