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China Three Gorges starts work on 1.7 GW pumped storage station

Renewable Energy World

CTG is a clean energy group focusing on large-scale hydropower development and operation. Renewable clean energy accounts for 97% of the total mix, while consolidated hydropower capacity represents 16% of the total installed capacity of hydro in China.

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The COP28 pledge to triple up by 2030 and implications for geothermal

ThinkGeoEnergy

China has long led the way in geothermal heating and cooling and will likely continue to do so, but there are hundreds of geothermal heating and cooling projects being developed in parallel and at different levels of scale all over Europe , North America , and South America.

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Environmental Activists Fight Back as Companies Resort to ‘Lawfare’ to Quash Criticism 

DeSmogBlog

When she returned in 2018, long after the war had ended, a journalist encouraged her to go into the hills and take a look at some new hydropower plants on the river Lumbardhi i Deçanit. An area called ‘Zalli i Rupes, where environmental campaigners say gravel was dug for the construction of hydropower plants further down the river.

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IRENA: Renewables accounted for three quarters of new power capacity in 2019

Business Green

The global renewable power sector added 176GW of new capacity in total last year - just fractionally down on the 179GW added in 2018 - as rapid growth in wind, solar, hydropower and other renewable power sources outpaced the fossil fuel sector by a factor of 2.6, according to IRENA. Overall, renewables capacity expanded by 7.6

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Global Briefing: EU Commission targets €20bn annual support for nature restoration

Business Green

The strategy - aimed at tackling and adapting to climate change and halting the decline of plant and animal species - sets out a 10-year vision which it estimates could provide multi-billion euro benefits to Europe's economy and support hundreds of thousands of jobs. Rwanda ramps up Paris Agreement pledge.

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IRENA: Global renewables capacity grows a record 9.6 per cent

Business Green

The performance was driven by significant growth in Asia where 141GW of new capacity was added in China alone, helping to take Asia's total renewables capacity to 1.63TW of capacity. Moreover, Oceania saw 5.2GW of new capacity come online and South America continued an upward trend with 18.2GW of capacity added.

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The Future(s) of Fossil Fuels - 2020

Mr. Sustainability

The second camp sees a growing role for fossil fuels as the global population expands and hundreds of millions of people seek to join the energy-intensive middle classes, especially in Asia and Africa. One example of a company already leading the charge is Chemport Europe. Camp 1 – No, Oil will not recover.