China’s power outages and its double carbon target 3060
Although China is an electricity generation powerhouse, it does experience power shortages from time to time. The most recent power outage happened last summer, resulting…
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Hundreds of planned coal mines ‘incompatible with 1.5C target’
Proposals to build hundreds of new coal mines could raise global output of the fossil fuel by 30%, putting the world’s climate goals or up…
The role of China’s carbon price in phasing out coal
After years of negotiations, planning, and pilot testing, China’s national carbon emissions trading system (ETS) finally went online at the Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange…
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Europe vies with China for clean hydrogen superpower status
The rivalry between Europe and China in emission-free hydrogen technologies could become one of the defining business stories in the global effort to stop climate…
Greening China’s overseas energy projects
New database from Boston University’s Global Policy Center shows the biggest share of Chinese global power investment going into coal but renewables projects on the…
Energy’s lost weekend
The coronavirus pandemic is first and foremost a health crisis, but it will have long-lasting effects on most areas of the global economy, not least…
Renewable energy could power the world by 2050
Wind, water and solar sources − the renewable energy trio − could meet almost all the needs of our power-hungry society in 30 years. LONDON,…
Analysis: Coronavirus has temporarily reduced China’s CO2 emissions by a quarter
Electricity demand and industrial output remain far below their usual levels across a range of indicators, many of which are at their lowest two-week average…
Change before we have to
This time it is not business as usual. Empty streets, no people, no cars, clear blue skies, producing less, consuming less, reinventing habits, schedule and…
Rising demand for air conditioning could make climate change even worse
But a new $1 million prize could boost climate-friendly AC technology. Between 1992 and 2016, more than 22,000 people in India died as a result…
An introduction to the state of wind power in the U.S.
Rural and often conservative states are leading the way in harnessing the wind. Advances in technology, improved economics, and broad political support are making wind…
Analysis: global plastics boom fueled 2018 CO2 emissions rise
The world added more non-fossil power last year than ever before, but energy demand rose by even more. Last year’s rise in global CO2 emissions…
China’s power industry calls for hundreds of new coal power plants by 2030
Under the proposal, the country could add a large coal power plant every 2 weeks for the next 12 years The largest power producers in…
China’s CO2 emissions surged in 2018 despite clean energy gains
China’s CO2 emissions grew by approximately 3% last year, the largest rise since at least 2013, and all but ensuring global CO2 emissions also increased last year,…
How to make the liquefied natural gas industry more sustainable
The recently announced $40 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in northern British Columbia represents the single largest private sector investment in Canadian history. And…