Germany, Denmark, Ireland and six other European countries said on Monday they would not support a reform of the EU electricity market, ahead of an emergency meeting of energy ministers to discuss the recent price spike.

The world’s poorest countries are set to benefit from a new climate funding plan to help them cope with the impacts of climate breakdown, in an effort to break the impasse between developed and developing countries at the UN Cop26 climate summit.

Despite pushing ahead with dozens of new coal power plants, China has a new plan to increase wind and solar power in its march towards carbon neutrality.

According to a new study by scientist Puneet Dwivedi from the University of Georgia, swapping petroleum-based aviation fuel with sustainable aviation fuel originating from a type of mustard plant can decrease carbon emissions by nearly 68%.

The burning question going into the Glasgow climate summit is whether major economies can, by 2050, reduce emissions enough to deliver a carbon neutral world in which humanity no longer adds planet-warming gases to the atmosphere. Less talked about — but rising quickly on the climate agenda — are tools and techniques to pull CO2 straight out of the air.

In a media release on Tuesday (Oct 19), the Energy Market Authority (EMA) laid out three pre-emptive measures, which include setting up standby fuel facilities for power generation companies (gencos) to draw upon to generate electricity if needed.

A biomass power plant in Punjab generates elecricity using paddy stubble amid the problem of stubble burning by farmers in the state.

A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore has discovered a method to boost energy generation from microalgae, eliminating reliance on non-renewable sources such as fossil fuels and natural gas.

When Malaysia enters negotiations at global climate change talks beginning at the end of this month in Glasgow, it will be with momentum from a sweeping and ambitious national plan for a greener and cleaner future.

China’s widening power crisis, which has forced rationing across the country and threatens to derail economic growth, is prompting policy makers to rethink the pace of the nation’s energy transition.

The ways electricity is both consumed (more of it, notably by cars) and produced (also more of it, increasingly through renewable sources, see chart 1) are changing. Balancing the supply and demand of energy is never easy, as recent mayhem in European gas prices have shown.

Extreme volatility in energy markets will present a continued risk unless investment in clean power is tripled in the next decade, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday.