One World – One Environment – One Network
Many sustainable investors envision propellers generating clean energy at wind farms dotting every hill in sight. But researchers are warning that too many wind farms could harm the sustainability of the popular renewable resource....
Floating solar photovoltaics systems are a technology already in widespread use, especially in Japan. Installing them on more than 24,000 reservoirs in the United States could generate around 10 per cent of the nation’s...
Karachi is launching a Green Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) network that will introduce buses running on bio-methane made from cow dung. The project is receiving funding from the international Green Climate Fund. Karachi is...
The bulk of the environmental impact of electronic devices is due to their manufacture and disposal, according to researchers at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. They want to motivate youth to hold on...
Some of the largest corporations in key US states view climate change as a growing risk to their bottom line and reputation among consumers and investors, according to new analysis from CDP. The new...
California has become the first state to require electric buses on all public transit routes. The rule accelerates the state’s transition to cleaner vehicles. California’s clean air agency, the California Air Resources Board, ruled...
China could significantly increase solar power production if it fought smog more aggressively, according to a new study. If emissions from all sectors were eliminated, China could provide up to 128 terawatt hours of...
An international consortium of manufacturers, technology experts, financiers and energy companies are making headway in reducing carbon emission from cement and concrete production, a major contributor to climate change. Concrete giant LafargeHolcim is working...
Insurance companies around the world are ending insurance for coal companies, mines and power plants, according to Unfriend Coal’s second annual scorecard on the coal industry. Unfriend Coal’s second annual scorecard ranks 24 of...
A new report by the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction sees huge untapped potential to reduce emissions in the global buildings and construction sector. Emissions from buildings and construction may have already peaked...
An iron molecule that can function both as a photocatalyst to produce fuel and in solar cells to produce electricity has been discovered. It could replace the more expensive and rare metals used today....
The European Commission has laid out plans to become climate neutral by 2050. In line with the Paris Agreement objective, it is urging Europe to invest in realistic technological solutions and empower citizens. The...
As much as 20 per cent of jet fuel burned in Norway in 2030 could be biofuel made from the country’s forest residues. This alone could cut greenhouse gas emissions from Norway’s aviation sector...
Carbon-intensive industries risk crippling devaluations within a decade unless they take bold actions to combat climate change, according to Canadian researchers. John Dyer reports from Boston. Writing in the Journal of Sustainable Finance &...
Environmental NGOs across Europe have launched a new initiative urging the European Commission to phase out palm oil in biodiesel by 1 February 2019. Sixty-nine per cent of Europeans are in favour of this....
MIT engineers have developed a heat-rejecting film that could be applied to a building’s windows to reflect up to 70 per cent of the sun’s incoming heat. Their invention could lower energy bills by...
More efficient clean fuels could be within reach, thanks to new research that is helping commercialize the process of electrochemical CO2 conversion into clean fuel technologies. The technique is based on a laser that...
Light and small hydrogen storage units made of bamboo could promote the mobile use of fuel cells. Two researchers have developed a special process that enables them to chemically convert bamboo into gas storage....
UN Environment’s District Energy in Cities Initiative, which unlocks private sector finance to cut greenhouse gas emissions from heating and cooling, has been named best partnership in the energy sector at a global summit...
Biofuels will heat more homes and fuel more vehicles, leading the growth in renewable energy worldwide through 2023, according to the International Energy Agency, or IEA. John Dyer reports. The IEA’s Renewables 2018 market...
