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Greece increases its renewable energy targets

A Greener Life

By Anders Lorenzen Having been at the forefront of dealing with climate impacts in recent years, Greece has shored up its renewable energy targets. Greece, which has recently battled one climate-fuelled wildfire after the other, has ramped up its renewable energy targets.

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Steelton-Highspire School District, Tröegs Independent Brewing Show Benefits Of Going Solar, Driving Electric Busses In Dauphin County

PA Environment Daily

Plentiful sunshine and generous solar incentives are here. In 2011, Tregs Independent Brewing worked with Solar Renewable Energy to install a rooftop solar array large enough to produce 15-20 percent of its annual electricity usage. Right now, Pennsylvania is currently ranked 26th in the nation for solar power.

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Resource Bank: Impacts of Renewable Energy Facilities

Law Columbia

In order to achieve the greenhouse gas reductions needed to sustain a livable climate, we must scale up renewable energy capacity at a rapid pace. The resource bank is part of the work of the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI). Read more about RELDI here and visit the resource bank here.

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Ontario: Now is the time to increase renewable energy, not fossil gas

Enviromental Defense

But rather than ramping up the use of polluting fossil gas, this is the perfect moment for the province to transition to clean and safe renewable energy. But the agency was caught skewing information , suppressing modeling that supported renewable energy options and showed that their use would actually reduce consumers’ costs. .

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Environmental Defence Calls on the Alberta Government to Drop its Ideological Opposition to Clean, Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

The Premier had made it very clear in past statements that she is biased against renewable energy, and instead favours projects that cause pollution, limit Alberta’s future economic growth, and contribute to global climate change. Wind and solar energy are the least expensive sources of energy in Canada.

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Analysis: Argentina targets huge expansion of renewable energy by 2030

A Greener Life

“This is the first time Argentina has put into numbers the transformation needed in its energy sector to deliver on the country’s climate pledges,” Juan Carlos Villalonga, a renewable energy consultant and former deputy in the national congress, told Diálogo Chino. The plan targets US$2.7 GW of additional capacity.

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The Carbon Capture Boondoggle Begins To Unwind 

Enviromental Defense

CCS is a multi-billion dollar boondoggle that doesn’t come close to the hype, has significant safety risks, and is a substantial distraction from real climate solutions, such as building more renewable energy, increasing electricity transmission infrastructure, and developing and using storage technology. Want proof?