The International Energy Agency (IEA)’s latest World Energy Outlook (WEO) describes the global energy system in 2030 as one in which clean energy technologies play an ever-increasing role. The report says the future of global energy will include nearly 10 times more electric cars worldwide, solar generating more electricity, low-emissions energy sources supplying more than […]
Canada’s carbon emissions are down for the first time since the pandemic, according to a 2023 estimate from publicly funded think tank the Canadian Climate Institute. The drop of 0.8 percent between 2022 and 2023 brings the total reduction since the baseline year of 2005 to eight percent — a long way from the 2030 […]
According to a new report by Rystad Energy, converting production facilities for upstream oil and gas so that they are powered by electricity fueled by renewable sources or natural gas that would have otherwise been burned and flared could eliminate more than 80 percent of the sector’s associated emissions. In the Norwegian Continental Shelf, oil […]
The future is looking bright for green jobs in the solar industry. According to the latest National Solar Jobs Census, published by the nonprofit Interstate Renewable Energy Council, solar jobs in the U.S. grew by nearly 6% in 2023. With this growth, U.S. solar industry jobs reached 279,447 last year, a record high, Reuters reported. […]
Great Britain just had its greenest summer on record, with less than one-fifth of electricity coming from non-renewable sources, according to data commissioned by The Guardian. The record comes after the UK’s now-annual Contracts for Difference (CfD) event — a government-funded auction that provides clean energy subsidies for renewable and clean energy efforts — which […]
On a visit to Wisconsin Thursday, President Joe Biden announced $7.3 billion in financing for 16 rural clean energy projects to be directed by rural electric cooperatives through the Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program. The combination of New ERA and other Inflation Reduction Act-funded rural green energy projects comprise the biggest rural electrification investment […]
Volvo Cars has scrapped its goal of selling only electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030, as demand for battery-powered vehicles falls. The Swedish carmaker said it is now aiming for “90 to 100 per cent of its global sales volume by 2030 to consist of electrified cars,” including a combination of EVs and plug-in hybrids, reported […]
Quick Key Facts What Is ‘Climate Fiction’? Climate fiction is a genre of fiction that emerged in the first decades of the 21st century in response to growing awareness of the climate crisis caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels. It is often abbreviated as “cli-fi.” As the term “cli-fi” suggests, climate fiction was […]
The Biden-Harris administration announced on Thursday the finalization of a plan for solar energy expansion on federal lands in the Western states of Arizona, Nevada, California, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. As part of President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda and a wider plan to decarbonize the power sector […]
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