NEW YORK: U.S. presidential hopeful Cory Booker unveiled a $3 trillion plan to address climate change on Tuesday, vowing to reach a 100% clean energy economy by 2045 by sharply curbing fossil fuels while investing heavily in renewable energy sources. The plan also calls for a new White House-coordinated “Environmental Justice Fund” that would focus […]
Climate change: India pitches for financial support
In the run-up to two key UN summits on Climate Change, India has raised the pitch for finance and technology support to developing nations to achieve the Paris Agreement goals of keeping a global average temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius. Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar said […]
Ireland Will Plant 440 Million Trees By 2040 To Combat Climate Change
The initiative is part of Ireland’s climate action plan, which proposed investments in renewable energy, a new carbon tax and a mass tree-planting effort. Irish officials said this weekend that the country will plant around 22 million new trees across the country each year until 2040, hoping to one day have at least 440 million […]
Modi has recommitted to leading climate change fight: UN official
United Nations: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recommitted to continue to lead the fight against climate change at his meeting with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, according to an official organising September’s UN summit on climate change. Modi made the pledge when he met Guterres in Biarritz, France, on Sunday on the sidelines of the G7 meeting, […]
The Energy Transition in 4 Charts
A peek at Wood Mackenzie’s latest outlooks for solar, wind energy storage and carbon emissions. There is little debate that the energy transition is underway. However, the speed at which it is happening is very much in flux. Wood Mackenzie recently compiled some of its latest power and renewables forecasts into a presentation (available here) […]
Australia, under fire for coal, pledges $339 million for Pacific climate change
NADI, Fiji : Australia will donate A$500 million ($339 million) to Pacific Islands for renewable energy projects and to help its neighbours prepare for the impact of climate change, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday. The low-lying islands of the Pacific are seen as the front line of global climate change, battling rising sea […]
Antonio Guterres calls on nations to come up with concrete plans to fight climate change
Expressing concern over changes in the weather patterns leading to severe heat waves across the world, UN Chief Antonio Guterras has called on global leaders to come up with concrete plans and strategies for carbon neutrality by 2050 and not “beautiful speeches.” Expressing concern over changes in the weather patterns leading to severe heat waves […]
Global Energy Transition at Risk From US-China Trade War
Cooperation on the world stage is critical for minimizing climate change, but it’s in short supply right now, says Wood Mackenzie’s 2019 Energy Transition Outlook. Rising economic nationalism in the U.S. and China is dominating news headlines and making waves across the global economy. Less appreciated is the threat it poses to the energy transition. […]
EIB set to finance biggest wind power infrastructure projects in Spain
These new facilities will have a total capacity of 547 MW and will generate approximately 1.491 GWh of energy a year overall, a volume equivalent to the power use of 360 000 Spanish homes. · The EU bank will provide up to EUR 385m to Alfanar, successful bidder in Spain’s third renewable energy auction. · […]
New York Governor Signs Ambitious Climate Change Bill with Goal of Slashing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030
He was joined by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who has made ghting global warming his life’s work New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an ambitious climate change bill Thursday with the goal of slashing the state’s greenhouse gas emissions 85% below what they were in 1990. “Cries for a new green movement are […]
