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Articles Nuclear

Back in 2009, Simon Irish, an investment manager in New York, found the kind of opportunity that he thought could transform the world while — in the process — transforming dollars into riches. Irish saw that countries around the globe…

Articles Policy & Strategy

Better data would help crack the drought insurance problem

While drought policy raises many complex emotional, political and policy issues, it can be helpful to think of it as an insurance problem: how can we best help farmers manage climate risk? Drought insurance has been a long-standing goal and…

Articles Climate Change

Analysis: fossil-fuel emissions in 2018 increasing at fastest rate for seven years

Hopes that global CO2 emissions might be nearing a peak have been dashed by preliminary data showing that output from fossil fuels and industry will grow by around 2.7% in 2018, the largest increase in seven years. The new data, from…

Articles Climate Change Policy & Strategy

Is clean energy funding from the UN’s green climate fund and other sources going where it’s needed most?

Most of rural Africa still has no electricity, and tens of millions of families must cook on open fires and light their homes with candles or a kerosene lamps. But change is coming, at least in several hundred villages in…

Articles Biofuels Green Tech

From fiery ice to sustainable aviation: the biofuel race becomes creative

The search for alternative fuels struck lucky off the coast of Japan recently. Under the water and below the seabed are pockets of methane, trapped in ice. Put a match to this ice back on dry land and it not…

Articles Vanishing Point

Porto Flavia: where wilderness meets design

“This is not a coal mine but a sea harbour,” this is how the Sardinian Geopark guides typically introduce Porto Flavia to tourists and visitors. The site has so many virtues and strong points that there is no need to…

Advanced Tech Articles

Cyber-crime is smarter than energy

With the proliferation of smart grids, smart meters, “digital coal mine” and “digital oil fields,” the global energy sector is becoming increasingly interconnected, automated and digitalised. Cybersecurity has become a critical strategic priority to succeed in the digital transformation of…

Articles Nature & Environment

Plastic is here, there and everywhere

It had to happen sooner or later: the ocean contains plastic, the fish contain plastic, and now the plastic also arrives in the water we drink, in cooking salt, in our bodies. Plastic is everywhere. Most of it ends up…

Articles CCS

…From little acorns grow

Despite over ten years of trying, and numerous political initiatives at the national and EU level, carbon capture and storage (CCS) has yet to take off in Europe. This failure has variously been blamed on high costs, changeable political backing,…

Articles Last Exit

São Domingos

The São Domingos Mine is an abandoned open-pit mine in Alentejo’s Corte do Pinto, the first place in Portugal to have electric lighting. The Romans mined in the São Domingos area for gold and silver for about four centuries, and mining stopped in AD 439 when…