Global leaders will gather in New York next week for the UN Summit of the Future, the centrepiece of this year’s launch of the annual United Nations General Assembly. UN Secretary General, António Guterres, will try to persuade world leaders to extend their horizons beyond current wars by adopting a “Pact for the Future,” an … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, September 22, 2024
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Learning lessons from Europe and elsewhere for Australia to fast-track renewables deployment
Anne Kallies, Senior Lecturer in Energy Law, RMIT University writes about the lessons that Australia should learn from experience in the EU, the United States and China as it takes the steps forward to deploy renewables at scale. If Australia wants to fast-track 100% renewables, it must learn from Europe’s risky path Even after … Continue reading Learning lessons from Europe and elsewhere for Australia to fast-track renewables deployment
European Commission unveils State of the Energy Union Report 2024
This week, the Commission has published the State of the Energy Union Report 2024 which describes how the EU has managed unprecedented challenges in the energy policy landscape during this Commission's mandate, equipping the EU with a regulatory framework for pursuing the clean energy transition and laying the foundations for renewed economic growth and competitiveness. … Continue reading European Commission unveils State of the Energy Union Report 2024
The need to engage and educate home occupiers about how to live in a more complex and gas-free home of the future
Mike Leonard, Visiting Professor, Manufacturing and the Built Environment, Birmingham City University writes on The Conversation website about the human dimension when it comes to achieve net zero for homes. What are your views? Making homes ready for net zero depends heavily on people’s understanding and habits Forty percent of UK greenhouse gas emissions … Continue reading The need to engage and educate home occupiers about how to live in a more complex and gas-free home of the future
It would make sense for the new UK government to implement at pace all the initiatives under the EU’s new energy performance in buildings directive which our European competitors are now adopting with enthusiasm
In April the Official Journal of the European Union published the full details of the fourth iteration of the bloc’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). In this blog originally on the website of the Institute for European Environmental Policy UK, Andrew Warren, chair of the British Energy Efficiency Federation explores the significance of this … Continue reading It would make sense for the new UK government to implement at pace all the initiatives under the EU’s new energy performance in buildings directive which our European competitors are now adopting with enthusiasm
Our energy and climate transition: au revoir Paris
In an excellent article on The Conversation website, James Dyke, Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter; Robert Watson, Emeritus Professor in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia; Wolfgang Knorr, Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University warn us that the time has come for us to leap. The … Continue reading Our energy and climate transition: au revoir Paris
It will be no simple task for farmers and the food sector to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050
In an article on Canada’s National Newswatch website, Alex Binkley discusses the challenges that Canada’s agrifood sector has in achieving net zero. No doubt this will be a similar problem in most countries. Achieving net zero emissions no simple task for agrifood sector It will be no simple task for farmers and the food … Continue reading It will be no simple task for farmers and the food sector to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050
Climate friendly Paris Olympic Games focused on low carbon, repurposed construction
Ciaran Varley and Dave Lockwood write on the Guardian website how the Paris Olympics are doing their best to be the greenest ever. EiD did an earlier post on the Paris Olympics in April that gives more background. Recycled bottle tops and tables made from shuttlecocks - the greenest Olympics? The organising committee of … Continue reading Climate friendly Paris Olympic Games focused on low carbon, repurposed construction
Energy in Demand News, July 14, 2024
Despite growing at an unprecedented rate last year, renewable energy sources are still not being deployed quickly enough to put the world on track to meet an international goal of tripling renewables by 2030, new data shows. According to figures published on Thursday by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), renewables are the fastest-growing source … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, July 14, 2024
“I think the challenge for new nuclear is that it is just expensive”
The Chairman of the Energy Transitions Commission says hydrogen or gas power with carbon capture and storage could help to keep the lights on but nuclear is simply too expensive. Writing in the Times website, Emma Powell discusses the views of Lord Turner, chairman of the Energy Transitions Commission, on the priority now being given … Continue reading “I think the challenge for new nuclear is that it is just expensive”
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