The challenge:Greater Manchester, United Kingdom, has set an ambitious CO2 emission reduction target of 48% by 2020, as part of its Low-Carbon Economic Area (LCEA) plan. This will require significant ...

The challengeChanging economic structures, intensifying environmental problems and increasing demand-related requirements all mean that companies need to come up with more resource-efficient ...

  The challengeTaiwan is a small and highly populated island, where over 99% of the consumed energy has to be imported, of which 90 % is mainly coming from petrochemicals. CO2 accounts for ...

The challenge:Energy from biomass accounts for almost two thirds of the renewable energy generation in the European Union. Unlike other renewable energy sources though, biomass is a limited resource, ...

The challengeThe challenge in Finland as in many other European countries comes from the changes happening within the global economy, the shift of the manufacturing industry to the emerging ...

The challenge:Renewable heating remains an underdeveloped industry, with more than 80% of the EU’s heat and hot water production still reliant on oil and gas.District heating systems represent ...