Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Last year, following Environmental Defence’s initial reporting of these numbers, the Government of Canada had clarified that the fossil fuel lobbyists were included in Alberta’s list of delegates, which the federal government has no control over. We have yet to receive a similar clarification this year.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection is still accepting applications for the Shared Energy Manager Program to help local governments, authorities and school districts reduce energy costs, consider renewable energy alternatives and implement local climate action plans. Click Here for presentation slides.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 13, 2025

While the Ontario government has unleashed housing sprawl on agricultural lands, including trying to undermine the Greenbelt – it has slammed the door shut on ground-mounted solar in all agricultural lands including Ontarios marginal farmland. Proposing a ban on Chinese components from all future energy purchases in Ontario.

Renewable Energy

Legal Planet

JULY 9, 2025

First, SRM presents high stakes for climate risks and response – which most governments thus far have been reluctant to acknowledge. Second, it is crucial to build effective and legitimate capacity for global governance of these capabilities, including how they may interact with efforts to cut emissions and adapt to climate change.

Government

Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2025

New methane satellites provide a powerful data capability for governments who want to demonstrate leadership in climate policy. open-source data platforms and international collaborations will be essential in making integrated satellite monitoring a truly global tool for environmental governance. Read the full explainer here.

Carbon Dioxide

Circle of Blue

MAY 20, 2025

The Great Lakes ground zero for data center growth With artificial intelligence and the demand for cloud computing set to grow in the years and decades ahead, technology companies are increasingly eying up the Great Lakes regions comparatively cooler climate and ample water resources. They dont cover government or enterprise data centers.

Cooling

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The entities that measure water diversions select measurement and reporting technologies based on their goals, site-specific conditions, regulatory requirements, and other considerations such as cost, data accessibility, and data usability. Examples of devices and methods used to measure or estimate water diversions.

Government

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Although the Khmer Empire is long gone, the use of the Mekong river system has only increased with population growth and the advancement of technology. Yet not enough attention is given to the river’s care by the local government or population. A young man with injuries from a landmine begs on the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Government

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

The MDM’s open-access data has also influenced policy discussions surrounding Mekong dams, pushing governments toward transparency, informing dam operation policies, and giving downstream nations independent evidence of upstream impacts. Now we have time to secure our boats and move livestock.”

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2025

The rapid advances in wind turbine, solar panel, and battery technology in recent years mean that generation no longer needs to be confined to large, centralized power plants connected to transmission lines far from where energy is used. How is the grid changing? Data source: U.S. Energy Information Agency. Make this plot yourself.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2025

If the Prime Minister wants to build a new economy for Canada, his government should invest in the energy of the future. To truly be efficient, the federal government must undertake good faith and meaningful consultation from the outset. The reality is that global markets are shifting away from oil and gas towards renewable energy.

Renewable Energy

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Crucially, the funding would also go towards social science, governance, and systems research – an acknowledgment from the NASEM committee that public engagement on emerging technologies, and whether we can govern them effectively, must be an integral part of assessing whether they should move forward.

Atmosphere

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – We are disappointed to see the Ontario government make unsupported claims about the proposed federal clean electricity regulations. Battery storage is very cost-effective.

Electricity

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2024

As governments and the auto industry advance the switch to electric vehicles, this rapid technology transition may disrupt traditional mobility patternsand, without equitable planning and policy, it has the potential for negative impacts to mobility and affordability in underserved and lower-income communities. Download as PDF

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 25, 2025

Fail to adjust the governance and use of groundwater around the world, and humanity risks surrendering parts of its coastal cities while pouring out finite reserves it will sorely need as the other effects of climate change take hold.

Sea Level

A Greener Life

JULY 10, 2025

The notice published by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Energy Administration opens the first round of applications for industrial zones aiming to reduce their carbon footprint.

Carbon Dioxide

A Greener Life

JUNE 25, 2025

They have now won UK government backing for the construction of small nuclear modular reactors (SMRs). They are seen by many techno-optimists as a key technology for quickly scaling up clean energy capacity. SMR projects to deliver a job creation surge The government announced that it will contribute £2.5

Technology

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2025

So did shares of Geokang Technologies Co Ltd, which makes intelligent monitoring terminals. Government bond yields rose across the board on Monday, with the most-traded 30-year treasury futures falling to five-week lows, as investors interpreted the news as part of China’s economic stimulus.

Electricity

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By concentrating this much power in the hands of one office, the province’s energy planning will happen in backrooms, likely to the benefit of government insiders. The government’s choice to enshrine in law a prioritization of nuclear power is also troubling.

