ESG
ESG funds: ESMA finds ESG fund names boost inflows by 8.9% in one year
ESG funds can boost inflows by 8.9% through ESG fund names, ESMA reports. New rules aim to curb greenwashing starting in 2025
Editorial Team•28 April 2025
Utilities
Maxi blackout in Spain and Portugal:…
Maxi blackout in Spain and Portugal causes widespread outages, transportation chaos, and…
Editorial Team•28 April 2025
Industry Spotlight
Expanding balcony power plants cost-effectively
SOL•THOR, my-PV’s DC Power Manager for water heating, wins German Design Award…
Editorial Team•28 April 2025
Circular Economy
Light and functional, the recyclable wind turbines awarded in the USA
Weighing 41% less and representing an excellent mix of materials, the recyclable wind turbines from ORNL…
Editorial Team•19 October 2024
Mobility & Transportation
A tax for frequent flyers? With 50 euros per trip, it cuts…
A group of NGOs, led by the New Economics Foundation and Stay Grounded, is proposing a…
Editorial Team•18 October 2024
Energy
Solar panels on roofs and microclimate: let’s clarify
According to a new international study, the widespread adoption of solar panels on urban rooftops could…
Editorial Team•18 October 2024
Climate Change
Global carbon capture capacity remains stalled: only 51 million tons of CO2…
The CCS Institute has updated its global monitoring of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. While…
Editorial Team•18 October 2024
Environmental policies
Stop incentives for fossil fuel boilers, the EU guidelines
The European Commission has published a guidance document to help countries phase out, starting in 2025,…
Editorial Team•17 October 2024
Finance
Immediately triple global investments in renewables, a gap of 3.8 TW is…
Irena updates estimates on the clean energy trajectory toward the goals set for COP28. Only solar…
Editorial Team•17 October 2024
Climate Change
For Europe, adaptation to climate change is still a black hole
Report from the European Court of Auditors on actions for climate crisis adaptation. States provide generic…
Editorial Team•17 October 2024
Policy and Affairs
The peak of all fossil fuels is leading us into an unprecedented…
The International Energy Agency updates its forecasts for 2030. The peak of fossil fuels within this…
Editorial Team•16 October 2024
Markets
Grids and storage are the challenges to triple renewables by 2030
The International Energy Agency outlines the main bottlenecks to achieving the renewable energy and energy efficiency…
Editorial Team•16 October 2024
IT
UK Approves Drones for Inspecting Offshore Wind Turbines
The UK Civil Aviation Authority has announced the names of the projects that will take part…
Editorial Team•15 October 2024
Energy
The elastic polymer solar cell that stretches like rubber
The Japanese research institute RIKEN has developed an organic solar cell that can be stretched up…
Editorial Team•15 October 2024
Pollution
To reduce plastic pollution, we need to produce less and tax packaging
The OECD publishes a report proposing to reduce plastic pollution by 96% by 2040 with draconian…