The EIB Investment Report shows that the European Union invested EUR 158 billion in climate change mitigation in 2018. This is now marginally less than the United States and little over a third of China’s performance.
Lighthouse BP has successfully provided a reactive power service from a solar plant at night. This proves that solar plants can play a larger role across the electricity network – even at night, the company comments.
Japan’s Tohoku Electric Power has won initial regulatory approval to restart a reactor at its Onagawa power plant, more than 8 years after it was damaged in the earthquake and tsunami that caused the Fukushima disaster.
A British startup is helping farmers on Scotland’s west coast adapt to the reality of less rain by choosing salt-resistant plants and developing saltmarshes – land flooded by tidal waters – for them to grow in.
Deutsche Post DHL Group’s StreetScooter electric vehicle unit will enter the U.S. market next year as delivery firms and municipalities work to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Paris plans to expand its urban cooling system using water from the Seine river to small companies and residential buildings as a substitute to individual aircon units.
The injunction against Greenpeace came after protests against Shell’s plans to leave parts of four old oil rigs in the North Sea. Three of those rigs contain over 11.000 tonnes of oil, according to Greenpeace.
Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record in 2018, reinforcing increasingly damaging weather patterns, the World Meteorological Organization said.
China’s investment in renewable energy fell 39 percent in the first half of the year, the Financial Times writes. China has canceled subsidies for solar panel projects over the past year.
Heatwaves – set to worsen as climate change strengthens – are cutting working hours and income, with the poor struggling to stay cool.