Nuclear Power

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 23, 2024

It would seem that the Grinch has once again made off with a ramshackle sleigh full of wind turbines and solar panels and they aren’t likely to return from their shop, not unless the heart of the ole ‘Grinchy-Claus’ (aka the Alberta Government) has an unexpected growth spurt. Stay tuned.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 8, 2025

We are caught in the middle, struggling with our identity as a state successfully transitioning to clean technologies yet still reliant on gasoline. The federal government can certainly slow the transition – and they are – but EVs are here to stay and gas cars are getting cleaner which means we will use less gas.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

On 15 October, the port in Shandong was certified as carbon-neutral by the China Classification Society Quality Certification Company, according to a government statement. Exploring new technologies promoting green fuels and electric energy alternatives will be key to advancing the low-carbon transformation of ports, they add.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

The bill, introduced by State Representative Supreme Moore Omokunde and State Senator Chris Larson, creates an enforceable timeline with specific objectives, allowing flexibility for discussions of the various technology and policy approaches to come later. the federal government is trying to move us backwards on addressing climate change.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Although the Khmer Empire is long gone, the use of the Mekong river system has only increased with population growth and the advancement of technology. Yet not enough attention is given to the river’s care by the local government or population. A young man with injuries from a landmine begs on the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Government

Ocean Conservancy

JULY 16, 2025

Other types of cleanups, such as those used by groups in the International Trash Trap Network (ITTN), rely on a variety of cleanup technologies that can capture debris 24 hours a day. Cleanup technologies like trash traps also come in lots of different shapes and sizes.

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This demonstration of the connections between people and systems, and the need for collective solutions to complicated problems, came to mind when I read about an idea for a different real estate host technology: nuclear power plant owners seeking to bring large data centers to co-locate on their land. Modernize, or bypass, the grid?

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2025

Related Infrastructure Approvals "Data center development presents several evolving environmental permitting challenges, largely due to the rapid pace of technological and site plan changes. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, and our County Conservation Districts.”

Cooling

Water Research & Technology

JULY 9, 2025

Research has identified several sustainability challenges, including poor maintenance, inappropriate technology, corruption, non-participation of stakeholders, insufficient operational and regulatory capacity, politics and bureaucracy, and inadequate sector financing particularly for operation and maintenance.

Environmental Science

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 7, 2025

The world of technology is moving fast, and unless we act equally fast, it could undo much of the progress made on climate and environment in the last decades. Several governments around the world have already begun to address the environmental impact of AI and data centres.

Renewable Energy

Scientific American

AUGUST 7, 2025

And the nation’s government was pushing the concept of “green expeditions” to protect Antarctica’s uniquely fragile environment while studying and surveying the continent. A set of batteries being tested at a lab in Taiyuan University of Technology in China to see whether they can function in Antarctica.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Grantee activity has been both innovative and successful, from cooling tower evaporation capture for reuse to satellite leak detection technology. Since its launch in 2021, the grant program has awarded nearly $21 million to 64 projects. PaEN] -- Registration Now Open For PASA 2025 Sustainable Agriculture Conference Feb.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Conniving to cash in Even as the fossil fuel industry avoids paying its fair share of the mounting costs of fossil fuel-driven climate harms, fossil fuel subsidies bankrolled by governments (and taxpayers) around the world soared to $7 trillion in 2022, according to the International Monetary Fund.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

MAY 1, 2025

The government has also been guilty of overregulation, with three or four approvals needed to install solar systems. Ultimately, the Thai government or policymakers are scared of solar development. Its not just the government with power; on the peoples side, on the civil society side, we are fighting very hard as well.

Renewable Energy

Earth 911

AUGUST 7, 2025

Modern recycling technologies can now recover up to 95% of materials from silicon-based panels and up to 98% from thin-film panels. The infrastructure, technology, and economic incentives for comprehensive solar panel recycling are rapidly falling into place. The good news? The good news?

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

And how can we provide job opportunities for the tremendously skilled workers in traditional energy domains while also training the workers we need to accelerate emerging technologies? New and emerging geothermal technologies allow us to tap into and extract the earths naturally occurring heat in ways that were not possible a decade ago.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

JULY 3, 2025

In China, new energy solutions are being guided by digital technologies and ecological planning. When governed by big data and advanced technologies, hydropower can serve as a multifunctional resilience tool by generating clean energy, storing water and mitigating the risk of floods and droughts.

Clean Energy