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  • Breakthrough in solar energy: ten times more effective solar power may be available in three years
    2008

     

    The breakthrough scientists have been waiting for to make solar power cheaper, more efficient--and therefore a more effective replacement for traditional energy sources--has been made by a group of MIT researchers.
  • James Hansen says Copenhagen approach "fundamentally wrong" would be better to "reassess"
    2009

     

    James Hansen, one of the world\'s foremost climatologists, told the Guardian today that he believes the Copenhagen talks are flawed to the point where failure of the talks may be the best way forward. \"The approach that is being talked about is so fundamentally wrong that it would be better to reassess,\" Hansen said.
  • Africa eyes geothermal power
    2008

     

    Geothermal — the tapping of steam from hot underground rocks — could provide a source of clean, renewable energy in parts of Africa where electricity is currently limited, according to an assessment by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
  • Green New Deal will spark global economy, create jobs
    2008

     

    A \"Global Green New Deal\" that focuses the world economy \"towards investments in clean technologies and \'natural\' infrastructure such as forests and soils is the best bet for real growth, combating climate change and triggering an employment boom,\" according to a new initiative led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
  • US subsidies of oil and coal more than double the subsidies of renewable energy
    2009

     

    During the fiscal years of 2002-2008 the United States handed out subsidies to fossil fuel industries to a tune of 72 billion dollars, while renewable energy subsidies, during the same period, reached 29 billion dollars.
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