Category: Alternative & Renewable Energy

The details of the “Desert to Power Initiative” have been outlined as part of the Paris Agreement climate change talks at COP24 in Katowice, Poland last week.Energy poverty in Africa is estimated to cost the continent 2-4 % GDP annually, according to the African Development Bank (AfDB), which is leading the project. The Initiative aims…

Delegates from nearly 200 countries on Sunday finalised a common rule book designed to deliver the Paris Climate treaty goals of limiting global temperature rises to well below two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit). “Putting together the Paris agreement work programme is a big responsibility,” said COP24 president Michal Kurtyka as he gavelled through the deal…

Today, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 24) in Poland, 15 international organisations jointly announced a commitment to make their operations climate neutral. The organizations will measure their greenhouse gas emissions, reduce them as much as possible and compensate the currently unavoidable ones with credible carbon credits. Representing over two million tons of…

By Haley Zaremba Solar energy is no longer a cutting-edge technology. The public is well-acquainted with the sight of solar panels dotting the rooftops of their cities, and the sight is only becoming more common as the years go by. But while it’s not obvious to the average layperson, solar energy in in fact evolving…

By Haley Zaremba On Tuesday, just days after president Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in Mexico, the Mexican government announced that it would be suspending a scheduled auction of long-term, clean-energy contracts. The new administration under leftist president López Obrador, who won the presidency in a landslide election back in July, will keep the…

The United Nations Climate Conference (COP 24) today convened a high-level session launching eight days of focused events and dialogues on Global Climate Action, aimed at building a bridge between government delegates and non-Party, public and private stakeholders in the global response to climate change. The event, which featured United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, Poland’s…

Jumoke Adelabu – Lagos The United Nations says it needs more than US$9 billion (S$12.3 billion) to fund its humanitarian work in sub-Saharan Africa next year as the twin challenges of conflict and climate change continue to wreak havoc with people’s lives. It’s an increase on 2018 – as the UN says humanitarian crises are…

German solar battery maker, Sonnen, has won approval to join the lucrative market for keeping the country’s power network in balance, giving a boost to its drive to reach profitability. Jean-Baptiste Cornefert, head of Sonnen’s eServices retail unit, told media it had been accepted by Germany’s biggest power grid firm TenneT to join the so-called…

Energy Worth Online with Agency Report United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that the world is in “deep trouble’’ due to climate change. Guterres gave the warning at the 24th Conference of Parties (COP24) Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland on Monday. He told parties to the UN Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) that the…