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'How to withstand Russia's energy blackmail': IEA warns further clean energy measures 'vital' to closing gas supply gap in 2023

Business Green

Additional €100bn for renewables, heat pumps, energy efficiency, and biomethane needed as EU faces 'sterner' gas supply test next year, IEA warns. The additional €100bn the IEA said is required to bolster Europe's clean, efficiency energy sources in 2023 amounts to less than a third of that mobilised by EU member states so far this year.

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Global briefing: EPA suspends environmental law enforcement in response to pandemic

Business Green

The EPA said it would not "seek penalties for noncompliance with routine monitoring and reporting obligations" during the suspension. This will help keep jobs in Europe, curb pollution and boost the competitiveness of our car industry.". California to double 2030 clean energy goal, as New York closes its last coal plant.

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'Fundamental change': How write downs and bankruptcies are fuelling stranded asset fears

Business Green

As Ernest Hemmingway famously observed in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises bankruptcies happen two ways: "Gradually, then suddenly". Price and demand projections have been trimmed and there is a real sense that the clean energy transition that much of the industry has tip-toed around for the past decade could be about to accelerate.

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Is There Enough Biomass to Fuel the World? Part III

Mr. Sustainability

How to divert energy flows from fossil to renewable using electricity and biomass Summary - Up to 20% of our energy needs could be met by sustainably harvested biomass, in particular food and agricultural waste, as well as manure. In part II we learned that the world needs 435 TWh of energy per day. Or is there?

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China and the EU: Two More Reasons Why 2020 Will Be a Make or Break Year

Green Market Oracle

This year is also important from the perspective of a major shift away from dirty energy. China will also reevaluate its energy mix this year. In 2018, coal dipped under 60 percent of China's primary energy mix for the first time and there is reason to believe that coal consumption will come under increased scrutiny in 2020.

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How forestry conservation is sustaining both the climate and livelihoods in the Congo

Business Green

The forest is our home; when we leave the forest or if the forest dies, we shall die. The project of Wildlife Works' subsidiary ERA Congo in Mai Ndombe, which covers some 300,000 hectares and is home to about 180,000 people, is a good example. Health is like the sun that illuminates the entire village." - African proverb.