Category Archives: Energy
The Energy Challenge
The International Energy Agency released its 2012 World Energy Outlook yesterday; it presents analytical insights into today’s energy market, environmental issues and economic development with projections for 2035. It reveals the current transformation taking place within the oil and gas … Continue reading
Sandy’s trying to telling us something
With ‘Sandy’ raging for all she’s worth across the pond, flooding the streets of New York and making the headlines for the all the wrong reasons; we should remind ourselves of the increasing frequency at which extreme weather events have … Continue reading
Parliamentarians to Consider the Science behind Bioenergy
An event in Westminster on Tuesday 10th July will allow parliamentarians, and other interested individuals, to consider the science behind bioenergy. Organised by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), and sponsored by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), … Continue reading
Government to tick all the boxes with the new bioenergy strategy
The UK Government’s new Bioenergy Strategy released last week aims to accelerate the use of renewable energy generated sustainably from biomass. Bioenergy is stated in the strategy as ‘one of the most versatile forms of low carbon and renewable energy’ … Continue reading
Allowing Humanity to Flourish in a Crowded World
The Royal Society yesterday published ‘People and the Planet‘, a report which marks the end of nearly two years of work by a group including both the British Ecological Society’s current President, Professor Georgina Mace FRS and a past-President of … Continue reading
MEPs call for new environmental framework for the EU
Voting in two resolutions last week, MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) called for the European Commission to introduce a Seventh Environmental Action Programme and for higher political priority to go to preserving and restoring damaged ecosystems. The Seventh Environmental … Continue reading
Recent research may require adjusted thinking on the topic of greenhouse gases and climate change
Climate change and the continual rise in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are well established in the environmental policy agenda. However, although the general scientific evidence for climate change is now rarely refuted, the issue continues to be a very large, … Continue reading
UK Government Announces £1bn to Support Carbon Capture and Storage
A new £1 billion competition has been announced by the UK Government to support the development of industrial scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology. So far CCS has been developed on small scales but no commercial scale test of … Continue reading
Carbon Capture and Storage: Challenges and Opportunities – Panel Debate
16:50, Wednesday 23 November 2011, The Geological Society The Carbon Capture and Storage industry in the UK is thought by many to have the potential to become as large as the North Sea oil and gas industry has been over … Continue reading
Economist Debate on Renewables – Live now
The Economist is hosting a live online debate on renewable energy until 18th November. The motion is: “Renewables: This house believes that subsidising renewable energy is a good way to wean the world off fossil fuels” and opening statements are … Continue reading