Editor’s Note: This article is one submission in a live Masdar blogging contest (find out the entry requirements here). Very simply, the focus of the contest submissions is to: “Describe your city in 2030: what will occur due to changes in energy, transportation and water technologies, and how will they transform how you live?” We are sharing this submission here … [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]
In Friday’s wee hours, the 28-nation European Union committed itself to fight climate change by rolling back dangerous carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 to at least 40% less than their benchmark 1990 levels. The EU has already almost met its existing goal of a 20% cut by 2020. The unanimous move … [continued]
After the bubbling furor of yesterday’s 310,000 People’s Climate March, some may expect tomorrow’s UN summit to result in ringing declarations, money pouring in to fight climate change, and a unanimous world climate treaty on how to vanquish the threat. Or, perhaps more realistically, to make sure humans are still … [continued]
Leading world professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers released its sixth annual Low Carbon Economy Index report (Two Degrees Of Separation: Ambition and Reality), an analysis of economic growth rates and greenhouse gas emissions data for G20 economies), this morning. PwC’s sustainability and climate change team says that not only are the … [continued]
The Northeast U.S. cap-and-trade system helped install 800MW new renewables capacity in 2013, showing states how EPA’s proposed emissions rule can succeed.
A new study from NREL turns wind energy perceptions upside down by saying it can be used by grid operators to improve power system reliability.
The New York Green Bank has received $210 million in initial capitalization designed to boost clean energy projects and overcome market financing barriers.
Markets reduce greenhouse gas emissions nearly 17 times cheaper than paying power generators renewable energy subsidies, according to new analysis of 15 nations by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
