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Europe weighing 40 percent 2030 carbon-cutting goal: EU sources

European Union regulators are considering doubling the bloc’s target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and setting a tougher binding goal for renewable energy use, EU sources said. The European Commission, the EU’s executive, outlined new targets earlier this year but has yet to follow up with a firm legislative proposal. That is expected around the end of the year. Speaking on condition of anonymity, one source said the Commission was considering two legal targets to follow the three green energy goals that expire at the end of this decade.

Renewable energy is still a hot topic for Germany

Solar Valley, an industrial park sandwiched between the autobahn and the eastern German town of Bitterfeld-Wolfen, was once home to the world’s biggest manufacturer of solar cells. Q-Cells – whose shares were worth €84 at their peak in 2007 – still exists, but is now owned by South Korean conglomerate Hanwha after filing for bankruptcy last year. It is one of the most prominent victims of an industry shake-out that has seen a rollcall of smaller firms declare themselves insolvent while bigger players have exited the market. This year, Siemens announced that it would shut down its solar power unit after struggling to find a buyer, while Bosch announced that it would stop making solar parts from next year. It is a rare disaster story for German manufacturing.

Entro 2015 la Cina investirà 300 mld nelle rinnovabili

(TMNews) – La Cina, il maggiore produttore mondiale di emissioni di CO2 investirà, nei prossimi due anni, fino a 1,8 trilioni di yuan, pari a 294 miliardi di dollari, per combattere i cambiamenti climatici e favorire lo sviluppo delle fonti pulite
L’annuncio è stato dato ieri da Xie Zhenhua, vice presidente della National Development and Reform Commission che, nel corso di una conferenza sul piano degli investimenti del Paese dei prossimi due anni, ha ribadito la volontà del Governo cinese di allacciare alla rete elettrica nazionale, entro quella data, circa 100 GW eolici e circa 35 GW fotovoltaici.

Renewable energy expo witnesses grand opening

The 7th Renewable Energy India 2013 Expo at the national capital witnessed a grand opening on the first day of the expo with participation of companies from across the globe and over a 1000 Industry experts at the India Expo Centre, Greater Noida. As always the event has proved to be Asia’s largest and the most influential platform to address the challenges of the Renewable Energy Industry and to showcase the best innovative technological solutions available to overcome them. The event brings together decision makers and influencers as well as technical experts and professionals from leading companies involved in the renewable energy generation, transmission and distribution within India and around the world.

The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report

The fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is due out on September 27th, and is expected to reaffirm with growing confidence that humans are driving global warming and climate change. In anticipation of the widespread news coverage of this esteemed report, climate contrarians appear to be in damage control mode, trying to build up skeptical spin in media climate stories. Just in the past week we’ve seen: Interestingly, these pieces spanned nearly the full spectrum of the 5 stages of global warming denial.

Top climate scientists admit global warming forecasts were wrong

A leaked draft of a report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is understood to concede that the computer predictions for global warming and the effects of carbon emissions have been proved to be inaccurate. The report, to be published later this month, is a six year assessment which is seen as the gospel of climate science and is cited to justify fuel taxes and subsidies for renewable energy.