Ireland

Launching its renewable energy strategy, the Irish government today announced that it will meet its goal of generating 40% of its electricity from renewable resources by 2020.  The government also confirmed that it is engaged in trade talks with Britain to export renewable energy.

Marks & Spencer, one of the leading UK retailers, recently announced that it is doubling the amount of clean energy that its purchasing from small independent producers. This increase means Marks & Spencer will generate enough renewable energy to satisfy the electricity used by 100 M&S Simply Food Stores.

Here are two very different advanced biofuel strategies: Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRE) is producing algae from byproducts at one of its commercial ethanol plants to make biodiesel, and Codexis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDXS) is developing biocatalysts to produce advanced biofuel and pharmaceuticals and to remove carbon from smokestacks.

The week began slowly, picked up stream after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Speech Tuesday night, then ended poorly with the riots in Egypt pushing all stock market sectors

It’s not a way a country wants to reduce their carbon footprint. The global recession hit Ireland so hard that greenhouse gas emissions fell for the first time eight years – dropping 7.9% over 2008. In spite of this unplanned carbon trimming, the country is still about 5% above their Kyoto targets.

Take a really cute polar bear, some creative thinking, the new Nissan Leaf all-electric car and you get a strangely moving car ad.

Finavera Renewables Inc. (CVE: FVR), an up-and-coming Vancouver-based developer and operator of clean energy projects, has singed a pact with GE Energy, the green power arm of General Electric (NYSE: GE), that pave

The European Commission (EU) has announced intentions to sue six of its member states for failure to implement EU environmental rules as national law.

A recent analysis by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) shows that European Union Member States are on course to achieve the goal of 20% renewable energy use by 2020.

The Renault-Nissan Alliance recently announced that Nissan is entering into an agreement with Massachusetts to advance zero-emission mobility throughout the