#nuclear News
Several commitments have been made in 2023 to boost clean energy in the region, and observers are now looking for signs of real action. Meanwhile, solar manufacturers could be in for a bumpy ride.
Carbon & Climate
Q&A: Why deals at COP28 to ‘triple renewables’ and ‘double efficiency’ are crucial for 1.5°C
COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber has urged governments to agree on global goals to triple renewables capacity and double the rate of energy efficiency improvements by 2030.
Newer, smaller reactors are potentially safer and cheaper, but there remain challenges over public support and treatment of radioactive waste.
Even keeping global warming to 2˚C, not the safer 1.5˚C, will need emissions and oil use to peak by 2024 – much earlier than expected based on existing policies.
#nuclear Opinion
The country’s environment and nuclear safety minister lays out the administration's reasons for quitting atomic energy after the last few plants closed this month, even as interest in the technology slowly rises in other parts of the world.
Public opinion will dictate how Japanese seafood is received after the wastewater is disposed of into the Pacific Ocean.
In the World Economic Forum’s 2023 Global Risks Report, nine of the ten biggest risks for the next decade have a water-related component.
To accelerate the net-zero transition and reduce Russia and China's global influence as the world’s leading providers of nuclear projects, shareholder governments must reconsider their outdated stance against the technology.
Policy & Finance
Will the Ukraine war upend the sustainability agenda?
#nuclear Videos
Traditional landowners say a plan to store radioactive waste near sacred Aboriginal sites is a desecration of their heritage.
New ad takes aim at Tepco’s lack of transparency on the water contamination at Fukushima’s nuclear site. Watch the video here:
Japanese firms venture into solar energy storage using discarded electric vehicle batteries, complementing the country's move to continue building more solar power plants.
