Almost half of 812 cities surveyed world-wide still do not have climate adaption plans despite them admitting future risks from water-shortages, heat and disease.
The energy of waves - can we use it?
Renewable ocean power turns the tide
Later this year, the UK government is tipped to reform the Contract for Difference incentive mechanism so that wave and tidal power is calculated separately from offshore wind low carbon marine energy projects will be subsidized to be price competitive, but this time without factoring in much cheaper offshore wind.
This is expected to be a significant indication for investors. Once there s a market signal, then that s us out of the starting blocks as a sector, said Matthew Finn, commercial director at the Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), which has been testing and demonstrating tidal and wave energy device prototypes in the sea for nearly two decades. The hope is to make up ground on first generation technologies like solar and wind that are pretty bankable now and attract a lot of finance, Finn said.
Wyoming s miners: We are net losers of wind energy
When Jim Clayton still worked in a coal mine, he would head to a nearby bar to settle his accounts. The pub effectively became his office. When after 22 years in the industry he quit his job and decided to run the pub instead, it was easy to choose a new name for the place.
These days, The Office has become a hangout for many of those earning a living in the coal, oil and gas industry in northeastern Wyoming.
The Office is situated along a thoroughfare just north of Gillette, the self-declared energy capital of the nation. It used to supply some 40% of the country s coal a source of pride for many locals. And Gillette s mayor has described the energy industry as the town s lifeline.