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December 8, 2022 2:27 AM
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Boosting the EU’s ambition on renewable energy could halve gas imports and save billions of euros.
A “small step up” in ambition for renewables would make a massive difference, according to energy think tank Ember.
Adopting a target for renewables to make up 45 per cent - instead of 40 per cent - of Europe’s energy mix by the end of the decade would save €43 billion in 2030, it calculated.
In total, €200 billion of gas costs could be avoided between 2025 and 2030. Between these dates, Germany alone would save €49.7 billion, Italy €29.9 billion and the Netherlands €20.2 billion.
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November 29, 2022 9:25 AM
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Policymakers, businesses and households alike are struggling to cope with skyrocketing prices, which are fanning fears of irreparable damages to the country’s prized industries, economic hardships for its citizens, and social unrest. The long-term impact on the country’s landmark energy transition remains uncertain, as Germany redoubles efforts to roll out renewables, but also bets on liquefied natural gas (LNG), a temporary revival of coal plants and a limited runtime extension for its remaining nuclear plants to weather the storm.
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October 20, 2022 4:16 AM
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Greece has been able to meet the entire county’s energy demand with renewable sources on 7 October 2022. Renewables now make up the biggest share in the country’s energy mix, overtaking natural gas, a..
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October 19, 2022 10:28 AM
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The EU as a whole is aiming for 82 per cent clean power by the end of the decade but some member states are looking to go one step further.
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July 28, 2022 9:39 AM
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Pollutions, perte de biodiversité, changement climatique, mais aussi maladies chroniques liées à l’alimentation et à l’environnement : autant de problématiques à aborder de façon transversale.
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June 15, 2022 7:40 AM
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Minister Zorana Mihajlović signed an agreement with GIZ on the Promotion of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Serbia.
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May 31, 2022 2:55 AM
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COLUMN. The measure comes against a background of skyrocketing inflation that has rekindled the debate on inequality in the United Kingdom, as journalist Jean-Michel Bezat explains.
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May 9, 2022 4:22 AM
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Last week, Ireland’s Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, formally inaugurated the country’s first large scale solar farm. The site is located near Ashford in County Wicklow and it hosts more than 30,000 solar panels, which will directly connect to the electricity grid.
This project represents a significant departure from Ireland’s previous renewable energy strategy, which focused heavily on on-shore wind turbines, marking the Millvale solar farm as the first of its kind for the Republic.
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January 27, 2022 6:27 AM
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Alok Sharma urges countries to deliver on the commitments made in the Glasgow Climate Pact. In his first major speech since COP26, Alok Sharma gave a speech at Chatham House outlining the Presidency aims for this coming year. Sharma reflected on the commitments secured at COP26 and the historic Glasgow Climate Pact signed by almost 200 countries at the summit last year. Sharma has also set out his agenda to turn ambition into action, as we approach COP27 in Sharm-El Sheikh in November. Alok Sharma, COP President, said: “All in all, there is no doubt that the commitments we secured at COP26 were historic.”
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January 19, 2022 3:48 AM
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The findings contained in this report suggest that decarbonisation in new buildings in the EU is happening too slowly and inconsistently. A reasonable conclusion to draw from this is that Europe’s 2050 decarbonisation objectives will be at high risk unless MS building policies can be made to provide stronger support. Government policies differ in several important ways when it comes to “moving the needle” on new building standards, both in terms of being consistent with the NZEB definition as laid out in the EPBD, and in terms of ambition levels on building-sector decarbonisation.
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January 5, 2022 4:24 AM
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Après des mois d’hésitation, la Commission européenne a enfin présenté un projet de labellisation des investissements nécessaires à la transition écologique. L’exercice est périlleux, car il n’existe pas de consensus au sein des Etats membres de l’Union européenne sur les moyens de parvenir en 2050 à la neutralité carbone, l’objectif que se sont fixé les Vingt-Sept dans le cadre de l’accord de Paris sur le climat. Pour contourner l’obstacle, Bruxelles fait preuve de pragmatisme afin que chaque pays puisse tenir cet agenda en fonction de ses propres choix énergétiques.
