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News / Carbon & Climate

8 things you need to know about the IPCC 1.5˚C report

...renewables are projected to supply 70-85 per cent of electricity in 1.5˚C pathways. Energy efficiency and fuel-switching measures will be critical for the transportation sector. Reducing energy deman...

9 Oct 2018

8 things you need to know about the IPCC 1.5˚C report

News / Carbon & Climate

Carbon law could make Paris promise a reality

...renewables in the energy sector has doubled every 5.5 years. If doubling continues at this pace fossil fuels will exit the energy sector well before 2050,” said Johan Rockström, director of the Stockh...

3 Apr 2017

Carbon law could make Paris promise a reality

News / Energy

Skin powered by the sun? Energy-saving prosthetic limbs get better feeling

Amputees with prosthetic limbs may soon have much a better sense of touch, temperature and texture, thanks to the energy-saving power of the sun, British researchers said on Thursday. While prosthetic...

27 Mar 2017

Skin powered by the sun? Energy-saving prosthetic limbs get better feeling

activists block loading of coal in West Java

News / Energy

Facing oversupply, Indonesia scales back its coal-based electricity plan

...renewables.” “If energy is cheaper from renewables, the government will buy it, if it is cheaper from coal and gas, they will buy from that,” said Sawung. This story was published with permission from...

17 May 2017

Facing oversupply, Indonesia scales back its coal-based electricity plan

News / Energy

Look to the sky for SE Asia's energy future, says Thai solar pioneer

When Wandee Khunchornyakong Juljarern was looking for loans to build a solar farm in 2009, bank after bank rejected her. They cited her lack of experience in running commercial solar projects, even th...

11 Jul 2017

Look to the sky for SE Asia's energy future, says Thai solar pioneer

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate-threatened Bangladesh to impose carbon tax in June

Bangladesh is set to impose its own carbon tax on fuel next month – despite the hugely climate-vulnerable country producing relatively tiny per capita emissions. The tax is expected to be put in place...

25 May 2017

Climate-threatened Bangladesh to impose carbon tax in June

Cyclists on a busy bicycle lane in Vancouver, Canada

News / Cities

Building the world’s greenest city

In her earlier life, Andrea Reimer rummaged through dumpsters, trying to find useful items in other people’s rubbish. Today, she’s fighting for the city of Vancouver to, among other lofty ambitions, p...

19 Sep 2017

Building the world’s greenest city

Press Releases / Greenpeace Southeast Asia

A global movement demands a world free from fossil fuels

Break Free from fossil fuels protests in Croatia and Israel have kickstarted the latest wave of protests by a global movement determined to accelerate the shift to an era of renewable energy, with fur...

15 Mar 2017

A global movement demands a world free from fossil fuels

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia’s sustainable districts bet on corporate deforestation pledges

Beni Hernedi loves mountain-climbing, and he bristles when people dismiss his passion. “They think it’s about thrill-seeking and cheating death,” he says. “But for me it’s the opposite; it’s about bei...

12 Nov 2018

Indonesia’s sustainable districts bet on corporate deforestation pledges

News / Energy

South Africa aims for 'zero carbon' buildings in green push

Bulelwa Makalima-Ngewana knows how much cash going green can save. Four years ago, after signing up for "My Green Home"—an effort by the Green Building Council of South Africa to make buildings more e...

30 May 2018

South Africa aims for 'zero carbon' buildings in green push

News / Energy

Villages die as community makes way for coal in Germany

...renewables like wind and solar power," said campaigner Anike Peters of Greenpeace. Along with local residents, Greenpeace and other groups have protested against the forced resettlement and say they p...

14 Aug 2018

Villages die as community makes way for coal in Germany

Wind turbine in Ten Mile Lagoon Wind Farm Esperance Western Australia

Opinion / Energy

Reliable renewable electricity is possible if we make smart decisions now

...renewables decreasing, the transition to renewables may have benefits for power producers and power consumers. Future constraints and opportunities for renewable energy are uncertain, but we can’t wai...

1 Dec 2016

Reliable renewable electricity is possible if we make smart decisions now

Opinion / Energy

The 5 disruptions transforming the global utility sector

...renewables, applied information technologies etc.) that help cover the power output that the traditional grid needs to generate. DERs are another side effect of demand for more responsive utility tech...

22 Mar 2017

The 5 disruptions transforming the global utility sector

Research / REN21

Renewables 2016 Global Status Report

...renewables are now firmly established as competitive, mainstream sources of energy in many countries around the world. This year’s edition has detailed data and information on distributed renew...

15 Nov 2016

Renewables 2016 Global Status Report

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Making the business case for gender equality

Around the world, gender bias is attracting renewed attention. Through protest marches and viral social-media campaigns, women everywhere are demanding an end to sexual harassment, abuse, femicide, an...

1 Mar 2018

Making the business case for gender equality

solar enables first tv in Indian rural community

News / Energy

India's first solar satellite television service brings 'magic' to villages

An Indian social business has launched the country's first solar satellite television service, bringing clean energy powered entertainment to households and businesses through a pay-as-you-go payment ...

15 Jun 2017

India's first solar satellite television service brings 'magic' to villages

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Climate change: the case for hope

...renewables, more than the US and EU combined, and installed half of new wind power capacity globally and one third of new solar capacity.” Huge new opportunity For developing countries the renewable s...

25 Apr 2017

Climate change: the case for hope

News / Energy

Pollution-linked deaths in Asia to surge if coal power plans go ahead

...renewables is fairly high, clean energy tends to be regarded as a minor solution that can be used in remote villages and a “nice addition” to the power mix. “For example, in Indonesia there is a targe...

18 Jan 2017

Pollution-linked deaths in Asia to surge if coal power plans go ahead

News / Corporate Responsibility

Big business ‘threatens planet’s future’

Transnational corporations, or TNCs, or just plain big business, are everywhere. They have an overwhelming influence and impact on our lives—and on the planet. They boast they are a force for good—and...

12 Feb 2018

Big business ‘threatens planet’s future’

Opinion / Energy

China and India take different roads to green Asia’s infrastructure

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. India and China, Asia’s two economic heavyweights, have taken starkly different approaches to how t...

19 Sep 2017

China and India take different roads to green Asia’s infrastructure

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