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February 21, 2017
Despite the criticism levelled at South Australia over its renewable energy ambitions, the state is nevertheless aiming to be carbon neutral by mid-century, which will mean moving to 100% renewable electricity over the next 15-20...[more]
Category: Australia - News
September 30, 2015
Despite being major centres, it is not a given that decisions made in New York and Paris reverberate in villages in Bangladesh, in boardrooms in Bogota and in the city hall of Vancouver. But that’s exactly what needs to happen...[more]
Category: Africa - News, Asia - News, North America - News, Europe - News, South Pacific Ocean - News, South America - News
September 21, 2015
Greenpeace’s Energy [R]evolution scenario 2015 phases out coal, oil, gas and nuclear energy as fast as technically and economically possible, by expanding the renewable energy share to 42 per cent in 2030, 72 per cent in 2040 and...[more]
Category: North America - News, Australia - News, Europe - News, Africa - News, Asia - News
July 20, 2015
The World Nuclear Industry Reports Half Of The World Gets More Power From Renewable Energy Over Nuclear Power
Back in the 1950s, scientists discovered that energy can be generated from splitting atoms. This reaction was known...[more]
Category: Europe - News, Africa - News, Asia - News, North America - News, Australia - News
June 18, 2015
Renewable Energy’s Record Year Helps Uncouple Growth of Global Economy and CO2
Read the Renewables 2015 Global Status Report
Record installations for wind and solar PV in 2014;164 countries with...[more]
Category: Europe - News, Australia - News, North America - News, South America - News, Africa - News, Asia - News
January 15, 2015
Scientists have been fairly unequivocal in their warnings that we must ditch fossil fuels entirely if we are to have any hope of reversing climate change. Yet despite significant progress in the last year, historic announcements...[more]
Category: Europe - News, North America - News, Australia - News
November 5, 2014
It seems that it is not just towns in New South Wales that are looking to meet all their own electricity needs with renewable energy – a small township in Victoria is also looking to become 100% renewable within a decade.
The...[more]
Category: Australia - News
November 3, 2014
China, Brazil and South Africa show wide diversity of clean energy investment opportunities
London, Washington D.C., 28 October 2014 – Developing nations represent a large and rapidly growing share of the world’s clean energy...[more]
Category: Europe - News, Africa - News, Asia - News, South America - News, North America - News, Australia - News
October 30, 2014
Five towns in NSW have put their hands up to become the first zero net energy town (ZNET) in the state – and indeed the country.
The New England towns of Walcha, Manilla, Tenterfield, Uralla and Bingara all made...[more]
Category: Australia - News
October 8, 2014
There have been several instances in recent months when wind energy has accounted for all, or nearly all, electricity demand in South Australia. Last Tuesday, however, set a new benchmark – the combination of wind energy and...[more]
Category: Australia - News
September 12, 2014
The transition to a global renewable energy economy could save $71 trillion by the year 2050, according to an IEA report.
Or, to say that another way, $44 trillion in investment by the year 2050 would translate to about...[more]
Category: Australia - News, North America - News, South America - News, Europe - News, Africa - News, Asia - News
September 10, 2014
We are honored to join the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) in announcing the release of the WECAN Women's Climate and Action Agenda. Drafted with initial input from more than 100 international women...[more]
Category: North America - News, Australia - News, Africa - News, Europe - News, Asia - News
July 29, 2014
In a recent article on The Conversation, University of Melbourne Professor Emeritus Frank Larkins wrote that Australia’s targets to increase renewable energy will make electricity more expensive, thanks to problems with...[more]
Category: Australia - News
July 2, 2014
Following up on its recent 2014 forum on the 100% renewable energy island of El Hierro off the coast of Spain, RENISLA, a project of UNESCO, has issued a call for action to expand the worldwide campaign for the transition to...[more]
Category: Europe - News, Africa - News, North America - News, Australia - News, Asia - News
May 21, 2014
Lismore City Council has set a 100 per cent renewable energy target, aiming to make is council electricity demands self sufficient via renewable energy sources within 10 years.
The council announced on its web-site this week...[more]
Category: Australia - News
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