Turning our backs on the world
Our political leaders are facing firmly inward at a time when a multiplicity of problems require a global solution.
Click here for full storyThe policy agenda on climate change of the two major parties is dominated by two disturbing trends. The Coalition has become more resolute in its refusal to consider a carbon price and the ALP has outsourced policy leadership to consensus builders within a citizen's assembly.
Click here for full storyFewer Australians believe that humans are responsible for climate change, but despite this, the market for environmentally friendly products such as LED bulbs is growing and manufacturers are releasing increasingly innovative and eco-friendly products.
Click here for full storyThere’s been a lot of talk lately about energy efficiency. There have been various manifestations of new meter programs around our states and, most recently, federal proposals for “energy efficiency certificates” as a new program to drive behaviours to reduce electricity demand.
Click here for full storyMAJOR industry players have warned that uncertainty over greenhouse gas reduction policy is undermining long-term wholesale supplies.
Click here for full storyThe European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 65 million to Transelectrica SA to support its medium-term investment programme, which involves modernising and retro-fitting seven high-voltage substations in Romania’s power transmission grid
Click here for full storyEver since Don Quixote tilted at wind mills, warfare and renewable energy have had a rough relationship. It's tough to erect wind turbines or solar panels when the enemy keeps blowing things up.
Click here for full storySecretary Steven Chu announced today that the Department of Energy is extending the application deadline for the July 2009 energy efficiency, renewable energy and advanced transmission and distribution technologies solicitation.
Click here for full storySuntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world's leading producer of crystalline silicon solar panels, has been selected to supply 34.5MW of solar panels for the first phase of the largest solar power plant in Thailand and Southeast Asia.
Click here for full storyKenyan conservation groups are opposing the biofuels project of an Italian businessman, saying the proposal to produce energy from jatropha may cause environmental damage.
Click here for full storyDenmark is a windy place. Windy enough to provide 20 percent of the country’s power generation from both onshore and offshore wind farms. As growth in wind power continues, the problem of large-scale energy storage from wind becomes an increasing challenge.
Click here for full storyGermany is expecting to get 20 percent of its total energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020 -- which would double its current share within 10 years.
Click here for full storyWE all know both Labor and the Coalition have jettisoned plans to implement an emissions trading scheme to tame climate change. But Australia is not alone in failing to put a price on carbon. Global warming fatigue is setting in all over the world.
Click here for full storyA poll has found climate change is a big issue in voters' minds, as Labor hastily reassesses its climate policy before election day.
Click here for full storyAustralia is pushing for an ambitious global climate deal at a summit in Germany - an outcome that would increase pressure to sort out domestic climate policy.
Click here for full storyInternational Green Energy Expo Korea 2010 was chosen as the venue where SunPods SP-300 was first displayed. This is the first factory built-to-order solar-powered integrated electric-vehicle charging station – ready for powering up immediately. This ready-to-use solar power platform from SunPods is called EV Plug-N-Go.
Click here for full storyAn Australian climate change research group says the Hunter Valley is well placed to manufacture base-load solar thermal power.
Click here for full storyWhile fossil fuel companies in the U.S. are busily wrecking vast sections of the country’s natural heritage, a new energy resource has been quietly emerging from an unlikely source: parking lots. More parking lots are being converted into solar energy farms that create clean, renewable power while also creating more green jobs in solar cell manufacturing, installation, and sales.
Click here for full storyThe US Department of Energy has offered a $17 million conditional loan guarantee to support a 20-megawatt energy storage project in New York State.
Click here for full storyIn Spain, even the rising industry of renewable energy is not immune to the realities of the country’s sizable debt and broader economic woes. Just last month, the Spanish government slashed subsidies for any new wind or solar thermal projects in the country.
Click here for full storyMy NRDC colleague, Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, writes here: "What is going on with Big Oil this year? The Gulf. Spills in Minnesota and Salt Lake City. And now, very bad news from Michigan, where crews are cleaning up after yet another major oil infrastructure failure.
