NEWS: Cheap fossil fuels could thwart development of renewables, says global lender in economic outlook
NEWS: Nuclear companies meet to discuss licensing the controversial modular reactors set to cost billions of dollars and be built near towns
NEWS: Former climate minister and envoy says he will advise new initiative to develop centre-right climate and energy policies, claiming greens are being wedded to ‘same answers’
ANALYSIS: Record investments in wind and solar are transforming our energy landscape, as this presentation from Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s explains
NEWS: Delhi and Brussels summit dominated by terror threat, but agree new range of measures to allow India greater access to finance and green technologies
NEWS: Further policy interventions required, say authors of UN report, if world is to move away from oil, gas, coal and embrace low emission future
NEWS: Transition towards a grid based on fickle renewables is messing with Poland’s electricity markets
NEWS: Early figures show emissions from energy sector stayed flat in 2015 on renewables surge, says influential forecaster
NEWS; That’s ten times what Brussels green innovation fund pays out, says NGO in call for reform of EU emissions trading scheme
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NEWS: Carbon pollution declines for second year on falling coal consumption, says statistics agency
CRIB NOTES 29 FEB – 4 MAR: FSB flags climate risk, Buffett gives a prime example, US gears up for Super Tuesday and island states lead Paris ratification push
NEWS: Philanthropist says we need ‘energy miracle’ to to combat climate change and poverty in annual letter
NEWS: New ‘Accord’ published on Tuesday avoids direct mention of climate change, but makes economic case for renewables and warns of future extreme weather events
NEWS: Republicans and Democrats look at how wind and solar can help remote communities reduce reliance on diesel imports
NEWS: Booming market grew 27% in 2015 edging past European Union for first time, says industry group
NEWS: Interstate energy “highways” would send wind and solar-generated electricity to where and when it’s needed throughout America
NEWS: Smart grids, roll-up solar panels and wind offer safer forms of energy for troops in hostile environments, says world’s largest military alliance in annual report
DAVOS 2016: Governments urged to radically boost energy investment under African Development Bank strategy to bring light to 645 million
ANALYSIS: Crashing hydrocarbon prices are helping consumers and hurting exporters, but won’t halt momentum for clean energy investment