Amazon deforestation accelerating towards unrecoverable ‘tipping point’
Data confirms fears that Jair Bolsonaro’s policy encourages illegal logging in Brazil Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has surged above three football fields a minute, according to the latest government data, pushing the world’s biggest rainforest closer to a tipping
UK risks losing out to Europe in home battery boom, report warns
Controversial tax hike could leave country lagging behind as continent powers ahead The UK risks being left behind in Europe’s home battery boom because of a controversial tax hike on solar-battery systems, according to a report. The energy consultancy Wood
BP and Shell planning for catastrophic 5°C global warming despite publicly backing Paris climate agreement
Companies are trying to 'have their oil and drink it' by committing to 2°C in public while planning for much higher temperature rises, says shareholder campaign group, ShareAction Oil giants Shell and BP are planning for global temperatures to rise
Power struggle hindering U.S. growth of renewable energy, experts say
Aug. 5 (UPI) -- As more consumer options for greener technologies emerge in the United States, there's a power struggle for control of the electricity market -- between customers and vendors of solar power and utilities that deliver and sell
Companies that fail to respond to climate change ‘will go bankrupt without question’, Mark Carney warns
Bank of England governor says efforts to reverse global warming will lead to 'major changes' in UK economy Companies that fail to respond to the challenges of climate change “will go bankrupt without question”, the governor of the Bank of
No flights, a four-day week and living off-grid: what climate scientists do at home to save the planet
What changes have the experts made to their own lives to tackle the climate emergency? The researcher planning a four-day working week ‘We need to reduce our capacity and urge to consume’ Month after month, there is research showing that
Energy Storage Boom Goes Into Overdrive
Continuously falling battery costs, and rising capacity and usage of clean energy are set to result in booming global stationary energy storage over the next two decades, which will require total investments of as much as US$662 billion. That’s one
Battery storage called into action as UK suffers country-wide power cuts
Battery storage assets were called into action last week after the UK suffered country-wide power outages following a transmission system stress event. Last Friday evening (9 August 2019), two large generators were disconnected from the UK’s power system almost simultaneously,
How to Keep The Lights on During a Power Cut
Power cuts and backup options.