Some of the best news of 2015 about our ability to resist and adapt to climate change is the powerful increase in numbers of subregional and panregional governments, businesses, and cities taking action to speed the necessary transition to renewable energy. Part of the Lima-Paris Action Agenda, Energy Day at … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. Power for All is a global campaign dedicated to promoting the fastest, most cost-effective, and most sustainable approach to universal energy access. It was first introduced at the United Nation’s Sustainable Energy For All forum in New York on May 21, 2015, reports TreeHugger. ”We shouldn’t have to … [continued]
The Sustainable Energy for All initiative held its second annual Forum in the UN General Assembly Hall last week. SE4All is a multi-stakeholder partnership of governments, businesses, civil society, banks, and other international institutions aiming to meet three interlinked goals by 2030: Ensuring universal access to modern energy services; Doubling … [continued]
A new report describes how the UAE renewable energy sector could skyrocket, taking the country off the table as a major customer for US natural gas.
World Bank energy investments are categorically failing to end energy poverty. That’s the stark finding of a new report released by Sierra Club and Oil Change International which measures how multilateral development banks (MDB) fare on their efforts to end energy poverty. The report benchmarked recent MDB investments in clean energy access … [continued]
It is hard to overstate the effect that access to reliable electricity can have on people’s lives in rural communities worldwide. That’s why we are so supportive of interventions like off-grid clean energy that not only put power directly in people’s hands, but do it in a time frame that … [continued]
I’ve already posted about the biggest highlights of Abu Dhabi Ascent*, at least from what I saw there. Links to those stories are below. However, aside from those stories, here are videos of other highlights from the short event: Greg Barker on Climate Action and Progress Renewable Energy Is Absolutely … [continued]
Originally published on ABB Conversations. By Jochen Kreusel. A major topic at the recent World Energy Congress in South Korea was how consumers can help integrate more renewable energy into the power grid More than 7,000 people from around 120 countries attended the 22nd World Energy Congress in Daegu, South Korea, from … [continued]
As the cleanup drama continues to unspool around the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the Internets have been cheering the news that the World Bank will not be financing any more such facilities in the future. That’s nice, really, except that it’s not exactly news. The World Bank … [continued]
US society needs to make the right choices today in order to assure adequate, affordable supplies of both energy and water. Pursuing a strategic pathway centered on low-carbon renewable energy resources and energy efficiency gains can get us there, according to a comprehensive study undertaken by the “Energy and Water in a Warming World Initiative” (EW3).
