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EiD was pleased to read the letter signed by investors/scientists and sent to Dr. Fatih Birol, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Prior to this letter, in 2018 EiD published a post which compares the energy demand in the 2018 Efficient World Scenario included in the IEA’s flagship energy efficiency publication entitled… 
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The French government is sticking to its previously announced target of shutting down France's remaining coal power plants by 2022 as a report by grid operator RTE on Wednesday confirmed it could do without the coal generators under certain conditions.
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Weil die Erwachsenen den Klimawandel ignoriert hätten, wollen sie nun handeln: Vertreter der „Fridays for Future“-Bewegung haben in Berlin konkrete Forderungen an die deutsche Politik formuliert – allen voran den Kohleausstieg bis 2030.
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It’s crucial for the energy transformation that multilateral investors show decarbonisation to be a viable business model
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This document aims to help civil society organisations (CSOs) and local regional authorities (LRAs) to better understand the European legislation and policy in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the bloc and ultimately mitigate the most dangerous consequences of climate change. It will present an overview of these international climate negotiations as context to EU legislation; it will detail the EU’s 2020 and 2030 climate and energy frameworks and explains how these link to the overarching international climate goals and the EU’s commitments within these.
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With elections in May, the balance of opinion in Parliament is a climate policy risk factor on the minds of many in Brussels. The national draft 10-year energy plans, just in to the Commission, project widespread growth in costlier renewables. But populists who see climate as a globalist rather than nationalist-first agenda may prove hard to bring on side …
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Technology choices and policies are available to create a zero-carbon energy system in Europe by 2050, keep the economy competitive and secure a favourable deal for citizens, concludes a podcast by EU scream produced in conjunction with FORESIGHT Climate & Energy.
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As the 2019 EU elections loom and a new European Commission takes office, climate action can become a key driver of a reformed EU project for more solidarity, protection and innovation, writes Luca Bergamaschi.
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'Slovakia's Erin Brockovich' Zuzana Čaputová will promote a green jobs agenda against the country's traditional backing of heavy industry
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While Germany and Eastern European countries continue to oppose raising the EU’s 40% emission reduction target for 2030, a new analysis insists the bloc will actually manage at least 50% cuts under a business-as-usual scenario taking into account the latest coal phase-out pledges.
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Europe’s electricity and gas operators are currently working on a joint network plan based on a carbon budget which includes zero-emission scenarios for 2050. “And that automatically means there will be no fossil gas in the mix by then,” Jan Ingwersen told EURACTIV in an interview.
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Confidential documents prepared in advance of a two-day EU summit in Brussels have exposed an East-West divide in Europe on climate change, with Germany siding with Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in their refusal to commit to climate neutrality by 2050.
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I don’t expect much joy in writing about climate breakdown. On one side, there is grief and fear; on the other side, machines. I became an environmentalist because I love the living world, but I spend much of my life thinking about electricity, industrial processes and civil engineering. Technological change is essential, but to a natural historian it often feels cold and distancing. Today, however, I can write about something that thrills me: the most exciting field of research I have covered in years.
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Fife Council wanted to understand how a community in Fife could reduce its carbon footprint by 80%. Through joint decision making with the local community we found out which low carbon heat and electricity solutions would be most suitable, and how much it would cost. The purpose of this project was to help the local community understand their energy needs, and how it could be supplied locally in a low carbon manner.
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Europe must adopt an ambitious industrial policy aligned with its climate agenda by investing in clean technologies, and introducing a carbon tariff at the EU’s external border in order to protect industries against environmental dumping, says Bas Eickhout, the lead candidate for the Greens in the European elections.
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The letter’s signatories – experts, business leaders, politicians and more – call on the IEA to make the 1.5°C target the central scenario in its highly influential annual World Energy Outlook. At present, its “New Policies Scenario” puts us on track for between 2.7°C and 3.3°C. That’s a problem, because too many energy decision-makers cite …
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Frome Town Council is pressing ahead with its plan to make Frome a carbon neutral town by 2030. The council declared a ‘climate emergency’ in December last year, pledging to explore ways to avoid using fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas.
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The European Union has set a target of increasing renewables in heating and cooling by 1.3% every year starting in 2021. Given the pervasiveness of gas heat, it may be a struggle.
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Who doesn’t enjoy Copenhagen when you visit? But the city offers so much more than just a tourist destination, according to an article by Somini Sengupta in an article in the New York Times. What are your views? Copenhagen Wants to Show How Cities Can Fight Climate Change Copenhagen intends to, and fast. By…
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A cross-party parliamentary group wants carbon budgets, a higher tax and green agriculture support to reverse the country's lax policies
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Garantir un accès universel à l’énergie est un enjeu crucial aujourd'hui. Pour certains scientifiques, c’est tout le modèle actuel basé sur la surexploitation des ressources fossiles qui est obsolète.
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March 28, 2019 4:34 AM
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Deux entreprises de Montpellier s’associent pour proposer une électricité 100% renouvelable 24h/24, au même prix que l’électricité conventionnelle. Une tendance qui devrait séduire de plus en plus de consommateurs.
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Young people are striking to demand bold action to keep fossil fuels in the ground and stop climate breakdown.
Disrupt Fossil Finance Action Trainings are our response to this call.
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Oslo, Rotterdam and Copenhagen are showing how cooperation with private sector actors is essential to reducing the carbon footprint of transport-related procurement activities.
