Latest news
EU seals carbon market reform to speed cuts in greenhouse gases
The world’s first major carbon trading system has since 2005 forced power plants and factories to buy permits when they emit CO2, and has cut emissions from those sectors by 43%.
read more... 27/04/2023
Port of Rotterdam plans 1GW green hydrogen site
The Port of Rotterdam Authority is developing an 11-hectare (ha) site on the Maasvlakte that will be suitable for a green hydrogen plant capable of generating up to 1GW.
read more... 20/04/2023
G7 to step up moves to renewables, zero carbon
Energy and environment ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) wealthy nations vowed yesterday to work to hasten the shift toward cleaner, renewable energy, but set no timetable for phasing out coal-fired power plants as they wrapped up two days of talks in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo.
read more... 17/04/2023
.jpg)
Norway parliament to discuss proposals to stop electrification of major LNG plant
Norway's parliament will on Thursday debate proposals to delay, or stop, a plan to electrify Western Europe's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, in the latest example of controversy over cutting CO2 emissions in the Nordic country.
read more... 14/04/2023
Au revoir, Germany’s ‘Atomkraftwerke’
On April 15, Germany will shut down its last remaining nuclear power plants, marking the end of the country’s more than 60-year foray into nuclear power and a long-time era of Franco-German cooperation.
read more... 12/04/2023