New York (AFP) Sept 20, 2022 - Germany, China, Spain and the UK are leading the world's richest nations in the push towards renewable energy, a new report said Tuesday.
Oslo (AFP) Sept 20, 2022 - Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, announced Tuesday that it will require that the approximately 9,000 companies it has invested in worldwide achieve zero net carbon emissions by 2050.
New York (AFP) Sept 20, 2022 - A commercial plane photoshopped with the tail of a shark, hashtags that misleadingly evoke sustainability, tokenistic use of minorities to distract and to signal virtue: a Harvard report published Tuesday highlights rampant greenwashing by leading companies on social media.
Sydney (AFP) Sept 20, 2022 - Australian mining giant Fortescue on Tuesday said it is putting aside US$6.2 billion to wean itself off fossil fuels by the end of the decade, hoping to gain a head start on competitors.
Sydney (AFP) Sept 19, 2022 - One of Australia's top energy producers said on Monday it would sell its stake in a major fracking project that has come under criticism from environmental and Indigenous groups.
Paris (AFP) Sept 17, 2022 - France's famed Louvre and Versailles museums will turn off their lights earlier as a symbolic measure to remind the public of the energy crisis sparked by the Ukraine war, the culture minister said on Saturday.
Helsinki (AFP) Sept 17, 2022 - Activists from environmental group Greenpeace on Saturday blocked a shipment of Russian gas from unloading at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in northern Finland, the terminal owner and Greenpeace said.
Nairobi (AFP) Sept 16, 2022 - Uganda's parliament has lashed out at European lawmakers over a resolution condemming a massive East African oil project and calling for it to be delayed.
Samarkand, Uzbekistan (AFP) Sept 15, 2022 - A Russian pipeline to China will replace the Nord Stream 2 gas link to Europe, abandoned amid the Ukraine conflict, Moscow's Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Thursday.
Saskatoon, Canada (SPX) Sep 15, 2022 - In her research on bone tissue engineering, Dr. Marta Cerruti has worked for years with graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms with incredible properties - electrical conductivity and the ability
Paris (AFP) Sept 14, 2022 - Around 200 health organisations and more than 1,400 health professionals on Wednesday called for governments to establish a binding international treaty on phasing out fossil fuels, which they said pose a grave and escalating threat to human health.
Paris (AFP) Sept 14, 2022 - China's repeated Covid lockdowns and a slowdown in developed economies are weighing on the growth of global oil demand this year, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday.
Tehran (AFP) Sept 14, 2022 - The crew of one of two Greek oil tankers seized by Iranian armed forces in May have been replaced by their company, Iran's foreign ministry said Wednesday.
Paris (AFP) Sept 13, 2022 - Paris will start switching off the ornamental lights that grace city monuments hours earlier than usual, plunging the Eiffel Tower and other landmarks in the dark to cope with surging electricity costs, officials said Tuesday.
Karlsruhe, Germany (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is largely involved in a new battery recycling project. LiBinfinity focuses on a holistic concept for recycling materials of lithium-ion batteries. A mechanic
Ulaanbaatar (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 - Mongolia has launched a rail line that could help boost coal exports to China to 50 million tonnes a year, the country's president said, ending a decade-long wait for the crossing.
