EU needs significant fall in road pollution to meet targets 22/6/2016

European Union greenhouse gas emissions fell in 2014 to their lowest level since 1990, although the bloc said more diesel vehicles had increased carbon dioxide on its roads and significant cuts were needed. ...more

Norway ratifies Paris Agreement 22/6/2016

Norway has become the first industrialised nation to formally ratify the Paris Agreement, after its ambassador Geir Pederson deposited its "instrument of ratification" to the UN's climate change Secretariat on Monday. ...more

Watch pianist Ludovico Einaudi’s haunting performance as he floats by a crumbling glacier (VIDEO) 22/6/2016

In a stunning visual reminder of what’s at stake as the earth warms, an acclaimed Italian composer and pianist delivered the performance of a lifetime — playing a baby grand on a small floating platform as a glacier crumbled around him. ...more

Dubai to get waste-to-energy plant by 2020 21/6/2016

Dubai will have the largest plant in the Middle East to convert waste to energy by the second quarter of 2020. ...more

Solar PV Recycling could exceed $15 billion by 2050 21/6/2016

The global solar photovoltaic (PV) boom currently underway will represent a significant untapped business opportunity as decommissioned solar panels enter the waste stream in the years ahead, according to a report released yesterday by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the International Energy Agency’s Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme (IEA-PVPS). ...more

China prosecutors win landmark lawsuit against environmental department 21/6/2016

Chinese prosecutors have successfully sued a county environmental agency for inadequately punishing a sewage firm that produced dye without appropriate safeguards, the first-such public interest case against a government department. ...more

Mass elephant relocation could save populations in parts of Africa 21/6/2016

Wildlife experts in Malawi will next month start moving up to 500 elephants to a sanctuary that they hope could eventually serve as a reservoir to restore some elephant populations in other parts of Africa where the threatened species has been heavily poached. ...more

Chicken litter to power up Ballymena biogas plant 21/6/2016

A new biogas plant in Northern Ireland is set to produce energy from large volumes of chicken litter. ...more

U.S. contest challenges video-game makers to battle climate change 21/6/2016

Video-game developers are competing this week in a contest that will reward games that combat neither mortal enemies nor monsters but climate change. ...more

Solar Impulse to start transatlantic flight on Monday 20/6/2016

The team behind Solar Impulse 2 is expected to start a historic transatlantic flight on Monday. ...more