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One Central Park Sydney, a very green building

Opinion / Green Buildings

A global greening: Green building certification programmes make gains

In August, WRI received the US Green Building Council’s LEED Silver certification for the 2016 renovation of its global office in Washington DC. The certification adds to WRI’s expanding portfolio of ...

15 Aug 2017

A global greening: Green building certification programmes make gains

Fossil fuel divestment march on Valentine's Day 2015

Opinion / Energy

Zero is the essential number for climate action

The most important number in the world of climate action is ZERO: that is how many new fossil fuel projects world leaders can approve and still keep the promises they made under the Paris Climate Agre...

4 Nov 2016

Zero is the essential number for climate action

News / Energy

Seven charts show new renewables outpacing rising demand for first time

...Renewables accounted for 17 per cent of the total, around $300bn. The vast majority of this was in the electricity sector, where nearly 70 per cent of investment in power stations went towards renewab...

14 Sep 2016

Seven charts show new renewables outpacing rising demand for first time

Press Releases / Akzo Nobel

AkzoNobel signs cooperation agreement on bio-based polymer technology

AkzoNobel has signed a framework joint development agreement with specialty chemicals company Itaconix to explore opportunities for the production of bio-based polymers. With this agreement, AkzoNobe...

3 Feb 2017

AkzoNobel signs cooperation agreement on bio-based polymer technology

Press Releases / ENGIE

New “Hydrogen Council” launches in Davos

Thirteen leading energy, transport and industry companies have just launched a global initiative to voice a united vision and long-term ambition for hydrogen to foster the energy transition. In the f...

19 Jan 2017

New “Hydrogen Council” launches in Davos

Opinion / Policy & Finance

What can blockchain do for the environment?

...renewables Blockchain holds promise for solving some of renewable energy’s challenges as well. In particular, it opens the door for peer-to-peer trading of “home-grown” electricity such as power gener...

31 Jan 2017

What can blockchain do for the environment?

Press Releases / Asia Green Capital Partners

Asia Wind Energy Association launched

A new association has been organised to lead the onshore and offshore wind industry in Asia-Pacific. The Asia Wind Energy Association (AsiaWEA) was incorporated on 29 November 2016 and was launched e...

28 Dec 2016

Asia Wind Energy Association launched

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Why smart investors are targeting the companies solving the world’s sustainability problems

...renewables going forward. All of this investment activity may seem counterintuitive. After all, the incoming Trump administration has vowed to reverse environmental regulations, and his Cabinet is bei...

17 Jan 2017

Why smart investors are targeting the companies solving the world’s sustainability problems

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Australia to ratify the Paris climate deal, under a large Trump-shaped shadow

...renewables target, and the inadequacy of the current Direct Action policy. Kyoto’s rules hid a multitude of sins, anyway, as Oxford University’s Nicholas Howarth and Andrew Foxall have pointed out: "...

10 Nov 2016

Australia to ratify the Paris climate deal, under a large Trump-shaped shadow

Former United Nations Environment Programme executive director Achim Steiner is now running Oxford Martin School.

News / Policy & Finance

Sustainability is the forgotten half of globalisation, says Achim Steiner

Achim Steiner, one of the longest serving executive directors in the 45-year history of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), fears some rough waters may lie ahead for the planet in view of...

2 Mar 2017

Sustainability is the forgotten half of globalisation, says Achim Steiner

News / Energy

Nepal is diversifying its renewable energy mix

More than 30 per cent of Nepalese have never used electricity. The other 70 per cent live with blackouts that can extend up to 16 hours a day during the winters, or are using solar panels to light the...

24 Nov 2016

Nepal is diversifying its renewable energy mix