Despite high demand for biogas, few new production facilities have been built in Germany.

A small town near the French city of Nantes could soon welcome a new anaerobic digester benefitting up to 200 farmers, but locals oppose the plan over concerns of environmental harm.

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Russia is against compulsory limitations on the use of fossil fuels, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a video address to an international forum on environmental policies and sustainable development on Friday.

Electricity generation by Russia’s wind and solar power plants rose by 48.9% in January-September 2022 year-on-year to 6.1 bln kWh, and by 29.9% in September to 578 mln kWh, the System Operator of the Russian United Energy System (UES) reported on Friday.

The German government published the framework for its biomass strategy on Tuesday (6 October) which aims to solve the conflict between biomass use versus electrification, guarantee food security and set standards for strategies in other EU countries.

The second draft of a law on cultivating and processing cannabis for medicinal and industrial purposes has been put forward by the Albanian government, bringing the plant another step closer to at least partial legalisation.

…This product is the basis for the PVC used for doors and window frames and a critical component in the quest for energy efficiency — and hence decarbonisation — via double glazing….

Many say you can never be too rich.

Indonesia is only the European Union’s fifth-largest trading partner out of the ten Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) states.