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US Wind Power Added Jobs more than 9 Times Faster than Overall US Economy
New figures published by the American Wind Energy Association show that the US wind energy industry added jobs at more than 9 times faster than the overall US economy in 2016, reaching 102,500 jobs in all, helping to install over…
India Will Become World’s 3rd Largest Solar Market This Year
India is set to overtake Japan as the world’s third-largest solar power market this year, a Taiwanese research firm has predicted. According to EnergyTrend, the global solar PV demand is expected to remain stable at 74 gigawatts this year while…
5 Ways China Is Becoming the Global Leader on Climate Change
Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt called the Paris agreement a “bad deal.” He claimed China has made no significant efforts to curb carbon pollution, while the U.S. has sacrificed jobs to meet the terms…
Mark van Wees: Support for Serbia through IPA project
In mid-September last year the representatives of the GFA Consulting Group took participation at the conference in the Serbian Chamber of Commerce where the beginning of work on the Strategy on Climate Change with the Action plan was presented. GFA…
How Wind Energy Helps to Conserve Water
The world is entering a new energy era, where consumption of renewable energy sources seems to be the only way to conserve nature and save life on the planet. By now, everybody knows that the supply of fossil fuels is…
World Abandoning Coal in Dramatic Style Raises Hope of Avoiding Dangerous Global Warming, Says Report
As Donald Trump pledges to put coal miners back to work in the United States, the rest of the world appears to have suddenly started moving in the opposite direction, abandoning the dirtiest of fossil fuels after 10 years of…
CO2 Emissions Stay Same for Third Year in Row – Despite Global Economy Growing
Carbon dioxide emissions from energy have not increased for three years in a row even as the global economy grew, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said. Global emissions from the energy sector were 32.1bn tonnes in 2016, the same…