The solar panels are expected to generate the equivalent amount of electricity required to power over 4,500 U.K. homes and will reduce the company’s carbon footprint by 6,000 tonnes of CO2 annually.
Scottish Power has become the first integrated energy company in the U.K. to make the shift from coal and gas generation to wind power.
Tens of thousands of people marched in Paris and other major cities across France on Saturday to call for greater action on climate change.
The Japanese solar sector grew from 13.6 GW at the end of 2013 to 48.6 GW by the end of 2017, making it one of the fastest growing solar sectors in the world.
Designed to fly up to four passengers for distances between 500km to 5,000km, the Element One is described as a quiet, ultra-light, zero carbon aircraft “several orders of magnitude better” than battery-electric aircrafts.
Figures reveal that more than 14,800 renewable energy patents were filed worldwide in 2017 — a 43 per cent rise on the 10,500 in the previous year.
Senior officials from Beijing, Fuzhou, Qingdao and Shanghai have pledged to remove greenhouse gas emissions from their buildings.
The Connecticut Green Bank was established in 2011, and since then has been working to accelerate the deployment of clean energy.
The World Bank committed $1 billion to finance battery-storage systems in developing countries, and expects its participation to attract another $4 billion in backing.
A coalition of investors managing over US$5.6 trillion in assets joined a coalition of more than 70 large food companies in calling for zero deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado region.
