If you’re wondering whether your stock market investments are damaging the Earth, maybe the time has come to understand why many organisations are divesting from this sector and why “fossil free” indexes exist. The latest example comes from Australia in the form of the Fossil Free Index created by Thomson Reuters and Future Super –
CDP report reveals the most virtuous cities in using renewable energies, whilst moving away from fossil fuels. Results are surprising.
Enough with coal, oil and natural gas. From now on Hawaii will only build plants that generate electricity using renewable sources and will cut all funding for fossil fuels. The aim: to be powered by 100% renewables by 2045. The announcement was made by state governor David Ige, electrical engineer, at the Asia Pacific Resilience
The government pledged to reduce emissions and for this reason Brazil is the first major developing country to adopt such measures to tackle global warming.
Radiations are below the limitis, as the studies carried out by professor Hayano and the students living in the Fukushima district prove.
Datacentres would be responsible for 2% of the greenhouse gas emissions globally, data show.
According to the environmental NGO Greenpeace it is possible phasing out fossil fuels by 2050, without economic barriers.
Using the Ebola epidemic to promote coal is pretty far fetched. And yet, that’s exactly that Peabody Energy did. During a conference the American coal company, which has mining interests around the world, linked coal to Ebola in order to promote its own product as a response to Africa’s devastating health crisis. The PR exercise
The collapse in coal prices is real. The “Isaac Plains” coking coal mine in Australia, valued at 860 Australian dollars (about $631 million) three years ago has been sold for $1. According to Bloomberg, the Brazilian mining group Vale SA and Japan’s Sumitomo Corp. offloaded the “Isaac Plains” mine for just $1, selling it to
Since 2012, M-KOPA provides a kit made of a solar panel, LED lights, and charging USB. Everything at the cost of a telephone subscription.
