Originally published on The Climate Reality Project. Countries all over the world are embracing renewables as a source of affordable clean energy – even countries you might not expect. Countries all over the world are embracing renewables as a source of affordable clean energy – even countries many associate directly … [continued]
How we envision the future of our energy systems is important as this tends to drive our policies and decisions. In a new scientific paper, “Competing principles driving energy futures: Fossil fuel decarbonisation vs. manufacturing learning curves”, published this month in the journal Futures, I contrast two broad energy visions.
2016 is very likely to be the hottest year on record when it’s over, according to a new assessment from the World Meteorological Organization. As it stands, preliminary data are showing that global temperatures in 2016 are roughly 1.2° Celsius above pre-industrial levels — not far below the supposed “safe” limit of 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
As a result of falling investment funding, Norway should be providing fiscal incentives to companies to continue producing at declining oil fields in the North Sea, according to ExxonMobil Production Vice President John Chaplin.
The best explanation I read of Trump’s rise wasn’t published this week. It wasn’t published last week. And it wasn’t even published in the last 6 months.
Super-successful businessman Donald Trump has been hating on the US wind energy industry iall year, super-big energy company Xcel blows him off.
Both United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and US Secretary of State John Kerry (quoting President Obama), affirmed the viability of the Paris Agreement on climate change this morning. Sensing the urgency of acting on upcoming world disaster, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had convened a special “High-Level Event” today at the UN … [continued]
Originally published on Green Building Elements. The greatly underestimated public bus shelter is the latest subject of a creative solar power makeover. When winners of a new competition were announced on June 30, 2016, an innovative new set of designs entered the high-tech highway to solar-powered shelters. With solar-powered glow-in-the-dark … [continued]
In today’s clean energy and transport news roundup, we’ve got solar news from Brazil, Spain, Iran, Egypt, Chernobyl, and India, more on Tesla’s Autopilot, a so-called self-driving Mercedes, a 205 mph electric Corvette, Ford Fusion Energi sales, info on Formula E’s third season, and more. [CleanTechnica isn’t the only Important … [continued]
The International Energy Agency has painted a grim picture of the global oil market, with oil prices dropping, investment dropping, and supply increasing, all of which are hurting energy efficiency trends. The International Energy Agency (IEA) published an updated analysis of the current oil price environment this week, detailing how … [continued]
