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Top stories from the Russian press on Thursday, September 8th

China plans to peak coal consumption by 2025 but, amid economic recovery, imports of the fuel from Colombia grew 150% last year. Can it last?

On July 16, 2021, after nearly two decades of research and preparation, China finally opened what is now the world’s largest national emissions

20 May 2021 There’s one statistic that was included in the International Energy Agency (IEA) net zero report earlier this week that stands out above every single one. The thing about no longer investing in any new fossil fuel infrastructure was big, but to me, advanced the call for OECD countries to completely shut down their coal-fired power stations by the year 2030 to align with net zero by 2050 is the really, really big one. As Ember Climate showed in their webinar, it is the rapid shut-d...

27 April 2021 One of the more insidious claims at last week’s ‘Leaders Climate Summit’ coming from Australia’s leadership – namely, the Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Energy and Emissions Reductions Minister Angus Taylor – is that Australia has been a global leader in climate action, and particularly for renewable energy. “We are deploying renewable energy ten times faster than the global average per person. We have the highest uptake of rooftop solar in the world”. In some s...

24 April 2021 At the second day of the ‘Leaders Climate Summit’ convened by President Joe Biden, the former CEO of the Australian Energy Market Operator Audrey Zibelman, announced that the United States and the United Kingdom will be joining the Global Power Systems Transformation Consortium (GPSTC). “[Balancing supply and demand] has always been a difficult engineering challenge, but is becoming even more so as we decarbonise the grid,” she said. Zibelman cites her experience in the AE...

1 April 2021 As many predicted, the pace of global change on climate is beginning to show signs of acceleration, with the US government announcing a major infrastructure plan that packages significant spending and regulations on the country’s greenhouse gas emissions and an international summit held by the International Energy Agency highlighting hastening change. After a recent announcement to significantly expand US offshore wind deployment, Biden’s $2 trillion USD infrastructure plan inc...

A broad move away from coal power was an important factor in pushing down global greenhouse gas emissions, researchers said, and could help accelerate a shift toward renewable energy.

How does Australia fare in the European renewable energy stakes? 2020 was a great year for renewables, so competition is tough.

A detailed new report reveals 2020 was the first year wind, solar, biomass and hydro beat fossil fuels in Europe. We're on the right track for climate.