United Nations
- Shrinking biodiversity poses major risk to the future of global food and agriculture, landmark UN report shows February 22, 2019With the biodiversity of plants cultivated for food shrinking, the global population’s health, livelihoods and environment are under severe threat. This warning from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) comes as the UN agency releases a new report – the first of its kind – on the state of the world’s biodiversity in food and […]
- UN announces roadmap to Climate Summit in 2019, a ‘critical year’ for climate action February 14, 20192019 is a critical year, the “last chance” for the international community to take effective action on climate change, General Assembly President Maria Espinosa said on Thursday, during a briefing to announce the UN’s roadmap to the Climate Summit in September.
- Guterres underlines climate action urgency, as UN weather agency confirms record global warming February 6, 2019In the wake of data released by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), showing the past four years were officially the ‘four warmest on record,’ UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for urgent climate action and increased ambition, ahead of his climate summit in September.
BBC Science & Environment
- Great Barrier Reef: One million tonnes of sludge to be dumped February 22, 2019Australia agrees to discard of one million tonnes of waste in world's largest coral reef.
- Virgin's Unity plane rockets skyward February 22, 2019Scottish pilot Dave Mackay pushes Virgin Galactic's rocket plane faster and higher than it's ever been.
- Botswana mulls lifting elephant hunting ban February 22, 2019A government report recommends lifting a four-year ban on hunting elephants.
Renewable Energy World
- Siemens launches home energy storage battery February 22, 2019The Junelight Smart Battery is now available in Germany and will be launched in Austria in April 2019
- FERC takes a firm stand in PG&E bankruptcy filing February 22, 2019The California-based utility requested that a federal bankruptcy court prevent FERC from enforcing the conditions of the more than 380 power purchase agreements (PPAs) that the utility may want to exit under its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.
- Direct Energy signs PPA for 75-MW solar array in California February 22, 2019California-based solar developer Sunpin Solar said that Direct Energy Business, a subsidiary of Centrica PLC, signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the full output of the recently completed 96.75-MW DC / 74.8-MW AC ColGreen North Shore Power Plant.