The UK Government’s own Committee on Climate Change has highlighted the importance of low-carbon electricity generation as part of Britain’s future energy needs. In a new report published last week, and intended to impact the UK’s Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) advice to the Government on its upcoming fifth carbon … [continued]
Today’s publication of the GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance by the World Resources Institute will go a long way toward helping the business sector apply and advance its use of renewable energy. Investments in that sector, largely driven by offshore wind in Europe, and solar in China and the US, quintupled over … [continued]
With the release this morning in Copenhagen, Denmark, of the final world Synthesis Report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel, it has become evident that all peoples of Earth need to take action (Sunday, November 2, 2014). Why is this important to Americans? IPCC interfaces on a global scale between science and … [continued]
This article was originally published on Shrink That Footprint by Lindsay Wilson Low carbon electricity is a wonderful thing, and will be a central part of tackling climate change. In 2010 electricity generation was responsible for about 13 Gt of greenhouse gas emissions, or a little bit more than a quarter of … [continued]
This article was first published on Lenz Blog. Mark Lynas just released an “Amazon short” title called Nuclear 2.0. The book description at Amazon has this to say: Lynas shows that with wind and solar still at only about 1 percent of global primary energy, asking renewables to deliver all the … [continued]
