With climate finance, Africa can lead the green industrial revolution

With climate finance, Africa can lead the green industrial revolution

Comment: Africa could see the creation of millions of green jobs, along expanded and resilient global value chains – but for this to happen, it needs more international support Ambassador Ali Mohamed is Kenya’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Chair of the Africa Group of Negotiators at the COP29 UN climate conference. At COP29 … Read more

With increased climate finance, Africa can lead the green industrial revolution

With climate finance, Africa can lead the green industrial revolution

Comment: African could see the creation of millions of green jobs, along expanded and resilient global value chains – but for this to happen, it needs more international support Ambassador Ali Mohamed is Kenya’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Chair of the Africa Group of Negotiators at the COP29 UN climate conference. At COP29 … Read more

Commission issues guidance on phasing out financing for stand-alone fossil fuel boilers from 2025

Commission issues guidance on phasing out financing for stand-alone fossil fuel boilers from 2025

The European Commission has today issued the first of a series of guidance documents to support EU countries in transposing and implementing the revised Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings into national law. Today’s guidance (C/2024/7161) clarifies the requirement under Article 17 (15) to discontinue, at the latest from 1 January 2025, any financial incentive … Read more

Security, Integration and Energy Transition in Latin America

Security, Integration and Energy Transition in Latin America

The data and reflections present in the book Security, Integration and Energy Transition in Latin America: Challenges and Perspectives are solid contributions to the examination of a dynamic realitya, which demands of new countries institutional arrangementss in the midst of the energy transition and climate changes. The book has two central objectives. Firstly, it was … Read more

Criticism of Hamburg’s plans to build new wind turbines | NDR.de – News

Criticism of Hamburg’s plans to build new wind turbines | NDR.de – News

As of: October 4th, 2024 7:22 a.m According to the will of the Senate, numerous new wind turbines are to be built in Hamburg in the coming years. To this end, the environmental authority recently presented plans for new areas together with the urban development authority. The Federal Wind Energy Association considers these plans to … Read more

Energy policy: Britain closes its last coal-fired power station – politics

Energy policy: Britain closes its last coal-fired power station – politics

Pictures from Ratcliffe-on-Soar always look the same: green meadows, brick houses and the eight thick, steaming cooling towers in the background. Ratcliffe-on-Soar is a village in Nottinghamshire, in the middle of England, about 150 inhabitants, one church. Known because of the massive coal-fired power plant that has existed here since the 1960s. The BBC recently … Read more

WB climate financing reaches record of 42.6 billion dollars in 2024

WB climate financing reaches record of 42.6 billion dollars in 2024

Washington. The World Bank said Thursday that it provided a record $42.6 billion in climate finance during fiscal year 2024, a 10 percent increase from $38.6 billion the previous year and close to the goal of a 45 percent share of total financing dedicated to climate projects. Why is it important? World Bank President Ajay … Read more

Energy transition funds could come from crude oil extraction: CNH

Energy transition funds could come from crude oil extraction: CNH

The income that Mexico obtains from oil and gas extraction is an alternative to finance the migration to the use of clean and renewable energy, said Agustín Díaz Lastra, president of the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH). Participating in the “2024 National Petroleum Convention: For a growing Mexico,” the official acknowledged that the country is experiencing … Read more

Suedlink: Construction of the next section in Baden-Württemberg can start

Suedlink: Construction of the next section in Baden-Württemberg can start

Stuttgart. Work on the second section of the power line Suedlink in Baden-Württemberg can begin. The next planning approval decision for the section in the north of the state has been received from the Federal Network Agency, the transmission system operator Transnet BW in Stuttgart announced. This means that building permission now exists for all … Read more

Instead of sun and wind: Is nuclear power making a comeback in Switzerland?

Instead of sun and wind: Is nuclear power making a comeback in Switzerland?

The Federal Council has presented the key points of its message on the “Stop Blackout” initiative. The indirect counter-proposal, which seeks to remove the ban on new nuclear power plants from the law, is in contrast to the will of the Swiss people. They have repeatedly expressed their support for clean, domestic electricity from solar, … Read more