This article was originally published in the BSR Insight. Companies around the world have embraced the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights…
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Efforts to launch electric, hydrogen and biofuel-powered ships on the high seas could be in line for a $5 billion boost thanks to proposals from…
Last week was a downer for global climate policy. At the United Nations climate conference in Madrid, countries failed to commit to more ambitious goals…
Hundreds of cities and corporations are on the path to zero carbon emissions. For most, to achieve this ambition, the best path is to generate…
The 2010s were a seminal decade for clean energy. At the start of the decade, solar, wind and energy storage technologies largely were dismissed as…
As negotiations at the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 25) wrapped up last weekend, much of the world was left frustrated by the…
Corporations aren’t just interested in renewable energy; they are a leading driver of its growth. According to data from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, corporate…
The U.S. residential solar market just experienced its best-ever quarter, with 712 megawatts (DC) installed. Growth is diversifying across U.S. state markets, and there is…
For the past five years, the U.S. wind industry has been bracing for the phase-down and expiration of its production tax credit — haunted, always, by…
The Europeans are coming. From offshore wind, to solar, to the ballooning corporate renewables market, utilities, oil majors and developers are heading across the Atlantic…
The burgeoning U.S. microgrid industry is set to install less controllable capacity this year than it did last year. But that setback may prove a…
After a wild weather year across the nation, wildfire season is at bay and winter weather games are in play. In this reduced heat of…
Traditional recycling is the greatest example of modern-day greenwashing. Recycling is championed as the strategy to enable a cleaner, healthier world by those businesses…
Two years ago, Samsung Electronics empowered some of its engineers to reimagine ways to reuse the older model Galaxy mobile phones collected through the company’s…
This article is adapted from GreenBiz’s weekly newsletter, Transportation Weekly, running Tuesdays. Subscribe here. At the same time that the United Nation climate talks were…
Solar energy grew by leaps and bounds in the 2010s. According to Wood Mackenzie, global annual solar installations grew more than six-fold this past decade,…
After months of lobbying, the clean energy industry secured minimal tax credit extensions in the $1.37 trillion end-of-year deal U.S. lawmakers eked out this week…
General Electric has made supplying clean-energy equipment a central pillar of its future business, but in the meantime the company continues to shed renewables projects…
Proposals for Europe’s offshore energy islands are gaining momentum, with regulatory issues rather than technology now looking like the largest barrier. If massive offshore wind…
For too long, the rhetoric around what storage can do for the grid vastly outweighed the actual doing. This year, the industry closed that gap…