Barry Barton, Professor of Law, University of Waikato, writing on The Conversation website, discusses the government’s recently released energy package that assumes fossil fuels are the only answer, and how little it connects with important reforms already underway. He argues that the proven merits of renewables and the work already underway to grow their contribution … Continue reading New Zealand’s energy transition: isn’t there a role for renewables?
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World’s largest oil, gas companies involved in under 1.5 % renewable energy projects
Despite public promises by many fossil fuel firms that they are investing in the green transition, it turns out that they have made little contribution to the growth of renewable energy. In an article on the New Scientist website, Chris Stokel-Walker discusses how leading oil and gas companies have investment in renewables. Top 250 … Continue reading World’s largest oil, gas companies involved in under 1.5 % renewable energy projects
Yes, renewables overtake coal as world’s biggest source of electricity but look at where the greatest growth is
In an article on The Conversation website, Reihana Mohideen, Principal Advisor, Just Energy Transition and Health, Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne discusses the good news that renewable energy overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity in the first half of this year but analyses which countries area making great … Continue reading Yes, renewables overtake coal as world’s biggest source of electricity but look at where the greatest growth is
Energy in Demand News, October 5-6, 2025
Extreme weather and climate change caused more financial damage in Europe between 2020 and 2023 than it did in the whole preceding decade, the Financial Times reports. “The average annual economic losses in the EU associated with increasingly intense heat, floods and other extreme weather amounted to €44.5bn between 2020 and 2023, two and a … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, October 5-6, 2025
Another business-led effort from the financial sector to fight climate change is unraveling
In an article on The Conversation website, David L Levy, Professor Emeritus of Management, UMass Boston and Rami Kaplan, Senior Lecturer of Sociology and Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University discuss how net-zero alliances in the financial sector never made much business sense and were not particularly effective at fighting climate change. Do you agree? … Continue reading Another business-led effort from the financial sector to fight climate change is unraveling
Energy in Demand News, September 28-29, 2025
Trump to World: Green Energy Is a Scam and Climate Science Is From ‘Stupid People’ That was quite a headline for the New York Times account of President Trump berating everyone at the UN General Assembly this week… everyone who fell for “the greatest con job ever perpetrated”, the carbon footprint “hoax” and the “green … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, September 28-29, 2025
Energy in Demand News, September 21-22, 2025
An EU directive, known as the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, approved in 2024 is causing problems for American oil companies. The New York Times reports that the Executive Director of Exxon, Darren Woods, is now urging Europe to rescind this directive which makes companies track climate pollution. Woods called the EU regulations one part … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, September 21-22, 2025
Where is the “abundant energy” Trump promised?
Carolyn Fortuna writes on the cleantechnica website about the energy transition in the United States and that Trump supporters have found one more way to marginalise renewable energy. Trump Promised Abundant Energy But Has Only Delivered Deficits On a visit to Italy this week, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a former gas executive, took pains … Continue reading Where is the “abundant energy” Trump promised?
Why would oil companies invest in clean energy at all, especially at a time when many federal clean energy incentives are being eliminated and climate science is being dismantled, at least in the United States?
In an article on The Conversation website, Michael Oxman, Professor of the Practice of Sustainable Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, asks a fundamental question concerning major oil companies? What are your views? Why do big oil companies invest in green energy? Some major oil companies such as Shell and BP that once were touted … Continue reading Why would oil companies invest in clean energy at all, especially at a time when many federal clean energy incentives are being eliminated and climate science is being dismantled, at least in the United States?
Energy in Demand News, September 14-15, 2025
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moved on Friday to stop requiring thousands of polluting facilities to report the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that they release into the air, reports New York Times. The EPA proposal “would end requirements for thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities across … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, September 14-15, 2025
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