Panorama

Businesses, cities and NGOs call for fossil fuel-free investments in EU’s regions

Monday, 25 March 2019 Robin Whitlock An open letter, signed by 44 organisations and sent today to EU Parliamentarians, urges them to rule out fossil fuel investments when they meet to vote on the spending priorities of post-2020 Cohesion ...

ETI releases new report to support the UK’s transition to low carbon domestic heating

Wednesday, 20 March 2019 Robin Whitlock The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has published the outcomes from Phase 1 of its Smart Systems and Heat programme, detailing how the UK could decarbonise domestic heat to meet its 2050 climate change ...

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer promises to deliver measures tackling climate change

Friday, 15 March 2019 Robin Whitlock

In his Spring Statement, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer promised a number of measures to further decarbonise the British economy.

NECP Opts for PV and Wind to Lead the Energy Transition

Wednesday, 06 March 2019 REM Photovoltaics and wind are called to lead the energy transition as reflected in the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan and its proposals for the electricity sector. But according to the Spanish ...

Germany

New Eco-District in Freiburg Receives Green Light

Wednesday, 27 February 2019 Dan McCue The German City of Freiburg has decided in favor of the construction of a new eco-district called Dietenbach. The green light was given by 60 percent of the citizens who went to vote in the referendum, ...

Cleantech showcase seeks game-changing technologies

Tuesday, 26 February 2019 Robin Whitlock Applications have opened for entrepreneurs with game-changing technologies to pitch to investors at Cleantech Innovate, an annual showcase event for innovative clean technologies that will take place on ...

UK homes are unfit for the challenges of climate change, warns the Climate Change Committee (CCC)

Thursday, 21 February 2019 Robin Whitlock Government must act now to improve the quality of UK homes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to safeguard the comfort, health and wellbeing of its citizens as the climate changes, the Committee on ...

The energy transition can only be successful if everybody is involved, say stakeholders at EESC debate on accessible energy

Thursday, 14 February 2019 Robin Whitlock The role of people in the energy transition was at the heart of the agenda of the February meeting of the Section for transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society (TEN) of the European ...

Half of institutional investors expect to participate in the energy transition finds new study

Wednesday, 13 February 2019 Robin Whitlock A new study by Aquila Capital has found that almost half (49 percent) of institutional investors expect to increase their exposure to assets supporting and participating in the energy transition by 2021, ...

UK Government awards funding to carbon-cutting rail projects

Thursday, 31 January 2019 Robin Whitlock Five innovative projects are to receive £350,000 each from government to adapt their schemes for the rail network, having been chosen for development funding in the second round of the Department for ...