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Coronavirus outbreak slashes China carbon emissions: study
Feb 19, 2020 (AFP)
China's carbon emissions have dropped by least 100 million metric tonnes over the past two weeks, according to a study published on Wednesday by the Centre for ...
Extreme weather to overload urban power grids, study shows
Feb 17, 2020 (AFP)
In a series of studies and comment pieces in a special edition of the journal Nature Energy, researchers examined how cities can better use renewable power sour...
EU chief pleads to save green deal in budget holed by Brexit
Feb 12, 2020 (AFP)
"If we do not set aside the funds... we will simply fail to achieve a climate neutral Europe" by 2050 as planned, she told the European Parliament. Her warning ...
Model shows how to make on-farm sustainable energy projects profitable
Feb 11, 2020 (SPX)
"Converting animal waste into electricity can be profitable for farmers while also producing environmental benefits, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions,"...
Carbon emissions from energy 'flat' in 2019: IEA
Feb 11, 2020 (AFP)
Electricity generation produced around 33 billion tonnes of CO2 last year, defying forecasts that emissions from power would continue their upward trend. The IE...
As nations bicker, a greener future evolves in finance
Feb 09, 2020 (AFP)
Its backers hope it could profitably help save the planet. Regardless of the politics of climate change, there is real money to be made today in the exploding m...
New research could aid cleaner energy technologies
Feb 03, 2020 (SPX)
The atomic reaction between gases and oxides is a key piece for many technological puzzles. It can lead to benefits such as better catalysts to enable cleaner e...
Climate crisis spawns high tide of greenwashing
Jan 23, 2020 (AFP)
At Davos' annual conclave of the rich and powerful, "it is all that anyone is talking about," Alain Roumilhac, CEO of ManPowerGroup France, told AFP Wednesday. ...
ECB's Lagarde warns of 'danger of doing nothing' on climate
Jan 23, 2020 (AFP)
Unlike her predecessor Mario Draghi, Lagarde has placed a strong emphasis on climate protection since taking the helm of the European Central Bank in November. ...
France, Germany join BlackRock for climate investment
Jan 22, 2020 (AFP)
The Climate Finance Partnership (CFP) brings together BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, France's development agency AFP, the German environment mini...
Thunberg, Trump to offer competing visions at climate-focused Davos
Jan 21, 2020 (AFP)
The four-day gathering of the world's top political and business leaders in the Swiss Alps gets under way seeking to meet head-on the dangers to both the enviro...
Global resource consumption tops 100 bn tonnes for first time
Jan 21, 2020 (AFP)
The share of minerals, fossil fuels, metals and biomass feeding into the global economy that is reused declined in two years from an already paltry 9.1 percent ...
Davos faces up to towering global challenges
Jan 17, 2020 (AFP)
Observers fear the annual World Economic Forum will serve only to again expose the differences between East and West, the US and the EU, and business and activi...
BlackRock to clean up investment portfolio, CEO says
Jan 15, 2020 (AFP)
"We believe that sustainable investing is the strongest foundation for client portfolios going forward," Fink said in a letter to clients last week. In line wit...
EU lays out trillion-euro 'Green Deal'
Jan 14, 2020 (AFP)
That figure, a 10-year investment to be sourced from leveraged public and private funds, is part of a European "Green Deal" -- an ambitious rethinking of the ec...
BlackRock to clean up investment portfolio, CEO says
Jan 14, 2020 (AFP)
"We believe that sustainable investing is the strongest foundation for client portfolios going forward," Fink said in a letter to clients last week. In line wit...
EU to lay out trillion-euro 'Green Deal'
Jan 14, 2020 (AFP)
That figure represents a 10-year investment to be sourced from public funds and leveraged private sector money. It is part of Europe's "Green Deal" -- an ambiti...
Study reveals global sustainability efforts play out on local level
Jan 02, 2020 (UPI)
To slow global warming, curb environmental degradation and prevent the worst consequences of climate change, all while addressing the problems of poverty and in...
BoE chief calls for faster action on climate change
Dec 30, 2019 (AFP)
In an interview with BBC radio's Today programme guest-edited by Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, Carney said the world of business needed to st...
Germany signs off on flagship climate plan
Dec 20, 2019 (AFP)
The so-called climate package, which includes plans to make train travel cheaper and increase taxes on air travel, will take effect on January 1 after months of...
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