Fifth Third Bank Commits & Succeeds In Going 100% Renewable With Single Solar PPA
Ohio-based Fifth Third Bank has become the first Fortune 500 company, the first bank, and the first RE100 member to achieve its goal of securing 100% of its power consumption with renewables in a single Power Purchase Agreement from a…
Katowice (Poland) Is Using Drones To Locate Illegal Emissions Sources
The city of Katowice in Poland has begun using drones outfitted with various air quality sensors as a means of locating illegal emissions sources — and thus as a way of locating otherwise hard to locate offenders. To explain that…
Thomas LUBECK, IFC: Tailwinds to the Financial Market
International Finance Corporation – IFC, one of the five members of the World Bank Group, is the world’s largest institution that encourages economic development by investing in the private sector in emerging markets. Serbia became a shareholder and a member…
UK Carbon Emissions Fall to 1890 Levels
The last time annual UK carbon dioxide emissions were as consistently low as they are currently air travel was still an unproven invention and Oscar Wilde was preparing to publish his first and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.…
Microsoft Inks First Renewable Energy Deal in India
Microsoft has this week announced that it has inked its first-ever renewable energy deal in India, a small solar Power Purchase Agreement with Atria Power in the Indian state of Karnataka. Announced on Tuesday, Microsoft confirmed that it had signed…
Dutch PM Calls for More Ambitious 2030 EU Climate Target
The Dutch prime minister has urged the EU to “raise the bar” on climate action by adopting a new emissions reduction target for 2030 of 55 per cent below 1990 levels. The high-profile intervention comes shortly after calls by Swedish…
Researchers Unveil Several Ways to Limit Global Warming to 1.5°C by 2100
A group of researchers led by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis has used new modelling scenarios to showcase several ways with which to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C by 2100. According to their research, “Scenarios towards limiting global…