By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network
A significant threshold has been crossed by renewable energy as analysts report that the sectorʼs size last year reached double the level it was at just 10 years earlier.
By Energy Crunch staff, New Economics Foundation
Reports this week provided yet more evidence of vitality in green energy.Investment in renewables surged 17% last year.
By Energy Crunch staff, New Economics Foundation
2014: the year we turned the corner on CO2 emissions?
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
Should the research community be exempted from the emission reduction targets applied elsewhere?
By Energy Crunch staff, New Economics Foundation
Will 2015 prove to be a tipping point in the journey to a zero carbon energy system?
By Justin Ritchie, Seth Moser-Katz, The Extraenvironmentalist
I believe we’re at a point where renewables are going to continue becoming more affordable while fossil fuels continue to get more expensive, and more risky.
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
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By Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360
In its latest report, the IPCC makes a strong case for a sharp increase in low-carbon energy production, especially solar and wind, and provides hope that this transformation can occur in time to hold off the worst impacts of global warming.
By Kevin Anderson, kevinanderson.info
Shale gas is indisputably a high-carbon energy source.
By Jennie C. Stephens, Wiley Online Library
Government investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a large and expensive fossil-fuel subsidy with a low probability of eventual societal benefit.
By Energy Crunch staff, New Economics Foundation
Weakening the UK’s Fourth Carbon Budget has no legal basis and would be economically damaging.
By Amy Huva, Read the Science
Is it feasible to have zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050? Yes!