Panorama

More than 5,500 British churches to convert to renewable energy

Friday, 03 August 2018 Robin Whitlock Over 5,500 British churches have decided to convert to renewable energy in order to fight climate change. The churches include some of the UK’s most famous cathedrals, reports The Guardian this morning. ...

SoCalGas and DOE Co-Fund Power-to-Gas Research

Thursday, 02 August 2018 REM Southern California Gas Co. is co-funding power-to-gas research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Stanford School of Engineering's Spormann Laboratory. The two entities will receive $800,000 from ...

Australia

New Australian best practice charter puts communities at centre of renewable energy developments

Tuesday, 31 July 2018 Robin Whitlock

Thirty-seven major businesses have officially signed on to a new best practice charter for renewable energy at the Australian Clean Energy Summit.

UK Government making no moves to address collapse in clean energy investment says Environmental Audit Committee

Monday, 30 July 2018 Robin Whitlock The UK Government has not made any realistic attempt to address a current collapse in clean energy investment, according to the Environmental Audit Committee, a House of Commons select committee with the ...

Uganda First African Country to De-Risk Small and Medium Scale Renewable Projects

Friday, 27 July 2018 REM Uganda has become the first African country to sign an agreement with the Regional Liquidity Support Facility, a joint initiative of the African Trade Insurance Agency, a Pan-African and multilateral guarantor, ...

How Eco-Costly is Your Country? New Report Examines the Question

Thursday, 26 July 2018 REM In recent years, EU countries have given increasing importance to setting up and maintaining renewable energy targets. This has definitely marked a step in the right direction towards the achievement of ...

ACCIONA to provide universal access to basic services through acciona.org

Wednesday, 25 July 2018 Robin Whitlock Acciona’s corporate foundation, acciona.org, will focus on contributing to universal access to basic services linked to its activities in renewable energy, water, sanitation and sustainable infrastructure, ...

Stakeholders Release Road Map to Decarbonization for Midsection of US

Tuesday, 24 July 2018 REM A diverse set of stakeholders from across the U.S. Midcontinent region released a road map to identify possible routes toward decarbonization of the region's electricity sector by midcentury. The Midcontinent ...

Fujitsu joins RE100

Tuesday, 24 July 2018 Robin Whitlock Japanese ICT company Fujitsu has announced it has joined RE100, the international initiative led by The Climate Group in partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) which encourages businesses ...

Capital Goods Sector Helping to Fuel Renewable Economy

Tuesday, 24 July 2018 Dan McCue A new report, ‘Bridging low carbon technologies’, from UK-based environmental non-profit and investment research provider CDP, states a low carbon industrial revolution is being driven by innovation ...