Planes, Trains and (Big) Automobiles: How Heavy Transport Can Reduce Emissions and Save Money.

The world is vastly underestimating the benefits of acting on climate change. Recent research from the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate finds that bold climate action could deliver at least $26 trillion in economic

African Development Bank approves new financing program for energy providers, 4.5 mln people in sub-Saharan Africa to benefit from off-grid power by 2025.

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, July 12, 2019 – The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved an innovative multinational financing program for Distributed Energy Service Companies (DESCOs), which would see 900,000 households in sub-Saharan Africa – about 4.5

World's First Train Line Powered Directly by Solar Energy Will Launch Soon.

The world’s first railway lines directly powered by sunlight are set to launch next month in the United Kingdom.

Americans want mandatory rooftop solar.

In today’s EGEB:

Renewable Energy Provides Growing Source Of Skilled Jobs For Africa And Asia.

We Just Experienced the Hottest June on Record and It's Part of a Larger, Troubling Trend.

At a Glance Four separate analyses, including from NOAA and NASA, found Earth's warmest June on record was in 2019. Earth is on track for one of its warmest years dating to 1880 based on trends from the first six months of 2019. Among areas most above average

Leaving no one behind: using a multidimensional approach to eradicate poverty and monitor SDG progress at the national level.

Statement by Abdoulaye Mar Dieye at the launch of UNDP and OPHI Handbook: How to Build a National Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): Using the MPI to inform the SDGs Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,

Nights will provide little relief during brutal heat wave.

While high temperatures get most of the attention during a heat wave, it's the nighttime lows that can be a hidden danger because overnight heat can have a profound effect on human health.

Heat Waves in the Age of Climate Change: Longer, More Frequent and More Dangerous.

Two thirds of the United States is expected to bake under what could be record high temperatures heading into the weekend.

Are we safe? Of course not'.

As part of our Stormproofing the City series, Klaus Jacob, who predicted the devastation wrought by 2012 storm, tells Lilah Rapto

Uhuru opens Lake Turkana wind power farm, Africa’s largest

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday commissioned the Lake Turkana Wind Power farm, Africa’s largest wind power project, with an installed capacity of 310 megawatts of clean, reliable and low cost electricity.

Οι αυξημένες θερμοκρασίες απειλούν σοβαρά την λειτουργία των πυρηνικών της Γαλλίας - Ενδεχόμενο να τεθεί εκτός μονάδα 2,600MW την Τρίτη

Υπαρκτό και σοβαρό είναι το ενδεχόμενο να τεθεί εκτός λειτουργίας η μονάδα πυρηνικής ενέργειας Golfech ισχύος 2,600 MW, που βρίσκεται στο νότο της Γαλλίας αρχής γενομένης από τις 23 Ιουλίου, όπως

Επιστροφή στο κάρβουνο: η Πολωνία διεκδικεί τη θέση του Επιτρόπου Ενέργειας!

Το χαρτοφυλάκιο ενέργειας προσελκύει την προσοχή των κρατών μελών στην ΕΕ Η πολωνική κυβέρνηση δήλωσε ότι η εξασφάλιση μιας «καλής θέσης» στην επόμενη

Coal clinging on in South and East Asia

Global demand for coal to power continues to be king, but the upside may be limited Global coal consumption may have peaked in 2013 at a shade under 3.9bn t oe but its legacy infrastructure may give it an in-built resilience to ensure that any decline is both shallow and long.

New York Makes Offshore Wind History With 1.7 GW Procurement.

Today (18 July 2019), New York Gov. Andrew M.

Boosting private investment in the SDGs.

The Paris Climate Agreement and the Agenda 2030 represent an unprecedented consensus across the the world’s governments, to align our efforts on a comprehensive and ambitious development agenda.

World’s largest solar farm to be built in Australia.

The world’s largest solar farm may be built in the desert of Australia’s Northern Territory, according to theGuardian.

Join a climate strike of millions: 20th September 2019

Three million people, of all ages and in hundreds of countries, walking out of schools and workplaces together for one shared purpose, a Global Climate Strike.

Economic growth at odds with the environment, NGO says.

Policymakers should urgently support alternatives to ‘green growth’ and face the reality that tackling environmental breakdown may require a downscaling of economic production, the European Environmental Bureau argues in a new report.

Renewable news from East Africa..

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to Commission Largest Wind Farm in Africa