Browse the latest carbon and energy news, research and innovation
Green buildings in demand, Efficiency top of mind and Nuclear power could be coming to NZ
02/02/2024
- Green buildings securing strong premiums
- Energy Efficiency top of mind for CEOs
- Future electricity demand growth to be met by non-fossil fuels
- Uncertainty around offshore wind
- Is nuclear power coming to NZ?
- Self-powered tsunami protection
- Energy from sound
Australia exiting coal early, green jobs more resilient and the cow jumped over the moon
15/12/2023
- A drop in the ocean
- Australia out of coal by 2038
- Green jobs more resilient
- Boost for regenerative agriculture
- Our own methane emissions
- The cow jumped over the moon
Breaking barriers, CO2 potency increasing and a welcome bluebottle
08/12/2023
- Busting barriers
- Cooling emissions could be cut be 60%
- CO2 potency on the rise
- Climate resilience pays off
- 375 million EVs from a desert
- Bluebottle to be seen around the coast
- Is AI costing the earth?
- 24 hour solar
- Using that CO2
Underestimating cyclone costs, It’s broke and Volcanic industrial heat storage
01/12/2023
- Storms and cyclones carry a larger toll than we’re accounting for
- Oil and gas industry not fixing it
- Better late
- SAF flying high
- Heat cell storage for process heat
Climate and health, ravenous trees and quieter Sundays
24/11/2023
- Climate change and health
- Ravenous trees
- Do as a I say not as I do (2)
- Peaceful Sundays
- Water purifying energy generators
- Water purifying energy generators (2)
- Irony, excess or both
Passive cooling breakthrough, Energy efficient robots and Our debt to whales
17/11/2023
- NDCs still short
- Auckland bounces back
- Energy efficient robots on the way
- Passive cooling breakthrough
- The 140 year old, new renewable
- Solar record - one third breached
- Our debt to sperm whales
- A Mod revival
Inconsistencies, Agricultural emissions increasing, Supply chain risks and Self-sufficient desalination
10/11/2023
- Do as I say not as I do
- China dominates solar
- Good news and bad
- Agriculture emitting more
- Insurer logic
- Self-sufficient desalination
- A building of two halves
6 Years and Counting, Nature-tech Taking Off and Game-changing Aluminium Storage
03/11/2023
- 6 years left to hit net zero
- 30% of heavy emitters still relying on fossil fuels beyond 2050
- Nature tech attracting good early-stage investment
- Aluminium storage
- Halloween madness
- Swipe right or left in personal transport
State of the Climate, Tipping Points and Fowl Fuel Cells
27/10/2023
- State of the climate
- Unstoppable transition
- Solar passes tipping point
- Interconnected tipping points
- Speculative climate tech investment bombs
- Green jobs up 667% in four years
- COP27 struggles
- Wine quality to improve
- Hydrogen by fair means or fowl
The Power of AI, Not All Trees are Equal and Beer Under Threat
13/10/2023
- The power of AI
- AI for good
- AI for good 2
- Massive river heat pump switched on
- Have we already hit 1.5C?
- Not all trees are made equal
- 9bn Kgs of invisible e-waste a year
- Beer under threat
Peak Electricity is Now, Aussies Chasing Skills and Shrinking Alps
06/10/2023
- Peak electricity emissions with us
- IMF calls for innovative approaches
- CBAM goes live
- Aussies hunting for skills
- Swiss Alps shrinking fast
- Minecraft goes sustainable – sort of
1.5 Still Alive, Tunable Windows and Batteryless e-bikes
29/09/2023
- 1.5 is still alive
- Offshore wind in the doldrums
- Efficiency becomes law
- Circular economy could slash decarbonisation costs for heavy industry
- Smart, tunable windows
- Harvesting electricity at water outlets
- Save 90% emissions on your next phone
- Batteryless e-bike