Archive for June 2019
Terawatt-scale solar ‘will reshape the global energy market’
Solar energy could upend the global energy market and become a key energy source of the future.
Arctic port development raises questions of sustainability
The Arctic has been largely inaccessible for commercial shipping and resource exploitation, but with the ice-shelf slowly receding, not only countries are preparing to benefit economically from the region’s hidden treasures – but international firms too. One of the world’s
British business group advocates for a diversified energy mix to hit net zero carbon target
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the UK’s largest business group, wrote to business secretary Greg Clark this week urging the UK to continue building both large-scale nuclear plants and smaller modular reactors in order to help combat the climate
Australia is considering its low-carbon energy options
In moving away from coal, energy experts argue, Australia should diversify its low-carbon portfolio.
Study: conversation means conservation
Conserving biodiversity requires a common vision and without it we are more likely to fail.
UN expert: We’re facing an impending ‘climate apartheid’
"Hundreds of millions will face food insecurity, forced migration, disease, and death," the author of a UN report argues.