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12/6/2013
Has the US peaked? The latest data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows its emissions fell by 3.8 per cent in 2012, to a level not seen since the mid-1990s.According to figures in the IEA's report "Redrawing the Energy-Climate ...
11/6/2013
The world cannot afford to wait for a new global climate change agreement to come into force in 2020, because doing so will mean an end to hopes of limiting global warming to moderate levels, one of the world’s foremost authorities on energy has ...
23/5/2013
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s
government should take steps to contain the cost of the German energy switch from nuclear power to renewables, the International Energy Agency said.
German consumers have so far borne the brunt through power ...
22/5/2013
Disaster is about to strike in western Kentucky, a full-blown nuclear catastrophe involving hundreds of tons of enriched uranium tainted with plutonium, technetium, arsenic, beryllium and a toxic chemical brew. But this nuke calamity will be no ...
15/5/2013
“Energiewende” may not be a household word in the United States today, but U.S. citizens and policymakers are likely to hear more about it. It’s the name of Germany's ambitious energy transformation, which aims to move the country to at least 80 ...
6/5/2013
Another week of international climate negotiations ended in Bonn, Germany last Friday, but there was little mid-level bureaucrats could do when world leaders remain in thrall to the fossil fuel industry, say environmentalists.
"The main ...
6/5/2013
State of the Union addresses are wearying rituals, in which stitched-together lists of never-gonna-happen goals are woven into idealistic catchphrases, analyzed as rhetoric by an unqualified panel of poetry-critic-for-a-night political reporters, ...
4/5/2013
It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future. But policymakers have to do just that as they craft rules that improve the economy, protect energy supplies and mitigate climate change.
To solve these problems, think tanks and ...
27/4/2013
As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchill’s world. Their ...
25/4/2013
On Monday, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told the State Department that the information in the State Department’s Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Keystone XL pipeline is “insufficient.” Among EPA’s many concerns ...
23/4/2013
Should trade wars and protecting local jobs get in the way of
clean energy?
That's the dilemma before India – and the world – at the moment. Desperately short of power, but with an average of 300 sunny days a year, India is aggressively ...
22/4/2013
The Indian
government will unveil proposed regulations Monday to create
subsidies and expand a "Buy Indian" mandate to give a boost to its lackluster solar-power sector, putting it on a collision course with the U.S.The new rules will ...
20/4/2013
In the U.S., when the topic of
clean energy comes up, we like to debate concepts like climate change or global warming, turning it into a political debate more than a strategic one.
Subsidies to industries such as wind or solar, no matter how ...
16/4/2013
A national climate change plan is nowhere in sight from Congress, and last week the Obama administration pushed back a deadline to crack down on power plant emissions. But despite those--and many other--familiar setbacks, a new report has found ...
10/4/2013
In an industrial warehouse on the outskirts of Stuttgart, the sooty past is shaking hands with Germany's green-energy future. In one corner sits a relic destined for a museum: a cast-iron engine as big as a bus, which was used until the early ...
10/4/2013
Asia is moving along a dangerous path that will threaten its energy security, worsen environmental damages and widen the gap between rich and poor unless the region dramatically changes its course of energy use, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) ...
6/4/2013
The economic benefits to Canada from oilsands industrial expansion may be “considerably less” than what the Canadian
government and industry representatives predict, if the planet collectively takes action to slash the heat-trapping greenhouse ...
1/4/2013
Tara Lohan author of Water Matters: Why We Need to Act Now to Save Our Most Critical Resource interviews Richard Heinberg about ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth.
If you want to understand how much energy costs, ...
29/3/2013
If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them. --Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Colorado Springs is Colorado`s second ...
28/3/2013
Removing worldwide fossil fuel
subsidies worth $1.9tr would have "major gains for economic growth and the environment" the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said yesterday.
A study by the international body estimates support for products ...
28/3/2013
The International Monetary Fund has urged nations to slash their $US1.9 trillion ($1.8 trillion) in annual energy
subsidies because they increase inequality, boost greenhouse gas emissions and limit investment in the renewable energy ...
27/3/2013
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is urging national
governments around the world to roll back or eliminate
subsidies on petroleum-based energy sources, estimating that this alone could result in a 13-percent decline in global carbon dioxide ...
21/3/2013
For British entrepreneur Timothy Porter and millions of other Europeans who get generous financial incentives for solar panels, the sun has been very lucrative.
Not only does the
government pay Porter for producing solar energy he ...
13/3/2013
Norway's buzzing little market for pure electric cars has in its very success shown the severe drawbacks to a model that relies on public
subsidies worth as much as $8,200 per car, every year.
Car makers like Nissan, Mitsubishi, Peugeot ...
27/2/2013
The energy game is rigged in favor of fossil fuels because we omit the environmental and health costs of burning
coal, oil and natural gas from their prices.
Subsidies manipulate the game even further. According to conservative estimates from the ...