Nearly the entire island of Ta’u in American Samoa with solar power. SolarCity, the company that has recently been taken over by Tesla, developed a ...
Five solar projects to power Amazon cloud data centres
Amazon will construct five new solar power farms to help power AWS cloud data centres. They are expected to generate power of 580,000 megawatt hours per ...
Paris extends its resilience ambitions
Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, and Patrick Ollier, President of Paris Métropole, announced a collaboration on a shared approach to resilience at the Global ...
How did COP22, the climate summit in Morroco end?
The COP22 summit in Marrakesh, Morroco had the purpose of implementing the Paris Agreement on climate change. Despite considerable progress in the ...
Business models for social and environmental sustainability
Green Collect, a social enterprise based in Melborne, is one among many businesses that found new ways of operating sustainable. The goal of these ...
Burlington is the first American all-renewable-energy city
The city of Burlington, Vermont, has 42,000 residents who are all provided with power that comes from hydroelectric, a plant, four wind turbines and a ...
Carbon capture and storage – a way to tackle climate change?
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a mix of technologies that strip carbon dioxide from various industrial processes such as steel manufacturing or coal ...
China to become the next clean energy superpower?
After Donald Trump’s election as the future president, the US is about to be replaced by China in terms of the leadership role in the international ...
7000 are better at emission reduction than demanded
Cities produce around 75% of the global carbon emissions, but they’re leading the way in the global fight against climate change. According to the Paris ...
Reasonable to let indigenous people control their own land
Plans to cut carbon emissions also include vast sparsely populated areas where indigenous people live. These areas are still covered by forests and ...
