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Jorge Toledo’s comments come after approvals for coal power projects increased in second half of 2024The EU’s ambassador to China has urged Beijing to stop building coal-fired power plants, saying that its rapid approval of new projects was increasingl…
続きを読むStudy found electric vehicles and batteries added largest amount to country’s clean-energy economyClean energy contributed a record 10% of China’s gross domestic product in 2024, an analysis has found.With sales and investments worth 13.6tn yuan (£1.5t…
続きを読むMinimum quotas for purchase of coal power and new project approvals threaten major advances in renewable energy production, thinktanks sayChina’s energy production is putting coal and renewables in competition with each other, according to a new analys…
続きを読むTokyo wants to drop attempts to lessen its reliance on nuclear power, according to a draft energy planMore than a decade after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, Japan is again turning to nuclear power as it struggles to reach it…
続きを読むFrom the Himalayas and Nepal to Northern Ireland, sustainable source of energy seems to be back in vogueIn the foothills of the Himalayas, a group of villagers hauled a sturdy metal waterwheel into place. Its horizontal blades soon caught the rushing w…
続きを読むThe Finnish electricity grid’s head of operations says sabotage can’t be ruled outAn undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia broke down on Wednesday, Finland’s prime minister said, the latest in a series of incidents involving cables and energ…
続きを読むDocumentary shows the gruelling labour put in by a married couple wringing out drops of black gold as their son looks for a different livingIn Saeed Taji Farouky’s impressionistic documentary, the act of manual labour gains a sensorial, almost celestia…
続きを読むDocumentary charts historic case of a community who sued arm of World Bank over a power plant’s impact on their livesEarly on in The Fisherman and the Banker, Ibrahim Saliman Manjalia, a charismatic fisher originally from Badreshwar, tells those gather…
続きを読むCountries and companies involved in oil and gas extraction to be asked to join scheme aimed at tackling global heatingFossil-fuel producing countries and companies are being asked to pay into a new international fund to help poor countries cope with th…
続きを読むCountry on track reach 1,200GW of installed wind and solar capacity by end of 2024 – six years ahead of Beijing’s targetThe amount of wind and solar power under construction in China is now nearly twice as much as the rest of the world combined, a repo…
続きを読むIncident reignites concerns over crackdown on media before crucial UN climate talks in Baku later this yearWestern journalists were refused entry to an energy industry conference in Azerbaijan earlier this month, reigniting concerns over the state’s cr…
続きを読むIncreasing use of fans, air coolers and air conditioners is placing ‘serious’ strain on grid in north of countryEngineers in India have warned of the possibility of prolonged power outages in the north, where a heatwave has brought misery for millions …
続きを読むAs a heatwave sweeps the country increasing demand for power, a new report says a more resilient network could also contribute $300m to the economyA study by the UN children’s agency has found that developing resilient energy systems to keep the power …
続きを読むStudy finds about a quarter of health burden comes from power stations that generate just 3% of country’s electricityIndia struggles with some of the worst air pollution in the world. Now scientists have worked out which of the country’s power plants a…
続きを読むCoconut biodiesel offers a cheaper alternative to fuel imports and scientists in the Pacific country are looking at how to use it more widelyOn Karkar island in Papua New Guinea, hundreds of coconut trees stand tall, stretching far into the distance.De…
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