![Australia's New South Wales says it aims to install 12GW of wind and solar power production by 2030, creating 10,000 jobs [FIle: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/318628684.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Australia is one of the world’s biggest carbon emitters per capita and has fallen short of its Paris accord promises.
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![Longi Green Energy Technology, the world's biggest solar panel maker by market value, is one of the firms urging the Chinese government to remove restrictions on adding more production capacity [File: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/365796268.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
A shortage of glass is making solar panels more expensive and delaying production, hurting China’s top manufacturers.
![A woman checks batteries at the Abs solar microgrid station [Photo courtesy of SDF YEMEN]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/yemen-3.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
A women-run solar station near the front line in Abs is empowering its owners and improving life in...
![The combined share of solar photovoltaic and wind energy in global power generation will rise to almost 30 percent in 2030 from 8 percent in 2019, according to the International Energy Agency [File: Third party/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-12T134046Z_1869768164_RC21HJ90EVBI_RTRMADP_3_VIETNAM-ENERGY-SOLAR.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Solar power is set to overtake coal as the world’s main electricity source by 2025, International...
![Oil use will jump to 97.7 million bpd next year, reach 99.8 million bpd in 2022 - above the 2019 level - and grow to 102.6 million bpd by 2024, it predicts [File: Angus Mordant/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/oilopec.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
OPEC sees oil demand peaking by the late 2030s, in contrast to oil industry view that plateau will happen sooner.
![The UK wants to shift away from fossil fuels and meet a goal of zeroing out carbon pollution by the middle of the century [File: Matthew Lloyd/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/328789728.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Boris Johnson’s plan to boost UK’s wind energy capacity and create jobs will need backing of developers, analysts say.
![Water flows through Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam as it undergoes construction on the Nile river in Ethiopia in September 2019 [File: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-05T112416Z_1515739621_RC2BCJ9LCWQQ_RTRMADP_3_ETHIOPIA-SECURITY.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The move could worsen Ethiopia’s dispute with Egypt and Sudan over its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
![Oil-and-gas giant Royal Dutch Shell is retooling its business to prepare for a low-carbon future, but the transition is expected to involve large cost-cutting measures [File: Matthew Busch/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/364988535.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Oil firm joins competitors such as BP and Chevron in cutting jobs as they struggle with falling fossil fuel demand.