Beyond coal: scaling up clean energy to fight global poverty
Working and discussion papersOctober 2016 Ilmi Granoff, James Ryan Hogarth, Sarah Wykes and Alison Doig Diese [...]
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Out of the starting blocks
Tracking progress on corporate climate action Diese Meldung teilen [...]
2016 Right Livelihood Awards Uphold Fundamental Human Rights and Values in the Face of War and Repression
The Laureates of this year’s Right Livelihood Award, widely referred to as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, [...]
Climate Change dominates opening of 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly kicked off yesterday, September 20 in New York City. Over 140 [...]
EU final energy consumption below 2020 targets
A steady decline in energy consumption in the period from 2000 to 2014 has lowered EU [...]
G20 should enact carbon pricing
G20 countries as driver for global implementation of Paris Agreement – Joint proposal by industry association, [...]
G20 not yet on the necessary transition from a “brown” to “green” economy
The G20 needs to make more effort to move to a green, low-carbon economy, especially in [...]
Climate disasters increase risk of armed conflict in multi-ethnic countries
Climate disasters like heat-waves or droughts enhance the risk of armed conflicts in countries with high [...]
Obama Administration Announces Clean Energy Savings for All Americans Initiative
President Obama is committed to ensuring that every American family can choose to go solar and [...]
Denmark and Germany sign first cooperation agreement on mutual cross-border pilot auctions for PV installations
The Danish and the German governments signed a cooperation agreement on the mutual opening of auctions [...]
China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet
Chinese authorities have announced the destruction of thousands of monastic dwellings and expulsion of monks, nuns [...]
Demand an Investigation
ExxonMobil, one of America’s biggest fracking companies, is now trying to push for hydraulic fracturing projects [...]
Coal-burning EU countries make their neighbours sick
Coal pollution and its health impacts travel far beyond borders, and a full coal phase-out in [...]
The EU needs to raise its climate ambition to secure investment in the future
The European Union must wake up to a new post-Paris Agreement reality. It needs an ambitious [...]
Don’t wipe out solar research in Australia, top scientists urge
Leading scientists have called on both major political parties not to ‘unintentionally kill’ solar cell research [...]
Some G7 Countries Still Providing Billions in Financing for Coal Plants: Findings from Our New Report
The Paris Agreement provides momentum to shift global resources towards low-emission and climate-resilient development. Unfortunately, continued [...]