To meet even the less stringent of the two Paris goals, the global energy system needs to be fully decarbonized by 2060, despite an expected tripling of global GDP during the same period. This requires a more than seven-fold increase in the deployment of renewables compared to the growth that we have seen over the past decade, with renewables comprising two-thirds of global energy supply by 2050.
Décarboner l’économie est un besoin vital pour échapper aux conséquences désastreuses d’un réchauffement climatique. C’est dans cette perspective que s’inscrit la tarification du carbone. Il ne s’agit pas seulement de produire de l’électricité sans les fossiles, mais avant tout d’un effort d’efficience (50 % des réductions d’émission), d’une autre urbanisation, d’un autre usage des sols : bref, tous les processus industriels et agricoles sont concernés.
Italy plans to phase out coal power plants by 2025, the country's industry minister said during a presentation of a new energy strategy on Tuesday (24 October), joining a growing trend of moving away from coal in the EU.
The European Parliament and several member states, including France, have excluded new coal plants from future financing under the EU’s reformed carbon market. EURACTIV France reports.
Selon Christian Couturier, président de l'association négaWatt, la voiture électrique ne révolutionnera pas le secteur des transports en France. En prenant en compte le cycle de vie des voitures actuelles, il plébiscite plutôt l'usage du bioGNV, une solution majeure pour envisager la mobilité de demain.
The energy infrastructure that we inherited from the 20th century is one dominated by fossil fuels and uranium, mined in relatively few localities in the world. The distribution and refining of these fuels is tightly held by a few large corporations. Electricity generation typically occurs in plants that hold local or regional monopolies, with vast profit potential. While gasoline is burned in millions of vehicles, the distribution system remains within the control of a few corporations, which often have regional or national oligopoly or monopoly control.
The German city is working to shake off the coal dust of the industrial Ruhr, but will green tourism be profitable enough to regain its former economic strength?
Decarbonisation of energy systems requires deep structural change. The article "Tracking sectoral progress in the deep decarbonisation of energy systems in Europe" proposes a methodology to track the decarbonisation of energy systems of the European Union (EU). Furthermore, the authors analyse the decarbonisation rates in electricity, residential, transport. The results show that the EU has made significant progress in decarbonising its energy systems.
EXCLUSIVE / The European Commission is preparing an update of its low-carbon economy roadmap for 2050, acknowledging that the bloc’s current target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions at least 80% by mid-century are insufficient, EURACTIV.com has learned.
Slovenian Energy Agency has published a public call for the selection of projects eligible to receive incentives for electricity production from renewable energy sources and high-efficiency co-generation (CHP) facilities.
Finland is set to embrace a decarbonised future by increasing carbon taxes and introducing laws in 2018 that will begin to phase out the use of coal, with more nuclear capacity waiting to offer an alternative fuel source.
The CrowdFundRES partners expose the state of play and potential of crowdfunding in Europe The European PV solar energy conference EU PVSEC was taking place at the RAI Convention Centre in Amsterdam gathering a great number of relevant actors involved in the Solar sector to explore the current trends in solar technology and market deployment. … Continue reading Crowdfunding renewable energy projects in Europe: a reality and bright perspectives
Mis en place dès 2005, le marché du carbone européen suscitait d’ambitieuses promesses et apparaissait comme l’élément pionnier d’un système à vocation planétaire. S’il a effectivement permis de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre en Europe depuis sa mise en place, les expert-e-s s’accordent à dire qu’il ne permettra pas, dans ses modalités actuelles, de respecter l’objectif fixé par l’Accord de Paris d’une limitation de la hausse de la température moyenne en-deçà des 2 degrés d’ici la fin du 21ème siècle.
Campaigners have warned about the environmental dangers of bioenergy, saying burning wood is not low-carbon. However, forests can – and must – be managed in a sustainable way that maintains or even increases the carbon stock, writes Tony Juniper.
French recyclers were in Brussels last week with a big ask – EU regulators must reward the whole recycling value chain for preventing emissions of global warming gases, they claimed, a message received with caution by the European Commission, which points to a lack of data.
A carbon “safety reserve” aimed at helping poorer EU member states cut emissions in the transport, building and agriculture sectors will be accessible only for countries that reach their 2030 greenhouse gas reduction targets early.
The first Polish feature film about climate change and the inevitable energy revolution. The film is directed by documentary filmmaker Łukasz Bluszcz, an
Within the EU, the acknowledgment of the need to phase out fossil fuel subsidies as a key part of the global effort to stem climate change has materialised in multiple policy decisions including the Europe 2020 Strategy and the recent EU 2030 Energy and Climate governance framework.
Yet, in spite of these policy pledges, a report released today shows that fossil fuels projects, in Europe and around the world, are still being enabled by billions in European public money.
The city of Oslo surprised observers last year by announcing plans to introduce a “carbon budget” with the objective of halving its global warming emissions by 2020 and becoming carbon neutral by 2030. The city’s Mayor, Raymond Johansen, told EURACTIV.com how he intends to achieve this ambitious objective.
Sustainability is one of the main topics of the Housing and the Innovation Agenda that Aedes- the Association of Dutch social housing corporations- members agreed upon before the summer. In the coming years, they will make their dwellings more energy efficient and increase the pace. On a short term basis, the sector wants to attain an average energy label B for the total stock of social dwellings by 2021. This calls for an acceleration of investment in solar panels, insulation and heating network connections.
A new report from the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES), “Fiscal policy for decarbonization of energy in Europe”, has some important messages for policymakers in Europe. The author, David Robinson, notes first of all that electrification is viewed by most observers as the main instrument for decarbonization of the European energy system.
Le ministre de la transition écologique et solidaire a présenté un projet de loi interdisant la recherche et la production de pétrole et de gaz sur le sol français d’ici à 2040.
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