Even keeping global warming to 2˚C, not the safer 1.5˚C, will need emissions and oil use to peak by 2024 – much earlier than expected based on existing policies.
Environmental group Greenpeace has cautioned that the archipelago needs to set aside a separate fund, potentially worth billions of dollars, to create an independent body to regulate safe radioactive waste management.
The country’s environment and nuclear safety minister lays out the administration's reasons for quitting atomic energy after the last few plants closed this month, even as interest in the technology slowly rises in other parts of the world.
By
Steffi Lemke
In the World Economic Forum’s 2023 Global Risks Report, nine of the ten biggest risks for the next decade have a water-related component.
By
Aromar Revi, Joyeeta Gupta and Quentin Grafton
To accelerate the net-zero transition and reduce Russia and China's global influence as the world’s leading providers of nuclear projects, shareholder governments must reconsider their outdated stance against the technology.
By
Håvard Halland and
Jessica Lovering
Japanese firms venture into solar energy storage using discarded electric vehicle batteries, complementing the country's move to continue building more solar power plants.