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New leader may not mean new climate policies, despite Australian solar success

...renewables perspective?" Dunn said. The country's two biggest carbon polluters, AGL Energy Ltd and Origin Energy Ltd, have shown signs they are aware of the trend, which puts at risk some of their A$2...

25 Nov 2015

New leader may not mean new climate policies, despite Australian solar success

Opinion / Energy

Asia takes the lead on sustainable energy but many still have none

Asian countries are making a vital contribution to achieving global sustainable energy goals, according to a new World Bank report. However, while the region performs strongly on ensuring electricity ...

26 Jun 2015

Asia takes the lead on sustainable energy but many still have none

News / Energy

Chinese bid to rescue Europe’s nuclear industry

...renewables as part of the mix, because, until we get storage right, renewables are unreliable.” Critics of the government’s policy include Alan Whitehead, an opposition Labour party Member of Parliame...

10 Aug 2015

Chinese bid to rescue Europe’s nuclear industry

News / Energy

Floating solar project completed in Japan

Japanese firm Daiwa Lease has completed a 1-megawatt floating solar power project in the Osaka, Japan. More than 4,000 solar panels have been supplied by Jinko Solar for the Dream Solar project which ...

12 Aug 2015

Floating solar project completed in Japan

News / Carbon & Climate

The climate risk to your business

...renewables. For example, although it is challenging to arrange financing for a solar project, it does so anyway. These deals can be tricky because the industry's business models - such as solar leas...

6 Nov 2015

The climate risk to your business

News / Policy & Finance

Climate change is business opportunity for China

...renewables. Some of their investments, for example in hydropower, are controversial. But the money they are ploughing into non-fossil fuels outstrips the investments of the US and Europe combined acro...

17 Dec 2015

Climate change is business opportunity for China

News / Energy

Renewable energy trading set for big boost as SC upholds green obligation

Compulsory purchase of renewable energy got a major boost last week from a Supreme Court order, even though it is likely to increase the power cost for a host of industries dependent on captive power ...

27 May 2015

Renewable energy trading set for big boost as SC upholds green obligation

News / Energy

Sunny outlook for renewables

...renewables market by tapping on the roof of buildings for solar energy and by recycling its resources, said speakers at the International Green Building Conference held in Singapore earlier this month...

22 Sep 2015

Sunny outlook for renewables

News / Corporate Responsibility

IKEA steps up climate action with €1 billion pledge

IKEA Group and IKEA Foundation on Thursday announced that it would spend €1 billion this year on renewable energy and on supporting communities impacted by climate change. The announcement comes as g...

15 Jun 2015

IKEA steps up climate action with €1 billion pledge

News / Carbon & Climate

If carbon pricing is so great, why isn’t it working?

...renewables are dropping fast and they could keep on dropping. As a result, climate mitigation could turn out to be less expensive than economists have assumed. “My view is that a carbon price is impe...

26 Jul 2016

If carbon pricing is so great, why isn’t it working?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

To build a better future, we must imagine ourselves there

...renewables. And just look at the way Elon Musk’s crusading drive to get a US$35,000 Tesla into the market by the end of next year has revolutionized people’s expectations of the future of the car ind...

25 May 2016

To build a better future, we must imagine ourselves there

News / Energy

Dodging costs and power cuts, Tanzanian firms profit from solar drive

Mkarima Tarimo, managing director of Tarimo Industries, a Tanzanian company producing ice cream, yoghurt and fruit juice for export to Europe, is a happy man. Since January, the firm, based in the nor...

2 Aug 2016

Dodging costs and power cuts, Tanzanian firms profit from solar drive

News / Policy & Finance

Obama plan’s boost for Paris climate conference

...renewables and that no new coal-powered plants will be built. The fact that Obama’s regulations are backed by a number of power companies that see the regulations as an opportunity to invest in renew...

7 Aug 2015

Obama plan’s boost for Paris climate conference

News / Policy & Finance

IPCC special report to scrutinise ‘feasibility’ of 1.5C climate goal

Dr Hoesung Lee, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told delegates at a meeting in Geneva, which is designed to flesh out the contents of a special report on 1.5C, that they...

17 Aug 2016

IPCC special report to scrutinise ‘feasibility’ of 1.5C climate goal

News / Energy

Sarawak not ready to 'export' hydropower to Peninsular Malaysia

Sarawak is not ready to export its hydro energy to the Peninsular Malaysia for now. Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB) chief executive officer Datuk Torstein Dale Sjoveit said this was because it had committ...

26 Oct 2015

Sarawak not ready to 'export' hydropower to Peninsular Malaysia

Press Releases / Geothermal Resources Council (GRC)

The Geothermal Resources Council announces 2016 Amateur Photo Contest

The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) is pleased to announce this year’s Amateur Photo Contest. The purpose of the contest is to showcase quality photography featuring geothermal energy around ...

10 Mar 2016

The Geothermal Resources Council announces 2016 Amateur Photo Contest

News / Policy & Finance

UN climate fund approves first projects ahead of Paris summit

A multi-billion dollar fund set up by the United Nations to help poor countries tackle climate change on Friday approved its first eight projects, which will receive $168 million, a key step before a ...

6 Nov 2015

UN climate fund approves first projects ahead of Paris summit

Opinion / Policy & Finance

It's time to run the red lights

Maybe it’s galloping old age, but few things enrage me more than people running stop signals—whether bus or truck drivers, motorists or cyclists. Partly it’s having been hit so many times by all of th...

13 Oct 2016

It's time to run the red lights

News / Food & Agriculture

Danfoss: The sustainable business of cooling

Every year, as much as one-third of the food produced for human consumption globally is lost or wasted, estimates the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). This amounts to 1.3 billi...

3 May 2016

Danfoss: The sustainable business of cooling

News / Energy

Apple to build more solar projects in China, green its suppliers

In addition to bringing on an additional 200 MW in northern, eastern and southern China, the tech giant said it will launch an initiative to "drive its manufacturing partners to become more energy eff...

23 Oct 2015

Apple to build more solar projects in China, green its suppliers

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