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The tide is turning against ALEC in the renewable energy battle
2015-06-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Powerful interests are facing off on the future of renewable energy in North Carolina. A bill to freeze the state`s renewable portfolio standard (RPS) - a mandate on how much clean energy utilities have to use - was shoved through committee last month, but despite a wide Republican majority (34-16), the bill hasn`t been brought to the Senate floor. Similar legislation has been introduced and shot down in past years. Environmental and business groups fighting the bill say that reintroducing...
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Australia: Electricity from renewable energy fell in 2014 first time in seven years
2015-06-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Renewable energy's share of how much electricity is produced in Australia fell in 2014, but the number of businesses connecting to solar power is booming, according to the peak body for the clean energy industry. The fall in the share of renewables was the first since 2008. A day after the House of Representatives passed a bill that will reduce Australia's renewable energy target, the Clean Energy Council has published its annual report, which shows the amount of renewable energy being produced...
Ikea pledges 1bn on renewable energy and climate change efforts
2015-06-04 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ikea, the worlds biggest furniture retailer, plans to spend EUR1bn ($1.13bn) on renewable energy and steps to help poor nations cope with climate change, the latest example of firms upstaging governments in efforts to slow warming. Chief Executive Peter Agnefjall said the measures would absolutely not push up prices at the Swedish groups stores. The investments will be good for customers, good for the climate and good for Ikea too, he told Reuters. He said the plan was motivated by a...
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Saudi Arabia: an unlikely ally in the march towards renewable energy
2015-06-04 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: If the 19th-century epitome of a futile economic transaction was carrying coals to Newcastle, then the 20th century equivalent might have been importing oil to Saudi Arabia. Rarely has a country been so spectacularly well endowed with a resource so fundamental to the functioning of the global economy in a particular era. How striking, therefore, to learn that the Saudi oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, is predicting that within just 25 years we could no longer need fossil fuels. This, from a representative...
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Shell CEO: We cant ignore the importance of renewable energy
2015-06-04 12:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Shell boss Ben van Beurden has told an OPEC meeting that traditional energy sources must integrate and work together with clean technologies to provide sustainable and economically-sensible power for the future. Speaking in Vienna on Thursday, van Beurden said that the global energy system is going through a transition from coal and oil to a low-carbon model, where natural gas, renewables and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology play a key role. In a world where, as we heard recently,...
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