This brief provides options on how the Government of Indonesia (GoI) can leverage public funding to incentivize private investment in renewable energy.
Fossil fuel companies in Europe are using an international treaty signed nearly three decades ago to challenge several governments' ability to take climate action—exemplifying why, critics said Monday, the 1994 Energy Charter Treaty is a major impediment to transitioning away from planet-heating fossil fuels and toward renewable energy.
Five energy groups are suing four European governments for almost €4bn over the stymying of coal, oil and gas projects as climate change concerns rise, using a secretive process based on an international energy treaty.
Part of the World Sustainable Development Summit 2022, this event will highlight solar irrigation including findings from the recent guidebook on solar pumps.
South African miner Exxaro (EXXJ.J) and Chinese state fund CNIC are among potential buyers admitted to the final round of bidding for African renewable energy firm Lekela Power - a company worth around $2 billion, a number of sources familiar with the deal told Reuters.
Releasing a new study showing that world governments spend at least $1.8 trillion annually to subsidize activities which worsen the climate crisis, global subsidies experts on Thursday said leaders must eliminate or redirect the financial supports as part of an ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework at an upcoming summit in China.
The B.C. government handed out $1.3 billion in fossil fuel subsidies over the past two fiscal years, according to a new report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, an independent think tank.
Voluntary sustainability standards can be a valuable tool for tackling poverty. But for these standards to be truly effective, smallholder farmers must have a say in how these are designed and put into practice.