Amsterdam to ban all petrol and diesel cars and motorbikes by 2030
Watch . video Gasoline and diesel fueled cars and motorcycles will be banned from Amsterdam from 2030 in an effort to clean up the city’s...
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Wind, solar and hydropower now provide 75% of Scotland’s main source of electricity
Scotland will soon be meeting the equivalent of 100% of its electricity needs from clean energy sources. That’s the prediction made in a...
UN confirms 87 of the world's largest companies have committed to 1.5C target
UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK, 22 September, 2019 — 87 major companies — with a combined market capitalization of over US$2.3 trillion and...
Clean energy in the UK to power over 7 million homes by 2025 at record low prices
Twelve new renewable energy projects have won Contracts for Difference - enough to power over seven million homes at record low costs...
Amazon vows to be carbon neutral by 2040 and to buy 100,000 electric vans from a start-up
Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos pledged to make the largest U.S. e-commerce company net carbon neutral by 2040 and to...
Energy Vault technology enables renewable energy to be stored in 35-ton bricks
Energy Vault technology enables renewable energy to be stored in 35-ton bricks and delivered as baseload power for less than the cost of...
Los Angeles County to go carbon neutral by 2050
Los Angeles County, with 10.1 million residents, is the nation's largest non-state government entity and is larger than all but 10...
The New York Times has dropped its sponsorship of an oil conference in London next month
The New York Times has dropped its sponsorship of an oil conference in London next month following pressure from climate activists....
Australia hits 2020 large-scale renewables target
The Clean Energy Regulator of Australia has approved enough capacity to guarantee that the large-scale Renewable Energy Target of 33,000...
Glasgow sets a target of carbon neutrality for 2030 – seven years ahead of the previous 2037 target
Glasgow’s Climate Emergency Working Group has delivered a report with over sixty recommendations that it considers provides a pathway to...
Pakistan plans renewables for 20% of energy supplies by 2025
Pakistan will build wind and solar plants to reduce reliance on gas and fuel imports and ease the burden on its grid. Pakistan is...
Scientists commemorate first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change
A bronze plaque, which carries ‘a letter to the future’ says all of Iceland’s glaciers are expected to follow the same path in the next...
Virgin Media confirms it sourced 100 per cent renewable power in the UK and Ireland last year
Virgin Media dials up 100 per cent renewables goal Media giant signs up to RE100 initiative, after confirming it sourced 100 per cent...
191 companies have now joined RE100 initiative and made a commitment to 100% renewable electricity.
Going 100% Requirements of RE100 companies Companies joining RE100 make a global, public commitment to 100% renewable electricity. To...
Berkeley, California bans: straws, plastic bags — and now gas pipelines too
Environmentalists have cheered “valve turners” who illegally cut off oil and gas flows through pipelines. Now their political allies are...
Cooper’s Gap wind farm in Queensland, biggest in Australia will be finished end 2019
The wind farm, located between Dalby and Kingaroy in the Darling Downs region to the north-west of Brisbane, began generating in June,...
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