The U.K. offshore wind industry is to get a £100 million ($127 million) fund to spur growth in the next decade. The Offshore Wind Industry Council, run by government and industry, will invest in companies along the whole supply chain and support companies wanting to ...
EU leaders fail to agree on 2050 carbon-neutral goal as four states refuse to budge
European Union leaders failed Thursday to back a plan to make the bloc's economy carbon-neutral by 2050 in spite of promises to protesters across the continent to fight harder against climate change. Ahead of a U.N. meeting in the fall, the proposal was relegated to ...
Trump's coal-rich U.N. choice to step back from some climate talks
President Donald Trump's pick for ambassador to the United Nations promised Wednesday to allow climate diplomacy to move forward despite her family's fortune in coal. Kelly Craft, at a Senate hearing to confirm her for the high-profile post that has been vacant for nearly half ...
Japan to partially end feed-in tariff system for electricity from renewable sources
Japan's industry ministry plans to partially end the country's feed-in tariff program, under which electricity produced by businesses and others from renewable energy sources — such as from solar and wind — is bought by power suppliers at fixed rates, it has been learned. To ...
Nissin to use eco-friendly plant-based plastics for instant noodle cups
Nissin Food Products Co. said Tuesday that in December it will start to use eco-friendly plant-based plastics for packaging for its mainstay Cup Noodle instant ramen products. The company plans to complete the shift by the end of March 2022. Nissin aims to raise the proportion ...
The government should shake itself free from lobby groups and establish the nation as a world leader in the shift toward renewables
In energy fight in Ohio, billionaire Koch and environmentalists are on the same side
The Sierra Club and billionaire Charles Koch have found at least one thing to agree on: They hate Ohio's plan to take away renewable power subsidies and give them to coal and nuclear plants. The pair, normally at odds over energy issues, have both found ...
Solutions to the biggest threats facing our planet lie underground, according to experts who insist climate change, overpopulation and food shortages can all be tackled by going subterranean. "We are coming to a point in our history in which we need to start looking for ...
Answer to climate change will be found in labs, Exxon Mobil CEO says
For Darren Woods, Exxon Mobil Corp.'s chief executive officer, the answer to climate change won't be found in solar panels or high-profile global accords, but rather in a U.S. government laboratory. At a time when environmentalists want Exxon to leave more oil and gas in ...
Jera eyes role as global renewable leader but says coal will still play role in Japan's energy mix
With the integration of existing thermal power plants of its parents Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and Chubu Electric Power Co. completed on April 1, Jera Co. has completed the last step of unifying the full value chain from upstream fuel and power ...
Police in Georgia clash with gorge-dwelling protesters hoping to block hydro plant
Georgian police used tear gas and rubber bullets on Sunday to break up a protest by residents of a mountainous region against the construction of a hydropower plant, the independent Rustavi-2 TV station reported. Around 300 residents of the Pankisi gorge gathered near the village ...
Japan's greenhouse gas emissions fell 1.2% in fiscal 2017 as use of renewables increased
Japan's greenhouse gas emissions fell 1.2 percent in fiscal 2017 — a fourth straight year of decline — as the use of renewable energy increased, the Environment Ministry said Tuesday. Emissions totaled the equivalent of 1.292 billion tons of carbon dioxide in the fiscal year ...
