News: ‘Climate & Energy’ Archive
‘WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that 79 applications for surface coal-mine permits in Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio and Tennessee might violate the nation’s Clean Water Act and require closer scrutiny.’
via EPA delays 79 permits for Appalachian surface mines | McClatchy.
‘OSLO Reuters – A strong shift toward renewable energies could create 2.7 million more jobs in power generation worldwide by 2030 than staying with dependence on fossil fuels would, a report suggested Monday.’
via Clean energy to create more jobs than coal: study | Green Business | Reuters.
‘FRANKFURT — Two German merchant ships have traversed the fabled Northeast Passage after global warming and melting ice opened a route from South Korea along Russia’s Arctic coast to Siberia.’
via Global Warming: 2 German Cargo Ships Pass Through ‘Arctic Passage’.
‘LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The United States and China are in a head-to-head race to become the world’s top market for solar power, and panel makers are wasting no time making plans to cash in on the growth promise of both markets despite the global recession.’
via China, U.S. to dominate solar market | Green Business | Reuters.
‘BEIJING Reuters – China will have to retool its engines of economic growth to help the world avoid increasingly dangerous levels of greenhouse gas emissions in coming decades, a leading expert on the economic impact of climate change said.’
via World must help China shift to clean growth: Stern | Green Business | Reuters.
Reuters video of climate scientist Gavin Schmidt, describing possible outcomes of Copenhagen CO2 reduction targets for 2020 and 2050 as “commensurate with the scale of the problem we face”.
‘NEW YORK (Reuters) – First Solar Inc said on Tuesday it plans to build the world’s largest solar plant in China in the first major foray by a U.S. company into the Asian nation’s fast growing alternative energy sector.’
via First Solar to build huge Chinese solar plant | Reuters.
‘OSLO Reuters – The share of renewable energy will have to rise “dramatically” if the world is to have a chance of limiting global warming to a maximum 2 Celsius 3.6 Fahrenheit temperature rise, a leading expert said Wednesday.’
via Dramatic rise in renewables needed for 2 Celsius goal | Green Business | Reuters.
‘SYDNEY (Reuters) – The chances of a global agreement to fight climate change at U.N. talks in Copenhagen in December are only 50:50, said Australia’s leading environmentalist, who warned of “full climactic destabilization” without a pact.’
‘LONDON (Reuters) – Lobbyist pressure will not weigh on a U.N. panel’s decision whether to award carbon finance worth about 100 million euros ($144 million) to Chinese wind power projects, said the chair of the panel on Tuesday.’
via U.N. panel to rule on $144 million China wind projects | Green Business | Reuters.