France issues climate draft to guide shift from fossil fuels
Hosts France issued a 31-page draft text of a deal to combat climate change on Saturday, hoping to secure adoption within hours from 195 nations and mark a turning point for the global economy away from fossil fuels. Officials have been meeting the French capital ...
China, India can drive a renewable revolution
Forget climate change — it just makes economic sense for China and India to embrace renewable energy sources.
'Monster' El Nino could usher in decade of more and stronger events
In Buffalo, New York, it hasn't snowed yet this year. A Duluth, Minnesota, newspaper reported that the temperature was 40 degrees above zero, not below. And in Miami, beachgoers are staying indoors during what's already the third-wettest December in local history. What's going on ...
Once a fixture, climate skeptics say they are being stifled at Paris summit
To be a climate change skeptic in Paris this week means facing heavy odds. Arrayed against them are thousands of environmentalists, scientists and even big business leaders who have come to U.N.-sponsored climate talks to pledge their commitment to cutting the man-made emissions that an ...
A lotta hot air: Loquacious leaders make for a long day at climate summit
Clearly His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco is unaccustomed to being told to stop talking. Filling in for his older brother, King Mohammed VI, the prince's opening remarks at the Paris climate conference went on and on, his hands shuffling a thick sheaf ...
The capitals of the world's two most populous nations, China and India, were blanketed in hazardous, choking smog Monday as climate change talks began in Paris, where leaders of both countries are among the participants. Beijing maintained an "orange" pollution alert, the second-highest level, on ...
Climate — the new danger to our well-being
The world needs much stronger emission cuts than whatever comes out of the upcoming Paris talks on climate change.
Rise of carbon emissions almost stalled in 2014, study shows
A rise in world carbon dioxide emissions almost stalled last year for the first time in almost two decades without a recession, in a promising step toward cleaner economic growth, a study showed on Wednesday. World carbon emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production ...
Japan pushes clean-coal technology; hurdles abound
For all the talk of a solar boom in Japan, coal still has a future, and potentially a big one at that. Japan's government and industry are backing emerging coal technologies they say are less damaging to the environment. While they are pushing the ...
Navigating the energy revolution
The energy sector is going to be unrecognizable in just a few years as dramatic technological, economic and geopolitical changes reshape commercial relationships worldwide.
Power from human waste could light millions of homes: U.N. University
Biogas from human waste has the potential to generate electricity for millions of homes while improving health and protecting the environment, a United Nations University institute has said. The biogas potentially available from all the human waste in the world would be the equivalent of ...
Besides boosting the use of renewable energy, the government's review of the feed-in tariff system should also correct the overreliance on solar power among the various forms of alternative sources.
