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Singapore could be 25% solar-powered by 2025

Solar could meet as much as a quarter of Singapore's energy demands by 2025, according to a white paper by the Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore (SEAS). This figure was noted by Deputy Prime...

25 Oct 2017

Singapore could be 25% solar-powered by 2025

News / Energy

New study questions impact of ending fossil fuel subsidies

...renewables. Erickson says the finding in some models that coal-rich nations would increase their emissions in the absence of subsidies is “not surprising” and “a function of their applying a single gl...

15 Feb 2018

New study questions impact of ending fossil fuel subsidies

News / Policy & Finance

Where Will JPMorgan Chase put its 200 billion green dollars?

...renewables, which includes long-term power purchasing agreements like a 20-year deal it signed last year with the 100-megawatt Buckthorn wind farm in Erath County, Texas. That commitment alone will me...

1 Aug 2017

Where Will JPMorgan Chase put its 200 billion green dollars?

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Rethinking energy; navigating change at the 10th edition of Singapore International Energy Week

...renewables, and energy investment opportunities in Asia. High-level attendees include: H.E. Dr Khammany Inthirath, Minister of Energy and Mines, Lao PDR H.E. Datuk Seri Panglima Dr Maximus Johnity ...

24 Oct 2017

Rethinking energy; navigating change at the 10th edition of Singapore International Energy Week

A student at a vocational school in Osh, Kyrgyzstan practices her sewing

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Sustaining progress towards the SDGs in transition countries

In the World Bank’s most recent “Doing Business” report, half of the Eastern European and Central Asian countries included in the global ranking were among the top 50. As a measure of economic maturit...

11 Apr 2018

Sustaining progress towards the SDGs in transition countries

News / Energy

Laos dam disaster hasn't dampened region's thirst for hydropower

The July collapse of a dam in the Xe- Pian-Xe Nam Noy hydroelectric plant in Laos that killed 35 people and displaced thousands has raised alarm over the Lao government’s relentless pursuit of hydropo...

21 Aug 2018

Laos dam disaster hasn't dampened region's thirst for hydropower

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why 2018 is the year for business to step up climate action

...renewables, and avoid investing in high-carbon infrastructure are not only being environmentally responsible, they are also future-proofing their growth by factoring in long-term risk and positioning ...

25 Jan 2018

Why 2018 is the year for business to step up climate action

News / Energy

Oceans could offer a wind-powered world

Two Californian scientists have worked out how to achieve a wind-powered world that provides the entire planet with wind energy without spoiling the view with turbines on every hilltop. The answer: ta...

30 Oct 2017

Oceans could offer a wind-powered world

News / Energy

Egg whites could power a clean energy future

Egg whites — they’re not just (a cholesterol-free) breakfast anymore. A Japanese researcher has found a way to use molecules from a protein-based chemical found in egg whites to generate hydrogen more...

8 Mar 2018

Egg whites could power a clean energy future

News / Carbon & Climate

RBF 2018 to spur action on SDGs

If the world wants to achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, partnerships have to be forged to mitigate climate change, stop human rights abuses, develop circular ec...

9 Oct 2018

RBF 2018 to spur action on SDGs

News / Carbon & Climate

New scenarios show how the world could limit warming to 1.5C in 2100

...renewables The study explores the different ways that global energy needs can be met, while also cutting GHG emissions in order to meet the 1.5C goal. Limiting warming to below 1.5C requires that the ...

13 Mar 2018

New scenarios show how the world could limit warming to 1.5C in 2100

News / Waste

Natural waste holds promise of safe plastic

The good news is that safe plastic is not an impossible dream: novel ways to tackle the tide of discarded material engulfing the planet are under development. One scheme absorbing US chemists will tur...

3 Aug 2018

Natural waste holds promise of safe plastic

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

ASEAN countries must act together to confront climate change

...renewables in the energy mix could counteract fossil fuel dependence and achieve the NDCs. Energy transition provides an opportunity for increased cooperation within ASEAN. Since 1997, greater electri...

17 Nov 2017

ASEAN countries must act together to confront climate change

News / Energy

Forget Tesla's big battery: it's the smaller ones you want

Last year, the world gasped as Tesla’s Elon Musk won a bet to build the world’s biggest battery system in South Australia, within 100 days. Elsewhere, though, facilities managers are finding smaller b...

6 Mar 2018

Forget Tesla's big battery: it's the smaller ones you want

Trees made bare by acid rain in Smokey Mountain National Park, USA

News / Policy & Finance

Is there a market-based solution to Southeast Asia’s haze problem?

Acid rain was a major environmental problem in the 1970s and 1980s. The phenomenon was caused by the reaction of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide from power factories with moisture in the atmosphere...

7 Nov 2018

Is there a market-based solution to Southeast Asia’s haze problem?

Videos / Energy

How lakes can generate electricity

When the conversation turns to sources of clean renewable energy, evaporation usually isn’t the first thing to come up, if at all. Yet scientists think evaporation from US lakes and reservoirs could g...

5 Oct 2017

How lakes can generate electricity

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The world is counting on banks to deliver climate finance. Counting their progress is no easy feat.

Banks are connected to every part of the economy through their investing and lending activities. That means they play a crucial role in financing the transition to a low-carbon economy. The financial ...

31 May 2018

The world is counting on banks to deliver climate finance. Counting their progress is no easy feat.

The Puerto Rico Army National Guard clearing the roads after Hurricane Maria

Opinion / Energy

Why solar 'microgrids' are not a cure-all for Puerto Rico's power woes

...renewables contracts and purchase more renewable energy. In April 2017 PREPA issued a new financial plan with starkly grim prospects: a $4 billion maintenance backlog, the loss of fully one-quarter of...

9 Nov 2017

Why solar 'microgrids' are not a cure-all for Puerto Rico's power woes

News / Energy

Cities can go completely renewable — and here’s how

...renewables. Malmö: The Swedish city aims to achieve 100 per cent government-wide use of clean fuel by 2020 and community-wide reliance on such sources a decade later. The goals are “significantly more...

3 Jul 2017

Cities can go completely renewable — and here’s how

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The green lobby’s misdirected anger

...renewables to generate 75% of the world’s electricity needs. These measures will eliminate CO2 emissions, according to the IPCC, but may not be enough. A 1.5°C increase in global temperatures is now a...

30 Oct 2018

The green lobby’s misdirected anger

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