Plans for UK's first renewable energy college 12/12/2014

The UK government has announced plans to develop a National College for Wind Energy, the nation’s first further education center dedicated to renewable energy. ...more

China's cities to play key role in tackling global climate change 12/12/2014

China’s cities now account for more than half of the country’s energy use and are home to nearly half of the country’s population; that makes cities’ long-term sustainability critical to China’s climate change goal of peaking carbon pollution by 2030 or before, according to a new report. ...more

World Energy Trilemma 2014: the myths and realities of financing energy systems 11/12/2014

To assist policymakers with pressing forward competitive and sustainable energy systems, the World Energy Council, in partnership with global management consultancy Oliver Wyman, has published the 2014 “World Energy Trilemma report: Time to get real - the myths and realities of financing energy systems”. ...more

UN: Mangroves need carbon finance mechanisms 11/12/2014

Removing mangrove forests that protect tropical coastlines is costing countries $42bn in damages each year and creating millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions, according to a UN report. ...more

Storing hydrogen underground could boost transportation and energy security 11/12/2014

Large-scale storage of low-pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid-scale energy applications offers several advantages over above-ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the US Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office. ...more

Rosetta: Comets did not bring water to Earth 11/12/2014

Results from Europe's Rosetta mission, which made history by landing on Comet 67P in November, shows the water on the icy mass is unlike that on our planet. ...more

Australia pledges $200 million to Green Climate Fund but named worst-performing industrial country on climate change 10/12/2014

Australia will contribute A$200 million over four years into a U.N. fund to help poor nations cope with global warming, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Wednesday, despite earlier having said it did not intend to contribute to the fund. ...more

Facing Typhoon Hagupit: Philippines Pushes Developing Countries to Cut Their Emissions 10/12/2014

As the torrential rains of Typhoon Hagupit flood the Philippines, driving millions of people from their homes, the Philippine government urged the United Nations climate change summit meeting in Lima, Peru, to push hard ...more

Abandoned U.S. oil wells still spewing methane, study find 10/12/2014

Some of the millions of abandoned oil and natural gas wells in the United States are still spewing methane, marking a potentially large source of unrecorded greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study released on Monday. ...more

Lava flows toward Hawaii village, threatens major intersection 10/12/2014

Slow-moving lava from an erupting volcano on Hawaii's Big Island continued to flow toward a small village, and threatened to reach a major traffic intersection before year's end. ...more