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EP: Renewable hydrogen counted towards 12% share in transport

January 30, 2018

European Parliament on Janaury 17, 2018 approved the recast-ed Directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources COM/2016/0767 by rapporteur José Blanco López. For the first…

Davos: RE @ 100% is becoming big business norm

January 30, 2018

As the latest RE100 progress report, one of the key corporate leadership initiatives promoted by We Mean Business, is showing: big businses goes 100% RE  driven by economic…

EU Commission calls its “bad air” members to Brussels

January 23, 2018

The EU Commissioner  for the Environment, Karmenu Vella, summoned the repsonsible ministers of Germany (yes),  France (yes), Italy, Spain, UK, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia to…

EU Parliament boosts Efficiency and Renewable targets

December 12, 2017

On November 28, 2017 two reports on the revision of  Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) and on the recast of the Renewable Directive of 2009 were approved by…

Desinvest in action: oil firms moving out of fossil

November 28, 2017

Just a week after the Norwegian central bank, which runs the country’s sovereign wealth fund, $1tn fund – the world’s biggest wealth fund built on Norwegian hydrocarbon stock–…

Hydrogen Council: 1 in 12 is FCEV in 2030

November 15, 2017

The Hydrogen Council vision for 2050 compiled by McKinsey sees hydrogen "powering more than 400 million cars, 15 to 20 million trucks, and around 5 million…

Joining 8 EU countries: Italian Energy Strategy is phasing out coal in 2025

November 10, 2017

On November 10, 2017 the Italian ministry of Economic Development of Italy published its Strategia Energetica Nationale per 2030 (SEN2030) phasing out coal in 2025, replacing…

Bonnnmmm? EU tries to cop(e) with CO2 urgencies

November 9, 2017

A study by the  Tyndall Centre for Climate Change and Teeside University, commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe indicates that the EU will exhaust its…

Climate Change is real: Governor Jerry Brown #CleanEnergyEU Invest conference

November 7, 2017

"We are facing an existential threat; environmental, health-wise and economical as a result of climate change ...fires in California are not restricted anymore to a fire…

Pledging the legion of zero emission city buses

October 30, 2017

And Milan and Paris and London and Copenhagen and Barcelona on October 23, 2017 at a C40 meeting pledged to transition to Fossil-Fuel-Free Streets by: 1) procuring,…