The dawn of the age of renewable energy could be even more complicated from a geopolitical perspective than the age of fossil fuels, shifting national and regional power to new players.
“We don’t for a second believe that the state of Louisiana is able to oversee the safe construction and operation of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline… There are accidents every single week in the oil industry in this state, and there is no sign of that ending.”
Louisiana groups say they are fed up with environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry and that the very least the state should allow a third-party assessment of what’s at stake before a proposed pipeline is allowed to be built. They also want Louisiana to move to renewable energy, which is far safer and less
The dramatic energy change in China has helped halt the rise of global CO2 emissions for the first time since the first climate change treaty was signed almost three decades ago.
Carbon emissions from China’s energy sector stalled last year for the third year running — as coal use fell again and solar deployment nearly doubled. The newly released government figures, analyzed by Greenpeace, also suggest that emissions are on track to fall this year by
2017 will be one to watch – and challenge – for nature.
(REPORT) — If has been a year of bad omens for the UK’s natural world. One in ten wildlife species are now at risk of extinction, the landmark State of Nature report announced in September. In sheer
Despite India’s recent ratification of the Paris climate agreement, the country is embarking on one of the most aggressive programs to build new coal plants that the planet has ever seen.
On October 2, the anniversary of Gandhi’s birthday, India formally ratified the Paris climate agreement. The move comes with caveats, largely to protect the country in case the US (or other big polluters) pull out and also to keep up the pressure on richer countries to provide finance to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate
Currently, almost two-thirds of Europe’s renewable energy comes from burning biomass, and the industry employs almost half a million workers.
BANGKOK, Thailand --- Thailand will soon be turning its coconut waste into electrical power thanks to a specialized power plant that burns biomass. Unlike other biomass plants, which can be designed to burn everything from wood chips to city waste, the plant being built in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon Province will be tailored specifically for
The Swedish government will invest 4.4 billion krone (£354 million) of its 2016 budget in a bid to become the world’s first fossil-fuel free nation by 2050.
Sweden will boost investment in clean technology and renewable energy, according to an announcement made at the end of September. The Scandinavian state intends to become the world’s first fossil-fuel free nation by 2050 through heavy investment in solar and wind energy, smart grids and clean transport. Last year two thirds of Sweden’s
