United Nations
- 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.
- World in grip of ‘high impact weather’ as US freezes, Australia sizzles, parts of South America deluged February 1, 2019“High impact weather” has gripped much of the world so far this year, the UN weather agency, WMO, reported on Friday, with “dangerous and extreme cold in North America, record high heat and wildfires in Australia, heavy rains in parts of South America, and heavy snow on the Alps and Himalayas.
BBC Science & Environment
- Israel's Beresheet Moon mission gets under way February 22, 2019The privately backed Beresheet robot leaves Earth on a mission to land on the lunar surface in April.
- Hayabusa-2: Japan spacecraft touches down on asteroid February 22, 2019The Hayabusa-2 probe descended to the Ryugu asteroid to try to collect a sample from its surface.
- Old becomes new February 22, 2019Two students take up the challenge of repairing, reusing and recycling clothes for London Fashion Week.
Renewable Energy World
- What to do about PG&E? Cities and others offer ideas February 21, 2019Plenty of people, it seems, have plans for PG&E Corp. Even before the California utility giant filed for bankruptcy facing $30 billion in potential liabilities from wildfires, state regulators began studying whether it needed to be reformed, restructured or even taken over by the government. They asked interested parties -- city officials, unions, consumer groups […]
- Maryland now accepting applications for commercial and residential energy storage tax credit February 21, 2019After its 2017 milestone in which Maryland became the first state in the U.S. to launch a 30 percent tax credit for businesses and homeowners that install energy storage devices, today the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) said that it is now accepting applications for the 2019 program.
- 27 MW of distributed solar to be installed in New York and Rhode Island February 21, 2019This week Standard Solar announced that it would be acquiring five distributed solar energy projects totaling 27 MW of generation capacity set to be built in New York and Rhode Island. Standard Solar will engineer, build, finance, own and operate all five projects which are expected to commence construction over the next six to nine […]