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Qatar has signed an agreement with France's Total and Japan's Marubeni to build a solar power project with capacity of about 800 megawatts (MW), Qatar's energy minister said on Sunday.

An estimated 85 per cent of this equipment has been imported from three countries primarily China, alongside Vietnam and Malaysia with a surge coinciding with the rollout of the Centres Make-in-India programme.

Good news... but not good enough.

Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signed an executive order on Friday aiming for renewable energy to provide all of the state's electricity by 2030 to fight climate change.

Zuleta put on hold a deal with a Chinese company to extract lithium, and said another deal with a German company that previously had been scrapped would remain so.

Germany imported 40.2 million tonnes of hard coal last year, 14.7% less than in 2018 due to competition from renewables and gas, and as the steel industry curbed usage, importers said on Friday.

It is issuing new rules it says will help consumers.

Germany's four power grid operators said on Friday that a sharp rise in the country's renewable generation capacity was needed over the next 15 years to meet demand from the electrification of heating, transport and other industries.

Electricity generation from natural gas-fired power plants is expected to grow 1.3 percent this year, the slowest rate in three years as the nation develops more renewable energy sources.

Germany looks to step up coal exit timetable

BERLIN Germany will pay utility companies billions of euros to speed up the shutdown of their coal-fired power plants as part of the country's efforts to

Oil prices steadied on Friday as sluggish economic growth in China, the world's biggest crude importer, raised concerns over fuel demand and countered optimism from the signing of a China-U.S. trade deal.

Oil prices edged higher on Friday but were set to end the week broadly steady as sluggish economic growth in China, the world's biggest crude importer, raised concerns about fuel demand and countered optimism from the signing of a China-U.S. trade deal.

U.S. refiners are scooping up cheap high-sulfur fuel oil for processing from Russia and the Baltic states as they take advantage of new shipping rules that have cut demand for the dirtier marine fuel, according to oil traders and shipping data.

Oil prices were steady on Friday as reports of sluggish economic growth in China, the world's biggest crude importer, raised concerns about future fuel demand and countered optimism from the signing of the Sino-U.S. trade deal earlier in the week.

China's crude oil throughput rose to a record high in 2019 following the start-up of two mega-refineries, official data showed on Friday, with December posting the highest daily run-rate on record.

Oil prices were steady on Friday as investors braced for data expected to show China's economic growth last year slid to its slowest pace in 29 years, holding on to gains for now after Washington and Beijing inked a long-awaited trade deal.

After a brief jump to over $70 a barrel, the price of Brent crude has subsided again

Scotiabank this week forecast 2020 growth of 1.6 per cent for Alberta

The number of licensed irradiators used for blood and the risk they pose has grown, an investigation shows.

A new photo series titled Restricted Residence features 42 thermal images of locals and their changed landscape

Japan court halts nuclear reactor restart citing volcano, quake risks

Photographer Giles Price used thermal imaging to document Fukushima residents finally returning after 2011's nuclear disaster.

Austria fails to win over neighbours for nuclear phase-out

Nuclear power is controversial in many parts of the world, but perhaps nowhere more than in the Gulf region, where it has been at the heart of the geopolitical storm involving Iran

According to received wisdom, local activism against the establishment of industrial plants follows a cycle, with its highest intensity a short time after mobilization. If a firm stands, activism is destined to fade away. New research published in the Strategic Management Journal suggests we should think again.

/PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it has signed a contract with Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Bulgaria to migrate the...

Theres every reason to find out why an emergency alert wrongly went out early Sunday over the Pickering nuclear plant. But a great deal of the alarmist rhetoric over that false alarm simply rings false, Martin Regg Cohn writes.

Far more people have died from the increased burning of fossil fuels since the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown than the accident itself.

UK looks to offshore wind for green energy transition

The U.K. is a major player in the offshore wind sector.

Too often its not the technology that fails but the capital.

/PRNewswire/ -- ARTH-Wind, the leading provider of wind blade inspections and consulting in South America, is proud to announce that Mr. Lucas dos Santos will...

The country is well on its way to becoming carbon neutral.

Global investments into renewables finished 2019 with a slight gain, after a dismal first half of the year.BloombergNEF reported Monday that the worldwide total topped $282 billion, up 1% from 2018, driven by a late surge in offshore wind projects off the coasts of China and Europe.The numbers: Nations invested more than $138 billion into wind projects, up 6% from the previous year, including nearly $30 billion for offshore farms.

Clean energy investment in the United States surged to a fresh record of $55.5 billion last year, despite the government's attempts to roll back supportive policies, a report showed on Thursday.

Recent editorials from North Carolina newspapers:

Regional Community Energy Fund never opened and Gladys Berejiklians government refusing to explain why

/PRNewswire/ -- Longroad Energy, a US-based renewable energy developer, owner and operator, announced today the financial close and start of the repowering of...

As some communities grapple with rising recycling costs, readers see ways to keep up resolve.

Burning waste at the tip caused "significant risk to air quality", the Environment Agency says.

Two-thirds of London boroughs are recycling less than the national average, government figures show.

From the Facebook group Quartzsite Happenings A couple months back as I was driving to the claim, a coyote, running across a wash, caught my eye because of the large white garbage bag in his mouth. A little farther down the road I see this. It is within spitting distance from town in a DAY …

The man in the tattered shirt, biceps bulging as he pulls an enormous bag of waste behind him on a trolley. The blaring horns as cars slide by, annoyed at the intrusion in their lane. The furtive WhatsApp messages on community channels, "Are these waste pickers dangerous? I don't like them digging through my trash "

What starts as wonder turns to despair as I worry about our future.

While news about our global environment can be overwhelming, there are some steps you can take locally to do your part.

Letters: Dr Yoriko Otomo on the difficulty of not buying any plastic for a week, and Carol Taylor on a brilliant mobile shop in Derbyshire

No one wants a pigsty on wheels.

Environment minister Jeff Yureks office said the new Resource Productivity and Recycling Authority (RPRA) makes Ontario a less competitive place to do business.

For the fourth consecutive year, the WEF's annual meeting in Davos will be carbon-neutral, according to organisers.

Early life stress is common among children from disadvantaged backgrounds, who also often live in areas with greater exposure to air pollution, says study.

Australian Open sets air pollution limit after bushfire smoke anger

Roger Federer says he did what he could when poor air quality affected the health of players in Australian Open qualifying.

The 20-time grand slam champion has rejected claims he was selfish and supported organisers new policy after angry backlash over haze-afflicted qualifiers

Hundreds of people have rallied in Serbia's capital to protest the heavy pollution that has gripped Belgrade in recent days

Hundreds of people have rallied in Serbia's capital to protest the heavy pollution that has gripped Belgrade in recent days.

Hundreds of people have rallied in Serbias capital to protest the heavy pollution that has gripped Belgrade in recent days

Did you know that your biggest daily exposure to air pollutants comes while driving your car to work? Until manufacturers start making intelligent

Hundreds of protesters, some wearing surgical masks and respirators, took to the streets of the Serbian capital Belgrade on Friday, demanding the government tackle severe air pollution throughout the European Union candidate country.

Heating woes fuel Balkan smog crisis

China will impose more curbs on agriculture and widen restrictions on industrial development in the next five years in a bid to protect scarce, already contaminated water supplies from further pollution, a government official said on Friday.

New obstacles ahead in China's pollution fight: report