The IEA’s Energy Efficiency 2024 report was published this week, just before COP29. Energy intensity improvements have decreased in the past year, even though nearly 200 countries agreed at COP28 to the goal of doubling the rate of progress, which would mean increasing intensity from 2% in 2022 to 4% by 2030. Yet, the IEA … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, November 10, 2024
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Initial views on new Trump administration’s impact on climate policies
In an article on The Conversation website, Gautam Jain, Senior Research Scholar in Financing the Energy Transition, Columbia University discusses the impact on climate policy of the incoming Trump administration. What Trump can do to reverse US climate policy − and what he probably can’t change As the U.S. prepares for another Trump administration, … Continue reading Initial views on new Trump administration’s impact on climate policies
Energy in Demand, November 3, 2024
A piece of good news about electric vehicles. In Florida, EVs exhibited an unexpected side benefit during Hurricane Milton, according to Energy Changemakers (behind a paywall). Before Milton made landfall on October 9, Florida resident Paul Fosse reported in CleanTechnica that public charging stations were readily available to EV drivers in the days preceding Milton, even … Continue reading Energy in Demand, November 3, 2024
Energy in Demand News, October 27, 2024
The annual UNEP Emissions Gap Report (EGR), published this week ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP), highlights that without accelerated global action, the world is on track for temperature increases between 2.6°C and 3.1°C by the end of the century. Even the best-case scenario of 2.6°C will bring severe consequences for people, the … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, October 27, 2024
Energy in Demand News, October 21, 2024
The energy transition could proceed more quickly than large US oil producers were hoping, with growing pressure to decommission assets sooner than they expected, a Financial Times newsletter (behind a paywall) reported this week. “In any scenario, they’ll eventually need to pay big clean-up costs around the retirement of each individual fossil fuel site. In … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, October 21, 2024
Pace of decarbonisation of world GDP Is still far too slow
An article on the Fitches Rates website raises concerns that decarbonisation is simply too slow. Fitches Ratings Inc. is an American credit rating agency and one of the “Big Three credit rating agencies:, the other two being Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s. How do we get this message across to countries and leaders who want … Continue reading Pace of decarbonisation of world GDP Is still far too slow
Clean energy technologies save households serious money, but the barrier to entry increased in 2024
With the cost of living top of mind for Canadians, a new Clean Energy Canada report finds that making a few clean energy changes to your household can save hundreds of dollars a month for families. The report is discussed in a news item on the Energy Mix website. EVs, Energy Efficiency Save Canadians … Continue reading Clean energy technologies save households serious money, but the barrier to entry increased in 2024
AI will greatly improve energy efficiency
There has been much talk of the massive amount of energy likely to be used by data centres and artificial intelligence, but could there be another side of the story? Asks Andrew Warren, Chair of the British Energy Efficiency Federation, in an article in the October issue of Energy in Buildings & Industry. Is … Continue reading AI will greatly improve energy efficiency
“One limit after the other will be broken unless we manage to strand the necessary fossil assets and curtail opportunities for continuing to profit from oil and gas and coal”
In an article on The Conversation website, Jack Marley, Environment + Energy Editor, UK edition of The Conversation website discusses the dilemma all of us are facing in this energy transition. Fix the climate or appease the fossil fuel industry – we can’t do both Britain ended more than 140 years of coal power … Continue reading “One limit after the other will be broken unless we manage to strand the necessary fossil assets and curtail opportunities for continuing to profit from oil and gas and coal”
New EEA report on Europe’s transport sector’s transition towards sustainability
The EU is making progress towards climate neutrality but reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from transport are relatively stagnant. According to a report by the European Environment Agency (EEA), published recently, the transport sector’s transition towards sustainability is made difficult by the increasing transport demand and sluggish growth in sustainable transport modes for moving both … Continue reading New EEA report on Europe’s transport sector’s transition towards sustainability
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