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Press Releases / Designing City Resilience

Resilience – isn’t it just good plan making?

Resilience means subtly different things to different organisations, academics and practitioners. Ben Smith, AECOM Director of Sustainable Development, Europe, Middle East, Africa and India, goes beyo...

15 May 2015

Resilience – isn’t it just good plan making?

News / Waste

Bacteria can turn rotting food into renewable energy

In an era of climate change, rising ocean temperatures and extreme weather, scientists are searching for solutions to global fluctuations — and one might be right under their noses.According to a stor...

27 Nov 2013

Bacteria can turn rotting food into renewable energy

News / Policy & Finance

Only a balanced 2015 climate agreement acceptable: BASIC countries

The 2015 climate agreement will have to be based on all four pillars of the negotiations — mitigation, adaptation, finance and technology — for the four emerging economies, India, China, Brazil and So...

11 Aug 2014

Only a balanced 2015 climate agreement acceptable: BASIC countries

News / Energy

Creating a sustainable energy strategy: An interview with Queensland's Mark McArdle

...renewables in your state’s energy mix? How do you balance the state’s role in the energy value chain and its carbon footprint, given that Queensland is an energy exporter? Renewables are currently pla...

24 Dec 2013

Creating a sustainable energy strategy: An interview with Queensland's Mark McArdle

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The OPEC oil embargo at 40

DENVER – Forty years ago, the United States and much of Europe learned difficult lessons about their dangerous addiction to fossil fuels. Following Israel’s victory in the Yom Kippur War, the Arab mem...

12 Nov 2013

The OPEC oil embargo at 40

News / Energy

Solar mergers likely to accelerate, Trina founder says

The pace of consolidation in the solar manufacturing industry will accelerate in the next three years as the cost of the technology declines and installations surge, the founder of the fourth-biggest ...

27 Jan 2014

Solar mergers likely to accelerate, Trina founder says

News / Food & Agriculture

Croppers pose new threat to Amazon rainforest

Despite Brazil having made great strides in reducing logging in the Amazon region, a US study says the country faces a renewed threat to its forests. The report’s authors − who focused on the Amazon s...

13 Oct 2014

Croppers pose new threat to Amazon rainforest

Solar desalination plant in Saudi Arabia

News / Water

Renewable energy for desalination: An interview with HE Dr Abdulrahman Al-Ibrahim

This feature news is part of Singapore International Water Week's (SIWW) series of one-on-one interviews with global water industry leaders, Conversations with Water Leaders. In this edition, HE Dr Ab...

16 Sep 2013

Renewable energy for desalination: An interview with HE Dr Abdulrahman Al-Ibrahim

News / Energy

Moving away from coal could reduce whole of EU's emissions: study

...renewables in its power mix. For example, one scenario would be placing solar power plants around Europe's sunbelt in the south, said the report. However, Stuckenberger told Eco-Business that going fo...

18 Oct 2013

Moving away from coal could reduce whole of EU's emissions: study

News / Energy

Philippines warned of losing $2.5B in potential renewable energy investments

The Philippines risks losing “over $2.5 billion in potential renewable energy investments” due to delays in the crafting of rules and mechanisms that were causing investor uncertainty, a 2013 World Wi...

26 Jun 2013

Philippines warned of losing $2.5B in potential renewable energy investments

News / Policy & Finance

Environment ministry wants liberal felling, transit pass norms for private land

In an attempt to encourage people to take up massive tree plantations outside natural forests, the ministry of environment, forests and climate change has called on states to liberalise felling and tr...

6 Aug 2014

Environment ministry wants liberal felling, transit pass norms for private land

News / Energy

Sumitomo Forestry to build wood biomass thermal power plant

Sumitomo Forestry Co. said Tuesday it will work together with a Sumitomo Chemical Co. unit to build a wood biomass thermal power plant in Mombetsu in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido. The p...

24 Oct 2013

Sumitomo Forestry to build wood biomass thermal power plant

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Setting the right global goals

COPENHAGEN – The world has generally become a much better place during the last half-century. Skeptics will scoff at the idea of overall improvement, but the numbers don’t lie. The task we face now is...

21 May 2014

Setting the right global goals

Press Releases / Financial Times Live | Global Conferences and Events

The FT Global Renewable Energy Summit: Join the debate

...renewables is evolving, and to assess the implications of growing renewable deployment for the future shape of the energy industry. Can the world afford renewables? What is the best policy framework ...

4 Jul 2013

The FT Global Renewable Energy Summit: Join the debate

News / Policy & Finance

EU plans probe on German renewable energy law

The European Union plans an investigation into Germany's renewable energy law due to concerns that exemptions for some firms from charges levied on power users breaches competition rules, a German mag...

14 Jul 2013

EU plans probe on German renewable energy law

Press Releases / Wind Energy Update

Tidal project consent drives forward industry

...Renewables, EDF, Siemens Marine Current Turbines, Alstom Tidal Generation, Atlantis Resources Corporation, Andritz Hydro Hammerfest, DECC and many more, this is an essential forum for both established...

18 Sep 2013

Tidal project consent drives forward industry

News / Energy

Clean energy fund raises US$130 million for regional solar, biogas projects

Armstrong Asset Management on Thursday announced the investments of several financial institutions to the Armstrong South East Asia Clean Energy Fund which will channel US$130 million into different r...

2 Sep 2013

Clean energy fund raises US$130 million for regional solar, biogas projects

News / Manufacturing

China fuels highest solar silicon demand since 2011

The polysilicon industry is headed for its biggest boom since a price war started three years ago. It can thank a burst of solar-panel orders in China and Japan. Demand for the commodity used to make ...

30 Apr 2014

China fuels highest solar silicon demand since 2011

News / Water

Asia Pacific plays critical role in energy-water cooperation: UN

The interdependence between energy and water has never been more pronounced than it is now in the Asia Pacific, where sourcing its energy supply, primarly coal, has severely contributed to the scarcit...

25 Mar 2014

Asia Pacific plays critical role in energy-water cooperation: UN

News / Carbon & Climate

China drives world carbon emissions to record high

World carbon dioxide emissions will hit a record high this year, driven by China's growth and keeping the world far off track from the deep cuts needed to limit climate change, a study said on Sunday....

22 Sep 2014

China drives world carbon emissions to record high

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