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S.Africa to increase coal-fired energy, sparking climate outcry
Oct 18, 2019 (AFP)
Africa's biggest polluter and most industrialised nation was facing rolling blackouts -- in part due to ageing coal plants -- as the government released its ene...
To save climate, tax carbon at $75 per ton: IMF
Oct 10, 2019 (AFP)
The global crisis lender's call for immediate action confronts a policy dilemma that has left major economies rife with discord in recent years as they battle t...
How to Harmonise Wildlife and Energy Manufacturing
Oct 09, 2019 (SPX)
The challenges of wildlife and network protection Over the course of the last few years, the province of Carinthia in the Austrian Alps has witnessed an increas...
Canada, if Trudeau wins, to hit net zero emissions by 2050: minister
Sep 24, 2019 (AFP)
The campaign announcement by his environment minister, Catherine McKenna, follows an emotional speech by Swedish teen Greta Thunberg at the UN climate summit on...
Sixty-six countries vow carbon neutrality by 2050: UN
Sep 23, 2019 (AFP)
"In terms of the 2050 group, 66 governments are joined by 10 regions, 102 cities, 93 businesses and 12 investors -- all committed to net zero CO2emissions by 20...
Germany planning climate action worth over 100 bn euros
Sep 19, 2019 (AFP)
Merkel's conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats were expected to haggle late into the night on the details before the landmark policy package was du...
Italy's Enel to reduce C02 emissions 70% by 2030
Sep 18, 2019 (AFP)
In an announcement just a few days ahead of the UN Climate Summit, Enel said it wanted to help achieve the UN's goal of limiting the maximum global temperature ...
Vast Iraq power plant to be rebuilt; Plugs into Gulf power grid
Sep 14, 2019 (AFP)
The new deal is part of a broader energy road map that Iraq signed with Siemens earlier this year in a bid to pump 11 gigawatts into Iraq's crippled power secto...
Macro-energy systems and the science of the energy transition
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
These are the types of big-picture questions that are being answered by the research that fits into a new academic discipline--"macro-energy systems"--proposed ...
Northern Irish pensioner thrives in off grid cottage
Aug 16, 2019 (AFP)
For all of her 77 years Gallagher has lived in a 200-year-old thatched cottage in Northern Ireland without running water, electricity or an indoor toilet. It is...
Oslo wants to reduce its emissions by 95 percent by 2030
Aug 09, 2019 (AFP)
"This is the most ambitious climate strategy of any major city in the world," Oslo mayor Raymond Johansen said in a statement. "Together with Oslo's inhabitants...
Big energy discussion 'scrubbed from record' at UN climate talks
Jun 27, 2019 (AFP)
Talks between nations over how to implement the Paris climate goals wrap up in Bonn Thursday, when summaries of discussions and decisions will be presented to d...
Global warming = more energy use = more warming
Jun 24, 2019 (AFP)
To the extent this energy comes from fossil fuels, the extra power needed to cool industries, homes and retail outlets in the coming decades will itself contrib...
EU leaders fail to set 2050 target of zero net carbon emissions
Jun 20, 2019 (AFP)
Nonetheless, they added, a large majority of the 28 leaders endorsed the mid-century target under growing public and political pressure to step up the fight aga...
New York to get one of world's most ambitious carbon reduction plans
Jun 19, 2019 (AFP)
But the move came as President Donald Trump's administration finalized a rollback of an Obama-era plan to cut harmful emissions from coal plants, triggering an ...
Wartsila and Summit sign Bangladesh's biggest ever service agreement to maintain Summit's 464 MW power plants
Jun 18, 2019 (SPX)
The seven-year agreements represent the biggest ever signed service deals, in terms of MW generation, in the Bangladesh energy sector. The orders were booked by...
Canada must double its carbon tax to reach emissions target
Jun 13, 2019 (AFP)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government rolled out a starting tax of Can$20 ($15 US) in April on four provinces that haven't fallen in line with his emission...
New York takes aim at skyscrapers' sky-high energy usage
Jun 03, 2019 (AFP)
Traditional skyscrapers are an energy-saver's nightmare, with their vast glass facades, electric lighting everywhere, overly generous use of air conditioning an...
Florida air conditioning pioneer first dismissed as a crank
May 31, 2019 (AFP)
John Gorrie, a medical doctor who moved to steamy north Florida in 1833 determined to alleviate yellow fever outbreaks, was once described by a New York Globe w...
Speed bumps on German road to lower emissions
May 27, 2019 (AFP)
With Berlin set to miss the next decade's goals too unless lawmakers take bold action, here are some reasons why carbon reduction has proved tricky even for a w...
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