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Greenpeace Reveals Brands Stumbling on the Catwalk to Toxin-Free Fashion
Since the “Detox My Fashion” campaign launched in 2011, 76 fashion brands, retailers and suppliers have committed to remove toxic chemicals from their supply chains by 2020, accounting for a combined 15 percent of global textile production. For its 2016…
IRENA Conference Set to Boost Off-Grid Renewable Energy Development Worldwide
Key stakeholders from the off-grid renewable energy sector – including policy makers, the private sector, financiers, and development institutions – will gather in Nairobi, Kenya from 30 September to 1 October 2016, to push forward the global off-grid agenda. The…
IEA releases Oil Market Report for August
Crude oil prices eased to around $45 per barrel in August as a global supply overhang weighed and demand growth weakened, the newly released IEA Oil Market Report (OMR) for August informs subscribers. Brent crude had threatened to break below…
Sonoma Clean Power Signs New Wind Contract
Sonoma Clean Power (SCP), the nonprofit public agency in USA that has been generating electricity for 88 percent of Sonoma County’s residents and business owners since launching in 2014, has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 20 years of…
Russia Open for Talks on Gas Price Discount for Turkey – Energy Minister
Russia is willing to discuss a lower price for natural gas deliveries to Turkey, the Russian energy minister said Tuesday after President Vladimir Putin met with his Turkish counterpart in St. Petersburg. At the end of 2015, Russian gas accounted…
SolarCity And ComEd Discover Shared Vision For Utilities’ Future
ComEd doesn’t deliver any solar energy to its Chicago-area customers, and California-based SolarCity doesn’t do business in Illinois, but from distant reaches of the country, and from opposite ends of the power grid, the two companies have come to much…
IEA data shows global energy production and consumption continue to rise
Reflecting the IEA’s increasingly global perspective, for the first time the Agency’s OECD and non-OECD Energy Balances and Statistics reports have been merged into two comprehensive global reports on energy data. World energy Balances and World Energy Statistics will contain…