Technology
Apple and Google commit to power offices with renewables
NEWS: Technology companies independently sign up to solar and wind agreements in California
Brazil tribe teams up with tech company to save rainforest
NEWS: Indigenous people and San Francisco start-up are using old smartphones to monitor illegal logging
Apple cuts carbon footprint by 3%
NEWS: Apple has reduced its carbon impact by 3% and admits “there’s still a lot of work to be done”
Franco-German summit calls for greater co-operation on renewables
Merkel and Hollande say a new cross-border venture will promote renewables, help hasten move away from fossil fuels
UK carbon capture industry could be worth £35 billion
Delays to CCS risk £35-bil of economic benefit, says report
Weightless carbon gel offers major clean tech boost
Move over graphene. The latest new super material in town, a carbon aerogel developed in China, could cut residential, transport and industrial emissions
Machine networking vital to meet climate targets
New report from Carbon War Room claims efficiencies gained from machine to machine networking could cut 7.2 Gigatonnes of CO2 by 2020
Can graphene drive the green economy?
How the wonder stuff could cut and capture emissions while generating and storing clean energy
My 16kg transport carbon footprint
The CarbonDiem app allows users to monitor their impact on climate change by tracking the scope and mode of their transport
Climate action in the US: 5 Reasons to be cheerful
Forget the stalemate at the UN climate change talks, back home the US is making more climate change progress than its partisan politics would have you think.
Rio+20: The underwater lab that could unlock the secrets of the ocean
A 58m sub-sea laboratory could drastically increase the length of time that scientists can observe the oceans.
Volcanoes, seaweed and space lasers: Five energy technologies to fight climate change
The energy debate often doesn’t stretch much further than fossil fuels and nuclear power, but there are a host of alternative technologies in the pipeline.
Rio+20 Business Focus: Intel on how IT can cut carbon and boost profits
Embedding Information and communications technology (ICT) into your business strategy offers huge returns. Intel estimates ICT could cut 15% of global emissions by 2020.
Greenpeace slates Apple, Twitter and Amazon over energy use
As web giants expand ‘cloud computing’ capabilities, more attention is required on efficiency and renewable sources, says report.
VIDEO: Scottish Power welcome EU 2030 renewable target decision
Leading UK power company welcomes EU’s 2030 targets saying move provides certainty required to support emerging technologies.
“Water is much more important than oil”
As the doors close on this year’s World Future Energy Summit, we look back on the four days in the words of those who attended.
The solar-powered bottles that light up the Philippines
The Liter of Light project, showcased by the UN’s Momentum for Change project at the Durban Climate Summit aims to bring affordable light to one of the 12 million living without it.