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Thirty days after Joe Biden entered the White House, the US is officially back in the Paris Agreement. EURACTIV’s media partner, Climate Home News reports. On his first day in office, Biden signed an executive order notifying the UN that the US was rejoining the Paris Agreement. Now that order has taken effect, the US is expected to submit a new national contribution to the agreement, setting out an emissions target for 2030. “It’s good to have the US back in the Paris Agreement, but sadl...

Bhutan Is Carbon Negative NOW. Why Is It The Only Country? There’s a small landlocked country, high up in South Asia’s Eastern Himalayas, that’s carbon negative. It’s the only carbon negative country in the world, taking in more greenhouse gases from the atmosphere than it emits. This lovely green country that spans 14,824 square miles is called the Kingdom of Bhutan. Its population is about 800,000, and it limits its influx of tourists to a certain number of people per day. There are o...

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Hinkley Point C suffers another £500M cost rise and delay The cost of Hinkley Point C nuclear power station has risen by around £500M and its start date pushed back to June 2026 due to delays arising from the Covid-19 pandemic. EDF said it expected the Somerset project to cost up to £23bn compared with a 2019 estimate of a £22.5bn maximum. The start of electricity generation from Unit One of the power station had been scheduled for the end of 2025, but work postponed last year at the height...

UK housebuilders to face zero carbon ready standard from 2025 Modular net zero carbon homes in Plumstead designed by Fuse Architects | Credit: Fuse Architects Government confirms Future Homes Standard will apply to any new homes built from 2025, delivering a major uptick in the pace of the shift away from gas boilers - but campaigners are left disappointed by failure to adopt more rapid timetable All new homes built from 2025 will need to be zero carbon ready in the UK under fresh green buildin...

Shearwater has said that the proposal would involve construction of a wind-SMR and hydrogen production hybrid energy project, which it says would be

Question No. 2: What will a Biden White House bring to the table?

Kwasi Kwarteng steps up to BEIS Secretary post as Alok Sharma takes on full-time COP Presidency The Government has confirmed that Alok Sharma will step down from his position as Secretary of State for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to enable more focus on his role as COP26 President, with Kwasi Kwarteng named as his replacement. The reshuffle will enable Sharma to focus on the COP26 climate summit full-time. Image: Gov UK Sharma took up the COP26 Presidency 11...

Kwasi Kwarteng becomes first black Conservative Secretary of State Boris Johnson announces mini reshuffle as Alok Sharma steps down as Business Secretary to take on the role of COP26 president full-time 8 January 2021 • 7:29pm Boris Johnson has appointed the Conservatives’ first black Secretary of State after Alok Sharma relinquished the role of Business Secretary to focus on hosting this year’s COP26 climate conference. Kwasi Kwarteng, who previously served under Mr Sharma, will now step...