Even if countries meet commitments made under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world is heading for a 3.2 degrees Celsius global temperature rise over pre-industrial levels, leading to even wider-ranging and more destructive climate impacts, warns a report from the UN Environment Programme,

Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to the World Meteorological Organization. This continuing long-term trend means that future generations will be confronted with increasingly severe impacts of climate change, including rising temperatures, more extreme weather, water stress, sea level rise and disruption to marine and land ecosystems.

Enel’s 2020-2022 Plan is also based on the inherent sustainable business model that we have built, while working along the two global trends that are shaping the energy sector: decarbonisation and electrification. The digital transformation of our large network business and the platformisation of all our customer-related activities are key enablers of this plan, boosting efficiencies and introducing additional services.

The estimated increase in Qatar’s LNG production comes after exploration work in the expanded North Field mega project showed that confirmed gas reserves of the field exceeded 1,760 trillion cubic feet,

According to the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI), it is much more expensive to rebuild homes than to initially build them right.

Hybrid microgrids make economic and environmental sense on their own in many places. And blockchain is active in the energy world.

In the near term, Russia's GDP is projected to grow by 1.1 percent in 2019, held back by weak domestic demand and an unfavorable external environment. Growth is forecast to pick up to 1.9 percent in 2020

by 2050 the total investment of AEI is 18.7 trillion U.S. dollars, including 14.3 trillion U.S. dollars in power source, and 4.4 trillion U.S. dollars in power grids, creating about 150 million jobs.

Crude oil production from the major US onshore regions is forecast to increase 49,000 b/d month-over-month in November from 9,084 to 9,133 thousand barrels/day, gas production to increase 263 million cubic feet/day from 84,930 to 85,193 million cubic feet/day .

Poland is seeking a foreign investor for a 49% stake in the company that will be responsible for building and operating six reactors, Piotr Naimski, a top government official in charge of strategic energy infrastructure, said

China also has another 121.3 GW of coal-fired power plants under construction, U.S.-based research network Global Energy Monitor said in its report, nearly enough to power the whole of France.

The total investment for the two new units will reach 39.45 billion yuan ($5.64 billion), and they are scheduled to go into operation in 2025 and 2026.

Philippines growth is projected at 5.7 percent in 2019, unchanged from the October 2019 World Economic Outlook, and to strengthen to 6.3 percent in 2020, underpinned by an increase in government spending and the recent monetary policy easing. The medium-term economic outlook remains favorable, especially if the strong structural reform momentum continues.

If the key reforms move forward expeditiously, Ukraine's economic growth is projected at 3.6 percent in 2019, 3.7 percent in 2020, and 4.2 percent in 2021.

Turkmenistan's economic growth continues to be driven by both the hydrocarbon and nonhydrocarbon sectors. External balances remain in surplus, buoyed by exchange controls in line with import substitution and export promotion objectives.