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European Commission sets new 2030 climate goals
The European Union trimmed its long-term climate and energy goals on January 22, proposing less tight targets than previously amid rougher economic conditions and the necessity to curtail increasing energy costs.
read more... 24/01/2014
Npower: British energy bills set to rocket by more than £200 by 2020
British energy bills are expected to increase over £200 by 2020, unless energy efficiency measures are embraced, driven by costs of government green policies, according to a controversial report recently released by the energy supply Npower. It reiterated that households should take more initiatives to insulate their homes, cutting in such a way the bill to £1,240.
read more... 23/01/2014
IRENA: World renewable energy share on track to double by 2030
The share of renewables in the global energy mix is forecasted to increase to as much as 36 percent by 2030, according to a roadmap published by the International Renewable Energy Agency, called REmap 2030.
read more... 22/01/2014
UK: because of its high coal consumption, carbon emissions increased considerably
According to a report published by the Environmental Research Letters journal, based on size of population, and if global carbon dioxide emissions are allocated using per capita calculations, UK is more responsible for global warming than the USA, Canada, Russia or even China, because of its historic consumption of coal.
read more... 21/01/2014
China: oil demand to lowest level in 5 years
Because of easing economic growth, China's oil consumption in 2013 registered the slowest growth in five years. According to Reuters calculations, China's oil demand grew 1.6% in 2013, the weakest yearly growth in five years, while in December, when it burned roughly 10.06 million barrels per day of oil, it registered a decrease of about 7.5% in comparison to the same period of a year before. For the whole of 2013, oil demand was about 9.78 million bpd, about 150,000 bpd higher than 2012.
read more... 20/01/2014