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December 15, 2021 5:36 AM
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During an exchange with French parliamentarians this week, the EU Commission vice-president in charge of the Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, said Brussels “will support, sustain and assist those member states that make this choice” of using nuclear power.
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December 6, 2021 9:56 AM
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Scotland's new National Planning Framework has good climate policies but also backs a polluting Peterhead power station
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November 29, 2022 9:57 AM
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Britain’s cities need urgent transformation in the next decade and beyond if the country is to meet its 2050 net zero targets and create cleaner, safer spaces for citizens, according to a major study from E.ON and the UK Green Building Council.
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November 24, 2022 3:56 AM
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Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa has announced that his country has an upgraded sustainability transition goal, being carbon-neutral five years earlier than the Green Deal deadline of 2050. His..
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October 20, 2022 3:51 AM
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Britons will soon receive practical information on how to reduce their energy usage in winter.
Delivering his keynote speech at EnergyUK’s annual conference, Jonathan Brearley, Ofgem Chief Executive, said: “We will shortly be launching a campaign to explain the support that is available, on how to reduce energy consumption and what customers should expect from their providers.
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October 4, 2022 4:48 AM
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Member states have pledged to redistribute the energy sector's surplus profits to low income customers
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July 26, 2022 3:58 AM
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Brussels doesn’t have the votes to pass sweeping emergency powers. A group of European Union countries mainly from the south has already shot down Brussels' bid to grant itself the power to ration gas around the bloc less than 24 hours after the debut of the proposal Wednesday.
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June 1, 2022 10:03 AM
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Climate change: UK’s net zero target is under threat because there’s no plan to pay for it
The UK government’s plan for achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is at a serious risk of sinking before it’s been fully launched. With the Treasury having rejected a request by MPs to come up with a “clear funding plan”, there’s now every chance that an already bad plan will turn into no plan at all.
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May 23, 2022 3:36 AM
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Germany will introduce a monthly pass, at the price of just 9 euros, that will be valid for all public transport, including trains, subway and buses. The decision came as a response to rising fuel pri..
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May 9, 2022 4:19 AM
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On 5 May, the Danish Parliament officially approved a new law, allowing the country’s 98 municipalities to ban the use of wood-burning stoves and fireplaces produced before June 2008 in areas with district heating or natural gas. In doing so, the government hopes to significantly reduce air pollution and decrease the number of deaths caused by it.
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January 25, 2022 9:39 AM
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Doter la France d’un parc nucléaire pour réduire sa dépendance aux importations de pétrole, après la crise pétrolière de 1973, tel était l’objectif du président Valéry Giscard d’Estaing quand il a lancé, en 1974, un programme qui allait aboutir à la construction de 45 centrales de production d’électricité d’origine nucléaire.
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January 18, 2022 9:43 AM
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Kate Connolly writes on The Guardian website about the call of the new German climate minister for a threefold increase in the speed with which carbon dioxide emissions are reduced. The minister, Robert Habeck, warned Germany was currently “dramatically behind” in its aim to achieve a goal for 80% of energy to come from renewable sources by 2030, as well as for a 65% reduction in greenhouse gases compared with 1990 levels, and to become climate neutral by 2045. Currently about 42% of energy in Germany comes from renewables.
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January 4, 2022 8:42 AM
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It is about time the UK government got to grips with retrofitting existing housing to scale up home energy efficiency across the country. One way to do this would be to establish a one-stop shop on every high street; offering trusted advice, recommendations for trained suppliers, and help with grants and other incentives. Our struggling town centres could do with the community buzz of a genuinely useful venue and there are plenty of empty commercial properties to choose from. It could provide employment, generate training locally, encourage re-skilling of workforces, and help us reach our climate goals. Plus our houses might actually get warmer.
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December 15, 2021 5:12 AM
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While nations have agreed to a global target aimed at avoiding the most catastrophic impacts of climate change, fossil fuel and other greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise when they should be falling. And there is no formal organisation tasked with making sure individual nations are on track. “There are no ‘police’ to check; this is a weakness of the process,” climatologist Corinne Le Quere told AFP.
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