Global carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector fell by 2% last year, the biggest fall since at least 1990, owing to reduced coal usage in Europe and the United States, a study showed on Monday.
Norway says it will build a wind park in an area used for reindeer grazing despite U.N. calls to suspend the project to study the impact on the indigenous herders' livelihoods.
While coal mining firms, utility companies and power consumers can benefit indirectly from the subsidy, the big winners are a diverse group of investors who identified the incentive as an easy way to make money.
Britain has asked its climate change experts to advise on whether it should set a date to meet a net zero emissions target, the government said on Monday.
A delegation of workers from U.S. oil refining companies that oppose the nation's biofuels policy converged on Washington on Wednesday to lobby lawmakers to find a way to lessen the regulation's costs without hurting corn farmers and makers of the alternative fuels.
Budweiser said it has switched all its U.S. brewing to renewable electricity and is adding a clean energy logo to its labels as part of a global shift to green power by its parent Anheuser-Busch InBev.
