The arid Middle Eastern desert climate offers little in the way of natural resources. But it does boast of brilliant and fierce sunlight. Last Monday, Israel’s Ministry of Energy and Water Resources announced the issuing of 19 additional licenses for mid-sized projects for a total of 27 MW of photovoltaic (PV) solar power. MORE >>

PV capacity in Europe is expected to jump from 28 GW last year to close to 100 GW by 2015 – with the potential to nudge 350 GW globally by 2020. This would represent a carbon emissions mitigation level of 1.4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide globally each year. Government / Industry solar power europe MORE >>

Some cars to be as clean as electric train travel by 2020. According to the former engineer, carmakers are looking to achieve 40g/km of carbon emissions by the year 2020. They’ve worked on electric drivetrains, cars fueled by biogas, fuel cells and even conceived of vehicles propelled by magnetic levitation. If the mean occupancy of 1.6 MORE >>

It has already surpassed the targets set for 2012, and is on track to achieve the goals for 2020. The European Commission today formally adopted a Roadmap for transforming the European Union into a competitive low carbon economy by 2050. MORE >>

Ibrahim Babelli, nuclear consultant at the King Abdullah Centre for Atomic and Renewable Energy said: “There are a lot of things that need to be done, but our target is 2020.”. High birth rates coupled with domestic subsidies have resulted in soaring energy demand. Now Saudi Arabia has turned to nukes to keep it all going. MORE >>