Here is a very alarming article which was posted by Sky News today (23/09/2019) outlining the results of ongoing work performed by the United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Change. The world is already struggling to meet the current targets. How do we get the world to accept stricter targets? Sky News article here
On Thursday (22 August), Angela Merkel and several of her ministers came to The Hague to meet with the Dutch government. At the meeting, Merkel and Rutte announced their collaboration in strengthening climate protection at EU level. The German chancellor also stated that she favours a 55% reduction in greenhouse gases in the European Union … Read more
The construction of the world’s first zero subsidy offshore wind farms in coming years is expected to render coal-based power plants unviable in the Netherlands, leading to their closure much before an official ban on them begins in the country in 2030, GlobalData said. The closure of these plants should lead to an increase in … Read more
Decarbonizing the U.S. power grid rapidly will cost $4.5 trillion, according to a new report from the energy consultancy and research firm Wood Mackenzie. For context, the 2018 U.S. military budget was $700 billion. A huge rollout of wind and solar power generation, a reinforced transmission network and the vast deployment of energy storage will be … Read more
Sam Arie, Financial Times, 17 July 2019 Few things should make you as optimistic — or as pessimistic — as the rise of renewable energy. Optimism comes from a new sense of urgency as the UK, Germany and Spain set record highs for use of wind and solar power, and record lows for coal. Even … Read more
In a series of blogs, Eddie O’Connor will examine how Europe will meet it’s Paris decarbonisation goals. In this blog post, Eddie discusses how the supergrid discussed in Blog Post 3 will require changes in politics to operate. Much has been made of the loss of confidence of big business in the … Read more