Global Issues News Headlines for “Energy Security”

Climate Change: The Danish Example

2009-11-20T00:00:00-08:00

Whether a new internationally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and forestall climate change will be signed next month remains to be seen. What is clear though, is that if there is a place in the world that deserves to be the stage where this treaty ought to be signed, it is the Danish capital of Copenhagen.

Energy-Tanzania: Charcoal A Dirty Trade-Off

2009-11-19T00:00:00-08:00

The sun is setting slowly over Dar es Salaam's Tabata Changombe neighbourhood. Ameenah and Skukulu Juma lean against the corrugated iron walls of their makeshift charcoal shop.

Energy: Clean, Green Goo to Power Engines

2009-11-19T00:00:00-08:00

Stephen Mayfield, the recently appointed director of the University of California at San Diego's Algae Biotechnology lab, is taking on a Texas-sized challenge - giving birth to a nascent alternative energy industry.

Afghanistan: Black & Veatch's White Elephant in Kabul

2009-11-19T00:00:00-08:00

In a secluded valley a few miles from Kabul's international airport, Caterpillar turbines custom-built in Germany and giant transformers flown in from Mexico hum away at a brand-new power plant.

Energy-Denmark: Samsø Island, Beyond Fantasy

2009-11-15T00:00:00-08:00

On the Danish island of Samsø, a model of energy self-sufficiency, even cow's milk helps reduce emissions of climate changing gases.

Economy-US: 'Green' Jobs Should Be Black and Brown Too

2009-11-13T00:00:00-08:00

The Barack Obama administration's drive to promote a 'green' economy is not working in the interest of poor people in the United States, especially those who belong to minority communities, according to a new study by a leading think tank.

Climate Change: Africa Told 'Stop Playing the Victim'

2009-11-12T00:00:00-08:00

Critics of carbon trading, a strategy meant to combat global warming, say the buying and selling of carbon credits is being exploited.

Energy-Spain: Windfall for the Grid

2009-11-09T00:00:00-08:00

Wind energy notched up a new record in Spain on Sunday, when it generated 53 percent of total electricity demand nationwide for part of the day, according to official figures announced Monday.

Climate Change-US: Too Little, Too Late for Copenhagen?

2009-11-06T00:00:00-08:00

The momentum that U.S. climate change legislation has picked up in recent weeks will not be enough to get it through prior to the Copenhagen climate talks that kick off Dec. 7. It has also come at a steep price for those most committed to seeing such legislation pass.

Mideast: Israelis Show the Light to Palestinian Herders

2009-11-01T00:00:00-07:00

Hundreds of impoverished Palestinian herders and farmers living in caves and tents in a remote area of the Palestinian West Bank have been provided free electricity due to the ingenuity of two Israeli physicists.