Portuguese environment minister João Pedro Matos Fernandes has confirmed that his country will stop burning coal by 2030 at the latest.
Morocco—which recently hosted the COP22 summit to discuss implementing the Paris Climate Agreement—is emerging as an increasingly impressive contender in the transition away from fossil fuels.
Pacific Islanders are among the most vulnerable people to climate change. This is a way of fighting back.
Microsoft has announced its largest ever wind energy deal to power its cloud data centre in Wyoming, USA
Representatives from 47 of the world's most disadvantaged nations have pledged to generate all their future energy needs from renewables.
The latest figures show that 52 percent of the country’s energy needs – including electricity, heating, and fuel – are met by renewables. This is the highest of any EU country.
The Government in Canada is promising to run all government operations on renewable energy within a decade. The switch is to be complete by 2025.
The island nation of Cape Verde has pledged to power the entire country with nothing but renewable energy by the year 2020, and vowed to help other African states work towards the same goal in future.
Costa Rica has run on 100-percent renewable energy for the past 113 days, edging closer to its goal of being completely free from fossil fuels.
Salt Lake City has committed to transition to 100% renewable energy sources by 2032, as well as reduce carbon emissions citywide by 80% by 2040.
Australia's third-biggest island could combine wind, solar, PV and battery storage to fuel own electricity needs - and set a blueprint for the rest of the country
Of the 15 nations to fully ratify the Paris climate agreement on the day it was signed in April 2016, 13 were tropical island states.
WWF report says Australia could completely replace fossil fuel "baseload" power with existing renewable energy technologies.
Companies are starting to take the lead in the drive toward decarbonization. Now, companies across the world are signing up to voluntarily derive all their power from renewable sources.
This past weekend Germany generated so much electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind that suppliers effectively paid users to consume energy.
