IRENA and Azerbaijan COP29 Presidency to Hold Energy Transition Investment Forum in Baku
This two-day forum will convene global and regional stakeholders to mobilise investments for renewables-based energy transition projects across Central Asia.
This two-day forum will convene global and regional stakeholders to mobilise investments for renewables-based energy transition projects across Central Asia.
After decades of corporate good intentions but mixed results, regulators and investors are no longer satisfied with promises to curb emissions or protect biodiversity. The conversation has shifted to the practicalities of how to reduce emissions, manage environmental risks, and report these efforts with credibility and transparency. While for many years the core focus was on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, recently, the call to action has been expanding across all nature assets and ecosystems, expanding both the opportunity for impact and the challenges for defining and measuring impact. Telling stakeholders you intend to be an effective steward of climate and nature isn’t enough. Increasingly, regulation requires firms to show, not just tell.
New IEA report offers first-of-its-kind global stocktake of efforts to integrate variable renewables across 50 power systems, identifying best practices and key challenges
From January 1st 2025 street advertising for fossil fuels will be banned by law in the Netherland’s third largest city
An ambitious vision for how the UK’s seabed can continue to support the accelerated delivery of nature recovery and the transition to clean energy has been set out by The Crown Estate, which manages the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Largest ever UK industry study of 2,005 UK organisations reveals 65% of respondents are targeting net zero by 2050, with 48% setting targets within the next decade.
30% of the biggest corporate emitters have long-term (2050) climate targets aligned with 1.5°C, according to analysis published today (10th September) by The Transition Pathway Initiative Centre (TPI Centre) based at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
The 2nd MEFED Dialogue Paves the Way for Deepened Energy Cooperation between Germany, the European Union, and the Mediterranean and Gulf Regions. Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action of the Federal Republic of Germany, Robert Habeck, and the Minister for Environment and Energy of the Hellenic Republic, Theodoros Skylakakis, hosted the 2nd MENA-Europe Future Energy Dialogue (MEFED24) yesterday (September 8th 2024) in Thessaloniki. The aim of this dialogue is to strengthen energy cooperation between the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and Europe.
August 2024 was the joint-warmest August globally (together with August 2023), with an average surface air temperature of 16.82°C, 0.71°C above the 1991-2020 average for the same month, according to data from Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
Digital Catapult, part of the Catapult Network of world-leading technology and innovation centres established by Innovate UK, has announced its first International Supply Chain Accelerator, set to transform global supply chains through the application of deep tech solutions.
Africa bears an increasingly heavy burden from climate change and disproportionately high costs for essential climate adaptation, according to a new report from the WMO
Sixth renewable energy auction delivers a record of 133 clean energy projects, enough to power the equivalent of 11 million homes.
As we enter September, momentum is building towards COP29, which will take place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11th-22nd November. A series of events focusing on accelerating action to tackle the climate crisis will be held by leading organisations globally across the month
The UK hit a historic milestone of 30 GW of wind generation capacity, tracked by RenewableUK’s EnergyPulse.
The government will consult on new environmental guidance for oil and gas, alongside an announcement that it will not challenge the judicial reviews brought against development consent for the Jackdaw and Rosebank offshore oil and gas fields in the North Sea.
The UKRI Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Innovate UK have invested £15 million into the National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre (NAPIC). The NAPIC is a collaboration between researchers at the University of Leeds, the James Hutton Institute, Imperial College London and the University of Sheffield.