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2016 carbon emissions remained at 2014 and 2015 levels, despite economic growth

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Mar 17, 2017
Environment, Science
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), carbon dioxide emissions from energy production have remained steady for three years in a row, even during a period of growth in the global economy. C02 emiss...

UN climate chief calls momentum to address climate change “unstoppable”

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Mar 1, 2017
Environment, Policy, Science
President Donald Trump has given environmentalists much cause for concern. He has stated his intention to withdraw the United States from the UN’s climate talks, and to revoke U.S. funding for the UN’s clean en...

Renewables industry makes economic argument to stay afloat in Trump era

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Feb 12, 2017
Business, Environment, Policy, Science
The US renewable energy industry is arguing that it can offer rural areas an economic boost along with the coal industry, in the face of President Trump’s pro-coal agenda. Wind-farm developers and suppliers emp...

Tesla builds battery farm outside Los Angeles, will help replace problematic natural gas reservoir

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Feb 4, 2017
Business, Environment, Innovation, Science
Tesla has moved beyond the electric car market, creating a battery farm to store energy for the Southern California Edison power company – the largest it has ever built for a power company. The farm, located at...

Scotland sets ambitious goal of 50 percent renewable energy by 2030

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Jan 24, 2017
Environment, Policy, Science
Ministers in Scotland have unveiled plans to ensure that 50 percent of the nation’s energy needs are supplied by low or zero-carbon renewable sources, by 2030. The move represents a significant shift for the Sc...

Obama argues that policies addressing climate change are increasingly “irreversible”, in journal article

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Jan 9, 2017
Environment, Policy, Science
In an opinion article in the journal Science, Barack Obama made the case that the fight against carbon emissions and climate change is already irreversible. The piece is one of a number of articles the presiden...

Wind power eclipses coal as UK power source

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Jan 8, 2017
Environment, Science
For the first time, wind power has overtaken coal as a power source in the UK, according to analysts. The news comes after the closing of three major coal plants last year, which put coal generation at 9.2 perc...

First offshore wind farm in United States goes online off Rhode Island coast

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Dec 16, 2016
Environment, Innovation, Science
In an important step forward ahead of Donald Trump’s looming inauguration in January, the first offshore wind farm in the United States began operation on Monday. The wind farm consists of five, 560-ft tall win...

Bill Gates announces billion-dollar clean energy investment fund

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Dec 12, 2016
Business, Environment, Headlines, Science
Bill Gates and other tech billionaires are investing in a billion-dollar clean energy fund to fight climate change. The new ‘Breakthrough Energy Ventures’ fund directors will include Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO...

Scientists discover breakthrough method to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol fuel

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Oct 22, 2016
Environment, Innovation, Science
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee have inadvertently discovered a way to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol, which can be used as fuel. This new method...
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