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HFCs Phased Out by Montreal Protocol: The 12 Biggest Climate Stories This Week
Things are moving quickly as our planet makes the transition to a new, clean economy. You want to stay in the loop – but you’re busy, that’s why we keep an eye on the headlines for you! Welcome to the 18 October 2016 edition of the Daily Planet’s weekly State Of The Planet. Don’t hesitate...
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US Cleantech Surges Amidst Dramatic Cost Reductions
A new US government report has revealed that the cost of low-carbon technologies has plunged by as much as 94 percent since 2008. Because of a strategic shift in government spending on innovation, solutions like wind turbines, solar technologies, electric vehicles and light-emitting diodes are increasingly deployed across America, the report says. In 2015, wind...
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What The Big Apple’s Climate Week Looked Like on Social Media
Just weeks ahead of the US election, Climate Week NYC brought government and business leaders to the Big Apple to talk about how to accelerate the low carbon transition. During a range of events, receptions and discussions from 19 until 25 September, participants from around the world focused on how investment in innovation, technology and...
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Ratify Paris Now’ Urges UN Chief And 17 Other Key Stories
Things are moving quickly as our planet makes the transition to a new, clean economy. You want to stay in the loop – but you’re busy, that’s why we keep an eye on the headlines for you! Welcome to the 16 August 2016 edition of the Daily Planet’s weekly State Of The Planet. Don’t hesitate...
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12 Powerful Tweets From The UN’s New No-Nonsense Environment Boss
If his tweets are anything to go by, the UN’s new environment chief will not take no for an answer when it comes to climate action. The former Norwegian environment minister officially took over as UN Environment Programme (UNEP) executive director this week (8 August) at the organisation’s headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. Solheim is an...
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Rio 2016’s Bold Call For Climate Action And 17 Other Key Stories
Things are moving quickly as our planet makes the transition to a new, clean economy. You want to stay in the loop – but you’re busy, that’s why we keep an eye on the headlines for you! Welcome to the 9 August 2016 edition of the Daily Planet’s weekly State Of The Planet. Don’t hesitate...
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Patricia Espinosa’s First Week as UN Climate Chief… on Twitter
While the world is getting ready for the next global climate summit, Patricia Espinosa takes over as the UN’s next climate chief. Christiana Figueres’ – who’s now running for UN Secretary General – successor has had a busy first week at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). We’ve put together an overview...
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Europe’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Lowest Since 1990
Greenhouse gas emissions by the EU’s 28 member states have continued to decrease in 2014, with a 4.1 per cent reduction in emissions to almost 25 per cent below 1990 levels. The significant decrease in emissions came with an increase in Europe’s gross domestic product (GDP), demonstrating that economic growth is possible without rising carbon...
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10 Years on, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ is Becoming More Convenient
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH-qO9RRchc Do you remember the release of Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ in 2006? A lot has changed since the iconic film helped spark a global debate on climate action. Yesterday (24 May), former US vice president Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project celebrated the tenth anniversary of the ground-breaking documentary that prompted millions to start...
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Global Renewable Energy Workforce Now Size of Switzerland: 8.1 Million
More than 8.1 million, roughly the equivalent of the entire country of Switzerland, are now employed by the renewable energy industry worldwide – a five per cent increase from last year. The new data released today (25 May) also provides a global estimate of the number of jobs supported by large hydropower, with a conservative...
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