Click here for full storyAccording to the data, during the year 2008 and 2009 the total electric power produced from renewable energy sources increased by 20% from 5.6% to 6.7%. The wind energy has made a record growth of 31% during the period and currently represents nearly 2.5% of the total electric power produced during the period in the UK.
Click here for full storyDespite repeated pledges to phase out fossil fuel subsidies and criticism from some quarters that UK government support for renewable energy technologies is too generous, global subsidies provided to renewable energy and biofuels are dwarfed by those enjoyed by the fossil fuel industry.
Click here for full storyEnergy from wood, corn and plants has the potential to replace as much as a fifth of Germany’s oil consumption within a decade, according to a study by a renewable energy lobby group.
Click here for full storyChina's energy use has more than doubled over the last decade to overtake the United States as the word's biggest user, according to preliminary data from the International Energy Agency. As the data from the IEA shows, China has gone from using 1,107 million tons of oil equivalent (Mtoe) in 2000, to 2,131 Mtoe in 2008 and is estimated to have consumed 2,265 Mtoe in 2009.
Click here for full storyOcean Power Technologies, Inc. has signed a groundbreaking Settlement Agreement with 11 federal and state agencies and three non-governmental stakeholders for its utility-scale wave power project at Reedsport, Oregon. This agreement represents a major step towards the grant of the first license ever issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a commercial-scale wave power project in the US.
Click here for full storyIncreasingly affluent and energy-hungry nation reflects the dramatic increase in the wattage of China's economy.
Click here for full storyUNCERTAINTY on carbon policy has resulted in debt held against one of the country's most emissions-intensive power stations, Loy Yang B in Victoria, being downgraded to one step above junk status.
Click here for full storyTHE climate change morass, with the two major political parties refusing to tackle the issue, will hurt business and the economy. And business is beginning to demand more than an ad hoc approach that will lead to market failures.
Click here for full storyThe time has come for society to face up to the true cost of our energy consumption, says Barry Brook. By 2030, nuclear may be leading the march.
Click here for full storyAustralian businesses spent $75.4 billion on energy during 2008-09, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Click here for full storyThe Alternative Technology Association (ATA) applauded the Victorian Government’s release of its Climate Change White Paper. “This White Paper sets a new climate change policy and action benchmark for Governments in this country,” said the ATA’s Chief Executive Officer Ian Porter.
Click here for full storyLEADERS at the Pacific Islands Forum will work to make the most of a windfall expected from a $US100 billion ($110 billion) ''climate aid'' fund agreed at climate change talks in Copenhagen.
Click here for full storyCouncils in the UK should do "absolutely nothing" to tackle climate change unless a stringent global deal on reducing carbon emissions is reached through the United Nations, which includes developing as well as developed countries – according to Lord Lawson, writes Dean Carroll.
Click here for full storySwedish Environment Minister lays out his county's approach to climate change negotiations and argues a collaborative approach would put pressure on US and China to agree to a legally binding global climate agreement.
Click here for full storySiemens will help a Florida power generator capture the carbon dioxide emissions from a coal-fired power plant on Tampa Bay. The pilot test seeks to demonstrate Siemen's Postcap technology, which absorbs CO2 with an amino acid salt formulation.
Click here for full storyA new Australian green investment fund was launched yesterday, amid claims it is the first climate-change advocacy fund in the world. Green funds typically work by investing only in renewable energies or companies which maintain high ethical standards with regard to environmental issues, but the joint venture between Australian Ethical Investments and the Climate Institute will take a different approach.
Click here for full storyA HIGH-TECH company has called for a less draconian, more flexible approach to ''greening'' old buildings to encourage small business to spend money on refurbishments.
Click here for full storyConcerted political and regulatory support by governments around the world, and the financial incentives that they provide for innovation, are seen as crucial factors in the continuing growth of the cleantech sector.
Click here for full storyPrivate equity firms want to invest in the cleantech sector but are holding back because a lack of regulatory control and government financial incentives makes it too risky, according to research released Friday.
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