One of Australia’s biggest windfarms will double its capacity to 2,000 megawatts, providing enough power for 1.4m homes and accelerating Queensland’s exit from fossil fuel-sourced electricity. Spain-based Acciona Energia announced on Monday it would extend a windfarm already being built within the MacIntyre Precinct, a region about 200km south-west of Brisbane.

France and Spain on Thursday joined a pledge to stop sales of gasoline-driven vehicles by 2035, five years earlier than previously planned, part of efforts to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy. The countries made their pledges at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh, among a group of new signatories to the Zero Emission Vehicles Declaration (ZEVD), launched at last year's conference in Glasgow.

South Africa could produce over five million tonnes of green hydrogen a year by 2040, according to a plan it presented at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt that aims to catapult the world's 13th biggest polluter into a greener future. The plan envisages reaching annual production of 10 million tonnes by 2050 and creating a local market worth $20 billion, employing around 50,000 people.

Business activity is picking up across South-east Asia, as governments in the region lift or relax various restrictions put in place to curb the spread of Covid-19. The S&P Global Asean Manufacturing PMI hit an 11-month high in September, as manufacturing conditions improved at their quickest pace in nearly a year. A report by S&P Global Market Intelligence, released last month, said: "Companies signalled steeper increases in output, new orders, purchasing activity and employment, while business confidence remained historically strong."

Space chiefs are to investigate whether electricity could be beamed wirelessly from orbit into millions of homes. The European Space Agency will this week likely approve a three-year study to see if having huge solar farms in space could work and be cost effective. The eventual aim is to have giant satellites in orbit, each able to generate the same amount of electricity as a power station. Research ministers will consider the idea at a Paris meeting on Tuesday.

Crisis-weary European governments that are spending big to cradle their economies through the energy crunch risk causing longer-term harm by spreading fiscal support for firms and households too widely. With inflation at record levels and central banks rushing to lift borrowing costs to rein in prices, policymakers and economists are warning of a counterproductive clash if countries don’t follow a rule that’s come to be known as the three Ts: temporary, targeted and timely.

This month, all eyes turn to Egypt where world leaders will gather at COP27 to mobilize a global response to the climate crisis. While carbon and climate remain at the central focus, it is impossible to ignore the shifting landscape in which governments will seek to negotiate agreements. Extreme poverty, exacerbated by years of COVID-19 pandemic – along with energy and food insecurity driven by geopolitical conflict – loom large over the summit.

Capturing carbon dioxide emissions and turning them into stone, and operating greenhouses powered completely by geothermal energy. These are some innovations being touted in Iceland as it pursues a sustainability target of achieving carbon neutrality by 2040, said Ms Aslaug Arna Sigurbjornsdottur, the country’s Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation.

Ties between Asean and the United States got a boost on Saturday as they formally upgraded their relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership. The agreement will seek to allow both sides to work more closely together in wide-ranging aspects for the long term, including areas such as energy research and climate change.

Tenaga Nasional Bhd's (TNB) wholly owned subsidiary, GSPARX Sdn Bhd, has formed a partnership with Smart Modular Technologies Inc to enable Smart to meet its environment, social, and governance (ESG) commitment to attaining 100% electricity powered by renewable energy.

Nine countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas have joined an international alliance to develop more offshore wind energy at COP27 on Tuesday. Belgium, Colombia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, the UK, and the US signed up to the Global Offshore Wind Alliance (GOWA), which wants to ramp up wind power to tackle the climate, energy and security crises.

He has been a nuclear researcher for over 30 years, and Suwoto has seen Indonesians’ interest in nuclear energy wax and wane. Public acceptance of it in Southeast Asia’s most populous country dipped to 49.5 per cent in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, compared with 59.7 per cent in 2010.