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Zimbabwe company inks $1.1bn thermal power deal with China
Jul 23, 2015 (AFP)
A Zimbabwean company on Thursday signed a $1.1 billion agreement with the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) to build a 600-megawatt therm...
Spanish energy company Iberdrola surviving downturn
Jul 22, 2015 (UPI)
Spanish energy group Iberdrola said Wednesday its profits for the first six months of 2015 were up more than 7 percent from the same time last year. "Iberdrola ...
Economic slump, not natural gas boom, responsible for drop in CO2
Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)
The 11 percent decrease in climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between 2007 and 2013 was caused by the global financial recession - not ...
Tradable Energy Quotas offer fair and effective route to low carbon society
Jul 20, 2015 (SPX)
To achieve public support for a transformation to a low carbon society, politicians would be advised to implement a quantity-based energy quota system, with a f...
Scientists issue carbon price call to curb climate change
Jul 10, 2015 (AFP)
Academics and economists called Friday for a price on carbon and an end to fossil fuel subsidies to help curb rampant greenhouse gas emissions harming Earth's c...
Climate: EU parliament backs reform of carbon market
Jul 08, 2015 (AFP)
The European Parliament on Wednesday approved plans to overhaul the Europe Union's carbon market, a key part of strategies to curb the EU's global-warming emiss...
Fossil fuels, low-carbon plans, in tug-of-war
Jul 06, 2015 (UPI)
Conventional energy output from OECD members is growing at a time when, for China to reach its carbon ambitions, its economy will need to slow, reports find. A ...
New formula expected to spur advances in clean energy generation
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Houston have devised a new formula for calculating the maximum efficiency of thermoelectric materials, the first new formula ...
Dutch court orders state to slash greenhouse emissions
Jun 24, 2015 (AFP)
A Dutch court on Wednesday ordered the state to slash greenhouse gas emissions nationwide by at least 25 percent by 2020, in a case that could serve as a bluepr...
Renewables record year uncouples growth of global economy from CO2
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
Renewable energy targets and other support policies now in place in 164 countries powered the growth of solar, wind and other green technologies to record-break...
US economist pens energy plan for Spain protest party
Jun 22, 2015 (AFP)
Spanish protest party Podemos teamed up Monday with a top US anti-austerity economist to launch a green energy plan which they said could create hundreds of tho...
US climate skeptics say Pope wrong, poor need cheap fuel
Jun 18, 2015 (AFP)
US climate change skeptics and deniers said Thursday that Pope Francis was wrong to urge action against global warming because continuing to burn cheap fossil f...
ADB: Asia needs more green investments
Jun 17, 2015 (UPI)
The Asian Development Bank said Wednesday renewable energy is a "low hanging fruit" that has yet to be harvested fully by Asian economies. "Renewables are becom...
Finland to start selling electricity to Russia
Jun 16, 2015 (XNA)
Finland is going to export electricity to neighboring Russia in the coming weekend, the first time in the Nordic country's history, Finnish media reported on Sa...
Engineers develop plan to convert US to 100 percent renewable energy
Jun 16, 2015 (SPX)
One potential way to combat ongoing climate change, eliminate air pollution mortality, create jobs and stabilize energy prices involves converting the world's e...
Ethiopia to cut carbon emissions by two-thirds by 2030
Jun 11, 2015 (AFP)
Ethiopia has set targets to slash carbon emissions by two-thirds within the next 15 years, the most ambitious goal so far presented to an upcoming UN climate ch...
UNIDO: China needs greener agenda
Jun 10, 2015 (UPI)
Beijing needs to adopt a sustainable economic model that includes resource efficiency as one of its pillars, the U.N. Industrial Development Organization said. ...
Scotland sees room for green growth
Jun 10, 2015 (UPI)
Scotland is on pace to meet its emissions reduction targets, but there's no silver bullet and there's room for improvement, the climate change minister said. "T...
Roadside air can be more charged than under a high-voltage power line
Jun 05, 2015 (SPX)
Despite community concerns about living under high-voltage power lines, a world-first QUT study reveals that there are far more charged particles beside busy ro...
Japan PM to pledge 26% greenhouse gas cut
Jun 02, 2015 (AFP)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday he would pledge a 26 percent cut in the country's greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of a global summit on climate ...
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