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Slow Uptake Has Countries Missing Benefits of Renewable Energy Transition, REN21 Warns
While the industry’s growth in 2018 showed that “renewable power is here to stay”, countries around the world are falling short of the full ... -
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Senate Committee Urges Federal Support for Northern Climate Resilience
The climate resilience of Canada’s Northern communities—many of them Indigenous—is an urgent priority that calls for better financial and technical support from the Trudeau ... -
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Critics Scorch UK’s Net-Zero Announcement for Slow Transition, Misuse of International Carbon Credits
Soon-to-depart Prime Minister Theresa May has unveiled legislation to make the UK the first G7 country to enshrine a 2050 net-zero carbon deadline in ... -
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Subsidies Would Help Deliver Mini-Grids as Cheapest Rural Electrification for Sub-Saharan Africa
While subsidies have helped ensure the expansion of national power grid systems around the world, using public money to finance solar mini-grids is less ... -
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Renewables Employed 11 Million in 2018, IRENA Reports
Renewable energy employed 11 million people around the world last year despite slower annual growth in key markets like China, the International Renewable Energy ... -
U.S. Set to Add 17,000 MW of New Renewables Per Year Through 2022
The United States is on track to add 17,000 megawatts of new renewable energy capacity per year through 2022, according to analysis this week ... -
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Inuit Call for Federal Partnership to Address ‘Life and Death’ Climate Impacts
With the Arctic warming at nearly twice the national average rate, Canada’s Inuit are urging the federal government to form a working partnership grounded ... -
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Stiglitz: Green New Deal Would Deliver the Second World War-Scale Investment to Confront the Climate Crisis
Describing the climate crisis as the “third world war,” Nobel laureate and former World Bank chief economist Joseph E Stiglitz is urging critics of ... -
Quirky Ontario Electricity Pricing Creates Opportunity for Battery Storage
Battery developers have become the unintended beneficiaries of a strange quirk in Ontario energy policies that has a growing number of commercial and industrial ... -
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Chile Shuts Eight Coal Plants, Sets 2040 Deadline for 100% RE
Chile is planning to close eight coal plants with combined capacity of 23,000 megawatts, or 20% of its electricity, as part of a new ...
