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 →

New IN-PLAN Practice to empower local and regional authorities to revolutionise their sustainable energy, climate, and spatial planning

The IN-PLAN project team this week has launched IN-PLAN Practice, an innovative and long-lasting support structure designed to assist local and regional authorities across Europe in effectively implementing their sustainable energy, climate, and spatial plans. Developed as part of a collaborative effort co-funded by the LIFE programme of the European Union, the IN-PLAN Practice aims … Continue reading New IN-PLAN Practice to empower local and regional authorities to revolutionise their sustainable energy, climate, and spatial planning →

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 →

SDGs are increasingly being used to reinforce existing practices, rather than genuinely addressing societal issues

In an article on The Conversation website, Felix Arndt, John F. Wood Chair in Entrepreneurship, University of Guelph and Christiaan Röell, Lecturer, UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney discuss how businesses can easily misuse SDGs as a mere signal of good intention without needing to take them seriously. Businesses are leveraging the UN Sustainable Development … Continue reading SDGs are increasingly being used to reinforce existing practices, rather than genuinely addressing societal issues →

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 →

IPCC authors were asked to share their best guesses about where the world is headed

In an article on The Conversation website, Seth Wynes, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo and H. Damon Matthews, Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University discuss a survey they recently undertook to ask IPCC climate experts their views on how they saw current efforts … Continue reading IPCC authors were asked to share their best guesses about where the world is headed →

Energy in Demand News, October 13, 2024

Florida has just experienced two of the most devastating hurricanes in history. The Heated newsletter (available on Substack) reports: :For at least 45 years, oil company scientists have been privately warning executives that burning fossil fuels would lead to catastrophic storms. Their startlingly accurate warnings are detailed in internal documents and publicly-released films obtained by … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, October 13, 2024 →

Energy in Demand News, October 6, 2024

Congratulations to the UK to finally bid farewell to the power of King Coal with the closing of its last coal-fired power plant. Britain opened the world’s first coal-burning power plant in 1882 (built by Thomas Edison) and now has become the first major country to end coal-fired power. Renewables’ share of UK electricity jumped … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, October 6, 2024 →

Report from the ENERGYNOW SDG7 Action Forum 2024

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) published the report of the ENERGYNOW SDG7 Action Forum 2024 that was held in New York, September 25-27. The first ENERGYNOW SDG7 Action Forum convened in September 2022, bringing together a range of stakeholders to focus on ways to accelerate energy access and the energy transition. Below is … Continue reading Report from the ENERGYNOW SDG7 Action Forum 2024 →

Energy in Demand News, September 29, 2024

Six weeks before COP29, the UN climate summit, the Climate Action Tracker rates host Azerbaijan’s climate action “critically insufficient.” The report came out during New York climate week, held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The Climate Action Tracker assesses national climate plans and it said that Azerbaijan was one of the few … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, September 29, 2024 →