Uruguay realiza un sorprendente cambio y obtiene casi el 95% de su...
En menos de diez años, el país ha reducido drásticamente su huella de carbono y sus costes de electricidad, sin subsidios del Gobierno. Los delegados de la cumbre de París pueden aprender mucho de este...
View ArticleLe projet d’énergie solaire le plus performant en Afrique illumine le Rwanda
La centrale est-africaine a été construite en moins d’un an. Des emplois ont ainsi été créés et le pays est bien parti pour fournir de l’électricité à la moitié de la population d’ici 2017Read this...
View ArticleGreen Investment Bank sell-off plans alarm MPs and peers
MPs say a privatised Green Investment Bank won’t be obliged to fund eco-friendly projectsControversial plans to privatise the government’s Green Investment Bank (GIB) have run into serious trouble in...
View ArticleMalcolm Turnbull lifts Abbott ban on government finance for wind power
Clean Energy Finance Corporation to remain able to back wind projects as Coalition reverses ban that never came into forceRelated: Paris climate talks: Bishop hails 'historic' day as nearly 200...
View ArticleCameron’s ‘greenest-ever’ government should be red-faced on diesel subsidies
Even as the UK commits to lower carbon emissions at UN talks, it is handing out huge subsidies to heavy polluters while discouraging renewables investorsEven a successful fiction writer would be...
View ArticleThe innovators: this solar table charges your phone without direct sunlight
Using dye-sensitised solar cells, household objects can harvest energy from indirect light and store itThe kitchen table has been the place where many new inventions and ideas have been sketched out,...
View ArticleMajor energy U-turn needed to meet Paris targets, government warned
Conservatives’ attacks on wind, solar and other ‘clean’ technologies has undermined ability to meet CO2 targets, experts sayThe government has been warned that a major U-turn in energy policy is...
View ArticleGreat Barrier Reef water quality under threat without urgent funding – report
Queensland report calls for corporate and philanthropic funding to help cut water pollution as a bulwark against climate changeGovernments will need to move faster and find more money to meet...
View ArticleSpanish energy giant Abengoa's collapse predicted by 17-year-old
Teenager’s economics project noticed flaws in accounting a year before solar and wind power firm tries to avoid becoming Spain’s biggest bankruptcyAs Spanish engineering and renewable energy giant...
View ArticleClimate change and the continual demand for economic growth | Letters
The agreement reached at the COP21 Paris climate change talks is certainly a great improvement on anything that has gone before (One paragraph at a time: how the deal was done to save the planet, 14...
View ArticleThe Guardian view on UK energy policy after Paris: Amber Rudd must flick the...
The energy secretary played a positive part in positive global discussions. She must now rethink and fix the government’s destructive record on climate at homeWhen Laurent Fabius brought down his green...
View ArticleThe Australian defends 'racist' cartoon on freedom of speech grounds
The Bill Leak cartoon showing Indians attempting to eat solar panels was labelled ‘unequivocally racist’, but newspaper claims critics didn’t get jokeThe Australian newspaper has defended the...
View ArticleUK is going into reverse on clean energy, says former Environment Agency head
Government must develop renewables as well as fracking but has damaged viability of shale gas by cancelling a carbon capture and storage scheme, says Lord Chris SmithThe UK is going into reverse on...
View ArticleYves Parlier: driven by the wind and the waves
The French yachtsman is pioneering the use of kite technology to produce clean power for cargo shipsThe only souvenir Yves Parlier has kept from his long career sailing the seven seas is the skeleton...
View ArticleWhy I tried to install solar panels on George Osborne’s roof | Josie Long
While other leaders at the climate summit in Paris announced awesome solar projects, the UK is cutting renewable energy subsidies, and guess who’s to blameOne day scientists will work out a way to meet...
View ArticleDavid Cameron urged to reconsider solar subsidy cuts following Paris climate...
Critics say the PM should make no move to cut subsidies until he knows how it would affect the UK’s ability to meet its Paris accord obligationsThe prime minister has been urged to intervene in planned...
View ArticleOsborne is sabotaging the green energy we need to hit Paris targets | Jeremy...
Lowering the global warming ceiling means the world can burn only a fraction of existing fossil fuel reserves. But the chancellor is still supporting oil and gasOne of the biggest transformative...
View ArticleAlex Salmond brands Trump 'loser' after judges reject windfarm appeal
Trump hits back at ‘hasbeen’ former first minister after losing appeal against planning permission for offshore turbines near Aberdeenshire golf courseHe may be the clear poll leader in the Republican...
View ArticleUK cuts to renewable energy make a mockery of its pledge at Paris climate talks
The Tory party’s cuts to clean energy subsidies won’t save consumers more than a few pounds a year – but will cost the industry, and the climate, dearly “My priority is to ensure energy bills for...
View ArticleUK solar panel subsidy cuts branded 'huge and misguided'
Conservative government cuts financial aid by 65% despite its own review showing the move puts 18,700 jobs at riskThe government has decided to cut subsidies to householders installing rooftop solar...
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