European Union (EU) greenhouse gas emissions continued to decrease in 2014, with a 4.1% reduction in emissions to 24.4% below 1990 levels, according to the EU’s annual inventory published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA).

Modelling shows Australian RET of 50% by 2030, rather than current trajectory of 34%, would almost double number of jobs created.

Placing planet Earth on a strict diet—100 percent renewable energy—can be done by 2050, without the need for radically new technology, contends Stanford University Professor Mark Z. Jacobson.

One of CSIRO’s main climate science units planned to slash four out of five researchers, all but eliminating its monitoring and climate modelling research, a new document reveals.

Elaine Buck grew up in the oilfields of Texas. She started her career as a navigation engineer on seismic research vessels for Schlumberger, a big oil-services company, and worked her way to high up in the executive ranks, with a salary to match. So how has this American hydrocarbon specialist ended up living in the tiny, remote Orkney islands off northern Scotland, and working at the forefront of renewable energy?

Work is finally set to begin on the Mugga Lane solar farm, almost three years after Chinese company Zhenfa won an ACT government contract to supply solar power.

Almost 100 million households worldwide may be powered by solar panels by 2020, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

Almost 50,000 additional Canberra homes will be powered by renewable energy after a new wind farm contract was awarded by the ACT Government.

Morocco has activated the world’s largest solar power plant in the Sahara desert, near the city of Quarzazate. According to Climate Investment Funds (CIF), the plant is capable of powering over one million homes by 2018 and will also reduce carbon emissions by 760,000 tons er year.