Climate

Energy Associations Issue Declaration to Achieve EU Green Deal

Energy associations championing the move towards renewable sources, including SolarPower Europe and WindEurope, have issued a declaration setting policy recomme…

Warren’s $3 Trillion Climate Change Plan

White House candidate, Senator Elizabeth Warren has put forward what is said to be "one of the most aggressive, detailed and wide-ranging plans for combating cl…

BP Wants To Slash Carbon Emissions, But Has No Plan For Doing That

There is an old expression that says, “If you fail to plan, you have a plan to fail.” It’s good to have goals, but plans are what make achieving those goals …

Carbon Neutral

Can BP Become Carbon Neutral?

BP’s new chief executive Bernard Looney outlined an ambitious new objective on Wednesday to make the oil giant carbon-neutral by 2050 - the most exacting susta…

German Energy Leaders Seek Federal Support for Low Carbon Transition

A leading German energy association and regional energy minister both called for increased German federal support in meeting the country’s decarbonisation goal…

World's Carbon Emissions Flatline as Rich Nations Ditch Coal for Wind and Solar

Wind and solar expansion helped bring an unexpected stall to the growth of global energy-related CO2 emissions last year, said the International Energy Agency (…

Market Analysis

Planned Hydropower Dams Threaten Fish in the Tropics

Planned hydropower dams will greatly increase threats for freshwater fish species because of habitat fragmentation, especially in the tropics.

The Latest in Climate Change Attribution and the Law

The evolving field of climate change attribution science plays a critical role in shaping our understanding of how humans are affecting the global climate syste…

Carbon Neutral

Nordics Bet on Advanced Biofuels to Suit Carbon Neutrality Ambitions

Scandinavian governments have raised the bar in their commitment to becoming carbon neutral and several companies have responded by developing new technologies …

Solar Power Plant

150MW Hungarian Solar Power Plant Project Obtains $125M Investment Proposal from Capital Corp Merchant Banking

With the EU raising the price of lignite in an effort to reduce greenhouse gases and fight against climate change, the Hungarian government has decided to turn …

Coal Mine

Reliance on Coal Divides European States

Two European states with a traditional reliance on coal are taking radically different paths as the climate crisis worsens.

Dwindling Arctic Sea Ice May Affect Tropical Weather Patterns

A new study finds a possible link between Arctic warming and more frequent El Niños in the Central Pacific.

Power Plant Emissions Down 47% Under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

This first-in-the-nation regional effort to lower carbon emissions from power plants is actually a cap-and-invest program. Power plants buy emission allowances …

Market Analysis

British Government Sued for Approving Europe’s Largest Gas-Fired Power Plant

Client Earth has the green light from a British court to sue the UK government for undermining its own planning authority's concerns about the climate crisis wh…

Japan Minister Seeks Review of Coal-fired Plant in Vietnam

In the face of international pressure regarding the building of coal-fired power plants, Japan's environment minister on Friday called on the government to reco…