What is the environmental cost of producing media? Pietari Kaapa, Associate Professor in Media and Communications at the University of Warwick discusses this question in an important article on The Conversation website. It’s time to start thinking about our digital carbon footprint The media is at the forefront of generating awareness over environmental issues. … Continue reading
This week’s solar eclipse will mainly be in the United States but it provides an important opportunity to look at the bigger issues related to solar energy. Ephrat Livni writes about some of the issues on the Quartz website. The total solar eclipse is a test case for renewable energy in emergencies Like many, … Continue reading
Michael MacDonald from the Energy Performance Measurement Institute in the United States and a friend of EiD provides an important post reviewing the progress made in Europe since 2005. You should find this useful. Basic European Energy Performance, 2005–2015 The European Union (EU) has several energy performance goals, and they have changed some over … Continue reading
There is significant potential to improve the energy performance of commercial buildings and Abigail Dean of TH Real Estate writes on the investor Daily website about the important gains being made in Australia. Australia in the lead on energy efficiency Thanks to the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS), Australia is one of the … Continue reading
The PR news service has announced a new ENERGY STAR® programme in Canada on the markets.businessinsider website. Canada has promoted industrial energy efficiency since the oil crises in the 1970s and this is one more measure to help the sector improve its energy performance. New ENERGY STAR® for Industry Program to Improve Energy Efficiency … Continue reading
We are seeing new developments almost daily in energy markets. Julian Spector writes in The Guardian about a new microgrid developed for a social housing complex in Brooklyn. Have you seen similar efforts in other cities? Let us know. Brooklyn’s social housing microgrid rewrites relationships with utility companies Residents of a social housing complex … Continue reading
The SDG Knowledge Hub of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) provides the recent update on global developments in mitigation finance. Mitigation Finance Update: Wind and Solar Projects Receive Financing through Innovative Bonds, Partnerships and Government Offsets Recent developments in climate mitigation finance include national initiatives on offsets and research and development, new … Continue reading
The debate about the role of nuclear energy in our low carbon future is not going to cease. But MV Ramana, the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia provides a good article on The Conversation website about nuclear energy’s future … Continue reading
Alyssa Danigelis writes on the Energy Manager Today website about how some of the world’s largest companies are taking renewable energy more seriously this year. Have you found this to be the case? World’s Largest Companies Push Record Growth in Renewable Energy The largest companies in the world are jumping into renewable energy big-time … Continue reading
The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) supports decision-makers in designing and delivering climate compatible development. We do this by combining research, advisory services and knowledge management in support of locally owned and managed policy processes. CDKN is currently funded over seven-year period from March 2010 to April 2017 by the UK Department for International … Continue reading
