Energy

March 12, 2021

Climate change: ‘Default effect’ sees massive green energy switch

Matt McGrath

GETTY

Energy, Climate Action, Energy Transition

When Swiss energy companies made green electricity the default choice, huge numbers of consumers were happy to stick with it – even though it cost them more.

February 12, 2021

This treaty argues it’s time to treat fossil fuels like nuclear weapons and get rid of them

AJ Dellinger

AerialPerspective Works/E+/Getty Images

Climate Change, Energy, Energy Transition

For decades following the end of World War II, the greatest perceived threat that the world faced was the use of nuclear weapons. Today, the threat is something more innocuous in daily use but no less deadly in the long run: the constant pumping of fossil fuel into the atmosphere.

January 12, 2021

Oil companies lock in drilling, challenging Biden on climate

Matthew Brown and Cathy Bussewitz

AP Photo / Jeri Clausing

Climate Change, Energy, GHG emissions

In the closing months of the Trump administration, energy companies stockpiled enough drilling permits for western public lands to keep pumping oil for years and undercut President-elect Joe Biden’s plans to curb new drilling because of climate change, according to public records and industry analysts.

December 10, 2020

Human ‘stuff’ now outweighs all life on Earth

Erik Stokstad

HUSEYINTUNCER/ ISTOCK

Ecological Impacts, Built Environment, Energy, GHG emissions, Materials

It’s not just your storage unit that’s packed to the gills. According to a new study, the mass of all our stuff—buildings, roads, cars, and everything else we manufacture—now exceeds the weight of all living things on the planet. And the amount of new material added every week equals the total weight of Earth’s nearly 8 billion people.

November 30, 2020

In-depth Q&A: Does the world need hydrogen to solve climate change?

Simon Evans and Josh Gabbatiss

Voestalpine AG

Climate Change, Energy, Future

In this in-depth Q&A – which includes a range of infographics, maps and interactive charts, as well as the views of dozens of experts – Carbon Brief examines the big questions around the “hydrogen economy” and looks at the extent to which it could help the world avoid dangerous climate change.

November 26, 2020

Just north of the oilsands, the largest remote solar farm in Canada is about to power up

Ainslie Cruickshank

Nick Kendrick / Greenplanet Energy Analytics

Energy, Climate Change, Energy Transition, First Nations, Solar Photovoltaic

Three Nations Energy (3NE), a corporation owned by Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Mikisew Cree First Nation and Fort Chipewyan Metis Association, announced the completion of their 2.2-megawatt solar farm in Fort Chipewyan this week.

November 21, 2020

Oil versus climate change: The economics of drilling in the Arctic

Andrea Miller

Arctic, Climate Change, Energy

The Arctic is not a barren, frozen wasteland. It’s home to some of the most unique ecosystems in the world. More than this: it’s home to people.

November 7, 2020

What Biden’s U.S. election win means for Canadian climate action

Ainslie Cruickshank

Climate Action, Decision-making, Emissions reduction targets, Energy, Governments, Paris Agreement

The president-elect’s promise to ramp up U.S. climate leadership will have far-reaching consequences, not just for the Keystone XL pipeline and the oilsands, but for Canada’s fledgling green economy

November 1, 2020

The super-cool materials that send heat to space

XiaoZhi Lim

Jyotirmoy Mandal

Technology, Climate Change, Energy

When businessman Howard Bisla was tasked with saving a local shop from financial ruin, one of his first concerns was energy efficiency. In June 2018, he approached his local electricity provider in Sacramento, California, about upgrading the lights. The provider had another idea. It offered to install an experimental cooling system: panels that could stay colder than their surroundings, even under the blazing hot sun, without consuming energy.

October 21, 2020

Australian outback cattle station to house world’s largest solar farm, powering Singapore

Elias Visontay

Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

Energy, Climate Action, Energy Transition, Renewable Energy

A $20bn gigawatt solar farm, the world’s largest and if built will be visible from space, was granted major project status from the Morrison government in July with energy generated from the project to ultimately power Singapore.

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