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China, US step up climate change cooperation

Senior officials from China and the United States, the world's two largest economies and greenhouse gases emitters, agreed on Friday to intensify their cooperation on climate change. "On the basis of ...

3 Jun 2013

China, US step up climate change cooperation

News / Energy

Microsoft providing low-cost, solar-powered broadband access in Africa

Early this month, Microsoft Corp announced the launch of a pilot project delivering low-cost wireless broadband access in parts of Kenya via solar-powered base stations. A project carried out in colla...

15 Feb 2013

Microsoft providing low-cost, solar-powered broadband access in Africa

News / Energy

Demand of solar panel to increase in Asia Pacific

A new report on solar panel demand in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region predicts a capacity increase of 13.5 gigawatts in 2013 and forecasts a healthy growth rate of 50 percent year-over-year. Industry a...

20 Feb 2013

Demand of solar panel to increase in Asia Pacific

News / Energy

China hits US, South Korea with solar material duties, skirts EU decision

China's Commerce Ministry issued preliminary anti-dumping duties on imports of U.S. and South Korean solar-grade polysilicon on Thursday, but made no decision on tariffs on European Union exports of t...

19 Jul 2013

China hits US, South Korea with solar material duties, skirts EU decision

News / Energy

Japan's energy mix requires examining trade-offs

...renewables now that a feed-in tariff scheme has been introduced, Yamaji said. Under the scheme, utilities are required to buy all electricity generated from renewable sources at preset premiums for up...

10 Sep 2012

Japan's energy mix requires examining trade-offs

News / Carbon & Climate

World can end poverty and limit warming, study says

Eradicating poverty by making modern energy supplies available to everyone is not only compatible with measures to slow climate change, a new study says. It is a necessary condition for it. But the au...

25 Feb 2013

World can end poverty and limit warming, study says

News / Energy

Size key to success in solar panel sector

China dominates the world in solar-panel production because it has achieved economies of scale and well-developed supply chains, according to a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and t...

9 Sep 2013

Size key to success in solar panel sector

News / Energy

South Australia breezes ahead of renewable energy targets

The wind industry generated over half of the electricity consumed in South Australia on Wednesday and contributed record levels of power - over 85 per cent of the overall power generated - during Mond...

7 Sep 2012

South Australia breezes ahead of renewable energy targets

News / Energy

Mecca seeks to lead Saudi Arabia’s solar energy expansion

...renewables. The city on January 5 plans to select from a group of at least 20 bidders competing to build and operate facilities producing 385 gigawatt-hours per year of power including 100 megawatts o...

23 Sep 2012

Mecca seeks to lead Saudi Arabia’s solar energy expansion

News / Green Buildings

By 2050, urban buildings 'breathe and adapt'

What will a skyscraper built in 2050 look like? How will it function? Rather than being static as they are today, in the future buildings will produce food, energy and resources, according to a new re...

8 Mar 2013

By 2050, urban buildings 'breathe and adapt'

News / Energy

'Solar is for the rich' myth well and truly busted

The anti-solar brigade is running out of ammunition after yet another popular myth - that rich city dwellers represent the majority of solar installs - has again been shown to be completely and utterl...

24 Sep 2012

'Solar is for the rich' myth well and truly busted

News / Energy

Asia urged to rethink energy policy

Countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including the Philippines, must base their national energy policies on the concept that the “era of cheap energy is over” to insulate themselves from threats of p...

22 Oct 2012

Asia urged to rethink energy policy

News / Carbon & Climate

Poorest hit hardest by carbon policies, report says

The government has once again been urged to rethink its carbon cutting policies, after a new report revealed a serious discrepancy between how much the richest and poorest of society benefit from emis...

13 Mar 2013

Poorest hit hardest by carbon policies, report says

News / Energy

China helps push global solar and wind sectors to record highs

Growth in China, Japan and an awakened US, together with a still healthy European market, saw the world’s total installed capacity rise to 101-GW in 2012, according to the European Photovoltaic Indust...

12 Feb 2013

China helps push global solar and wind sectors to record highs

News / Energy

Asia's solar power project being developed

Welspun Energy has commissioned Asia's largest solar power project in Rajasthan ahead of schedule. India's biggest developer of solar projects commissioned 50-megawatt solar power plant at Jodhpur dis...

13 Mar 2013

Asia's solar power project being developed

News / Energy

Suntech jumps on Buffett buyout report: China overnight

Chinese solar manufacturers rallied in New York, led by Suntech Power Holdings Co, on a report that billionaire Warren Buffett may be interested in buying the company forced into bankruptcy after defa...

9 Apr 2013

Suntech jumps on Buffett buyout report: China overnight

News / Energy

Wind could power nine million homes in Eastern Europe

Governments in Central and Eastern Europe have been warned that billions of euros worth of investment in wind energy could be lost unless support mechanisms become more stable. A report analysing pote...

6 Feb 2013

Wind could power nine million homes in Eastern Europe

News / Energy

US$6.8 billion solar projects underway in Middle East

The Middle East is forging ahead with its plan to boost solar power within their regional energy mix with ten major solar projects worth a combined $6.8 billion currently under way in the region, said...

6 Feb 2013

US$6.8 billion solar projects underway in Middle East

News / Food & Agriculture

World not coping well with change in diets, FAO says

Urbanization, economic growth and other transformations are causing changes in lifestyles and diets in many parts of the world and countries are not coping as well as they could, (Food and Agriculture...

18 Mar 2013

World not coping well with change in diets, FAO says

News / Carbon & Climate

UN climate chief welcomes Obama plan, wants US energy czar

President Barack Obama's new pledges on curbing carbon emissions drew a cautious welcome from the U.N. climate change chief on Thursday, but she said no country was doing enough and proposed the White...

28 Jun 2013

UN climate chief welcomes Obama plan, wants US energy czar

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