The Carbon Column – Reflecting on 2022

In this post I reflect on some of the stories in 2022

Will this council-backed energy firm be the first to ‘collapse’ in 2022?

Together Energy could reportedly run out of funding by the end of January

COP26 announced Glasgow Climate Pact as Alok Sharma said “I am deeply sorry”

Adopted by nearly 200 countries, the agreement asks all countries to strengthen their current emissions targets in 2022

Germany passes ‘coal-exit’ law to phase out fossil fuels by 2038

German lawmakers have voted a roadmap for the coal-free era in the country, which includes abandoning nuclear power by 2022

Danish district heat plant to phase out coal and slash 375k tonnes of CO2

The green switch is estimated to reduce the annual Danish CO2 emissions by 1%, the equivalent of replacing 200,000 cars with EVs

India projected to fall short of its target to install 60GW of wind power by 2022

The Global Wind Energy Council and MEC Intelligence say the Indian wind industry will fall short of its target by as much as 10GW

India ‘must install 10GW of renewables each year’

India needs to install more than 10GW of renewables each year between 2017 and 2022 to meet its green target. According to a new study, total annual investments in Indian utility-scale projects crossed the $10 billion (£8.18bn) mark last year, a figure that will need to reach $14 billion (£11.45bn) to hit the country’s 175GW renewables target […]