Investors want sustainable investments, but what are the criteria? The United Nations has guidance.
The United Nations Global Compact is a series of principles (Exhibit 1) that have become a…
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Global surface temperatures in 2019 are on track to be either the second or third warmest since records began in the mid-1800s, behind only 2016 and possibly 2017.
On top of the long-term warming…
Good year for wind energy with 51.3 GW new installations.
According to the 14th 'Global Wind Report' from the Global Wind Energy Council and as GWEC director of market intelligence Karin Ohlenforst…
Solid-state sodium-ion batteries are far safer than conventional lithium-ion batteries, which pose a risk of fire and explosions, but their performance has been too weak to offset the safety…
PV installations in countries outside of China are forecast to grow 43 percent in 2019, IHS Markit predicts. Europe will see even higher growth, led by Spain.
Solar Steel, division of Gonvarri Steel Services is supplying 500 MW of its RackSmarT fixed tilt structure to the PV Project named Nunez de Balboa, which will become the largest PV plant installed to…
By combining an unorthodox solvent and a genetically engineered bacterium, a team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts has discovered a groundbreaking…
Rising demand for solar panels is having a major effect on the worldwide price of silver, which could lead to solar panel production costs becoming far higher in the future, new research from the…
Study shows how destabilised natural systems will worsen man-made problem.
The release of methane and carbon dioxide from thawing permafrost will accelerate global warming and add up to $70tn (£54tn…
A low-cost shift to clean energy is now feasible for every region of the world, owing to the plummeting costs of solar and wind power, and breakthroughs in energy storage. The total system costs of…
Toyota, Kenworth, the Port of Los Angeles and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) say they have taken the next great leap towards the future of zero-emission trucking, unveiling the first of…
REScoop is asking candidates and their political parties to guarantee new rights of citizens under the Clean Energy Package.
The European federation of renewable energy co-ops is asking candidates…
New research has found that global deforestation is on the rise.
The report, found that the tropics lost 12 million hectares of tree cover in 2018, the fourth-highest annual loss since records began…
A new study has found that pesticides and antibiotics are polluting streams across Europe.
The study, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, tested samples from 29 waterways in…
An international team released 2018 ocean heat content observations in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on January 16, 2019. The newly available observations show that the year 2018 is the hottest…
By local standards, Alaska has been sweltering this spring. Temperature records have been set across the state, including in Kotzebue, where the thermometer reached 42 degrees Fahrenheit on the last…
File this one under K for Karma. US coal power plants have spent the past few decades messing with the nation’s water resources, and now water is turning around and messing with coal. The Energy…