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UNDP launches new initiative with mayors to boost solar energy
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), together with mayors from eight countries - Moldova, Serbia, Georgia, Tajikistan, Croatia, Somalia, Lebanon and Portugal - today launched a new initiative to boost financing for solar energy in cities across the world.
International Congress & Expo “BIOMASS: Fuel & Power”
Russian Biofuels Association is pleased to invite you to attend the International Congress & Expo “BIOMASS: Fuel & Power”. We would be honored if you considered joining us in Moscow, Russia. The event will be held on April 17-18, 2019 at the Holiday Inn Lesnaya Moscow.
The Month of Energy: ENERPO Open Lectures Series. Current trends and challenges of Russian energy politics
In March 2019, the ENERPO Research Center of the European University at St. Petersburg launches "the Month of Energy". "The Month of Energy" is a series of open lectures on current trends and challenges of Russian energy politics.
IRENA: Transition to Renewable Energy May Create an Entirely Different World
The analysis finds oil and gas-related conflict may decline, as will the strategic importance of some maritime chokepoints. This week at the Assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), political and business leaders from around the world outlined the far-reaching geopolitical implications of an energy transformation driven by the rapid growth of renewable energy.
Germany bids farewell to domestic hard coal mining
On 21 December 2018 the mining of hard coal officially comes to an end in Germany. The closing of the last mine in the Ruhr region marks the end of 200 years of mining the fossil fuel that made Germany’s industrialisation possible. The reason for shutting the last hard coal mines is purely economic and was already taken in 2007.
