Green Times

European Union energy ministers announced during an informal meeting Saturday that they had been labouring for 18 months under the false impression that an EU plan to fight global warming included an obligation to develop controversial biofuels.Documents issued by the EU since the ambitious energy and climate plan was unveiled in January 2007 have consistently […]

Vast grasslands provide a promising future for clean energy in China, with rich reserves of solar and wind power and great biofuels potential, experts at an international conference here said. Zhang Yingjun, a professor who specializes in grassland research at Beijing-based China Agricultural University, said to develop liquid fuels (mainly ethanol, at […]

“China and India are taking action to address the challenge of developing their economies and people’s futures in a climate-challenged world. It is time for some developed countries to stop using China and India as the excuses for their own inaction and get down to business as time is running out for the planet,” Ailun […]

Google’s motto is “Don’t be evil.” But when it comes to its environmental impact, some think the company can’t live up to its own hype.Now that it has unseated Microsoft as Earth’s most recognizable and influential technology behemoth, Google has gone from a crowd-favorite upstart to an octopus multinational beneath the bull’s-eye. As such, its […]

Labelled a “green gold rush,” global investment in renewable energy surged some 60 per cent to $148 billion in 2007Global investment in renewable energy surged 60 per cent to $148 billion (74.3 billion) last year and is still accelerating despite the slowdown in the wider economy, according to the United Nations.
Wind energy attracted the biggest […]

The Indian government pledged Monday to devote more attention to renewable energy, water conservation and preserving natural resources in the country’s first climate change plan, but it did not set concrete goals or pledge to cap harmful emissions.During a speech here on Monday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh acknowledged that climate change was a dangerous problem, […]

Scottish and Southern Energy has announced a deal with the operator of six ports in Scotland and a major port in London to develop up to 150 MW of on-site renewable energy projects.The energy supplier will work with Forth Ports to invest in generation, distribution and supply of renewable energy for the port sites themselves […]

The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) today announced an “incentive” of Rs 0.50 per unit of wind-power fed by the independent power producers into the grid.The generation based incentive (GBI) is aimed at increasing the quantum of grid interactive renewable power.
“The investors, apart from getting the tariff (as determined by the state regulatory […]

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Friday that the country did not need to adopt nuclear energy to address climate change.The centre-left leader’s stance reverses the policy of his conservative predecessor John Howard, who announced plans to embrace the next generation of power plans before he was voted out of office last November.
Rudd said his […]

Thousands of new wind turbines could be built across the UK as part of a £100bn investment in renewable energy that could create hundreds of thousands of new “green collar” jobs, Gordon Brown announced today.The prime minister unveiled what he described as a “green revolution” and “the most dramatic change in energy policy since the […]