For years, grid parity – the time when solar and wind would be cost-competitive with fossil fuels and nuclear – was the holy grail of renewables energy, a target to reach in a distant future. But the future is now.
Yearly Archives: 2017
A selection of climate and energy news as COP23 is taking place in Bonn, Germany.
Energy news as COP23 is taking place in Germany
4 Renewables currently generate very little of Puerto Rico's electricity but hopefully this could change after Hurricane Maria.
Renewables: how Puerto Rico could turn a crisis into an ...
Climate change can be fixed by switching from cars to bikes, planting trees in our cities, tapping into energy efficiency's potential and ditching coal and natural gas for solar and wind. Learn out more in this article.
Four cheap solutions to climate change
1 While it is undeniable that we are ramping up our actions against climate change, it is hard to deny that global warming is getting scarier every week. Here is a quick selection of horror stories I have collected this summer.
Climate change horror stories from around the world
I saw last week An Inconvenient Sequel by Al Gore, the sequel of 2006 hit documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. I have mix feelings about it.
Film review: An inconvenient sequel
A review of Climate of Hope, written by Carl Pope and Michael Bloomberg. Published this year it offers a comprehensive look on climate solutions.
Book review: Climate of hope
2 A look at the previous months work, my capstone project for a local grocery store and my sustainable investing class.
Now a sustainable MBA graduate, for hire !
1 As more and more institutions and people are divesting from fossil fuels globally, climate responsible finance is booming. Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank.
How Finance can help stop climate change: Green bonds
With the US and the EU lagging on climate action, India, China and South Korea are moving forward and showing leadership on this vital topic.
Climate leadership is now in Asia
Walmart made headlines as it launched its Project Gigaton, an effort to help its supply chain cut by a billion metric tons its carbon footprint.
Walmart goes gigantic, launches Project Gigaton
When one thinks of the Middle East nowadays, oil comes to mind. But with solar photovoltaic booming right now all around the region and beyond, this might not be the case in twenty or thirty years.