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China to limit energy consumption at 8% by 2015
The Chinese government has announced, on Wednesday, that China will aim to limit total annual primary energy consumption to 8% a year from 2010 to 2015, as it seeks to improve efficiency and to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases and pollution. It intends also to limit installations of new-coal fired power plants while improving the share of renewables.
read more... 24/01/2013
CCS: the solution to reduce CO2 emissions
The CCS technology consists of capturing the CO2 from burning fossil fuels and storing it in deep geological formations, this way it will not boost the greenhouse gases. Technology exists to capture the emissions of factories and other industrial processes such as natural gas processing as well as power plants that burn fossil fuels or even biomass.
read more... 03/01/2013
IEA: Coal to overtake oil as leading energy source by 2017
Coal is expected to surpass oil as the world’s top fuel in the next five years, according to a report issued by the International Energy Agency (IEA), posting a threat of more greenhouse gases injection into the atmosphere than ever before.
read more... 21/12/2012
EU carbon market
Carbon trading is a market-based tool to limit greenhouse gases. The EU's emissions trading system (ETS) was launched in 2005 and is the European Commission's flagship mechanism to fight climate change.
read more... 20/12/2012
Germany: 100% renewable electricity supply by 2050
Germany has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 35% below the 1990 levels by 2020 and by 80-85 % by 2050. In order to reach such a goal, Germany plans to transform its electricity supply system to completely renewable based electricity. In the first six months of 2012, the amount of electricity produced from renewable energy rose from 20% to 25%, bringing the country closer to its targets of 35% by 2020 and 80% by 2050.
read more... 27/11/2012