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Year: 2024

Microsoft says its new data centres won’t need water

A photo of a Microsoft data centre in the Netherlands. Data centres use enormous volumes of water.

All the company’s new data centre designs will employ this cooling technology, and the first sites using it will come online in late 2027.

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India now outpaces China in green investments as renewables surge

A solar farm in India.

The momentum is being driven by India’s push to build out local clean energy capacity to limit reliance on China, and the goal of exporting.

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Türkiye’s solar surge largely offsets rapid growth in peak demand

Solar farm superimposed with flag of Turkey.

The clean energy source now meets nearly a fifth (18%) of the country’s peak electricity demand, up from just 2.5% in 2017.

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China’s EV boom set to push gasoline demand off a cliff

A photo of traffic in Shanghai, which has lots of electric vehicles

Electric models and hybrids have accounted for more than half of retail passenger vehicle sales in the four months from July

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Inside the climate ‘positive’ buildings movement

Solar panels on the roof of a building.

Buildings — the creation, running and dismantling of them — make up some 40% of the world’s carbon emissions.

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How the aviation sector can slash the climate impact of contrails — at little cost

A photo of contrails behind a plane. Contrails contribute to climate change.

Tweaking the routes of just a few flights could halve contrail warming by 2040 and would cost passengers less than €4, study finds.

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Inside Denmark’s bold new nature restoration plan

A forest in Denmark, which plans to rewild farmlands.

“Danish nature will be changed in a way not seen since the drainage of wetlands in 1864,” the government says.

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Indonesia vows to retire all coal plants within 15 years

An aerial view of Jakarta, Indonesia. The country plans to switch quickly from coal to renewable electricity.

The country will also retire all other fossil fuel plants and add more than 75GW of renewable energy capacity over the same time frame.

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Solar installations are now mandatory for large parking lots in France

A photo of a parking lot covered in solar panels.

The aim is to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy in the country, which already operates one of the world’s cleanest power grids.

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Australia’s electricity sector emissions slide amid wind and solar ‘revolution’

Households in Australia have rapidly adopted solar systems

Based on projects currently under construction, it’s expected that the share of renewables will climb to 48% by the end of 2025.

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