Global methane levels have hit an all-time high after what appears to be a near-record yearly atmospheric increase in the potent greenhouse gas.
The concentration of methane in the Earth’s atmosphere reached nearly 1,875 parts per billion in 2019, up from the previous year’s 1,866 parts per billion, according to preliminary data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Methane levels at all-time high after near-record increase in gas 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/...mate-change-methane-levels-record-noaa-global-warming-a9462741.html

Největší evropská fotovoltaická elektrárna s instalovaným špičkovým výkonem 500 MWp začala vyrábět elektřinu. Elektrárna Núñez de Balboa, skládající se z více než 1,4 milionu kusů solárních panelů, se nachází ve slunném Španělsku. Provozovatel elektrárny, společnost Iberdrola, ji postavila během jediného roku za necelých 300 milionů EUR.

Španělský energetický gigant Iberdrola uvedl v minulém týdnu do provozu zatím největší evropskou fotovoltaickou elektrárnu. Elektrárna Núñez de Balboa na jihu Španělska má instalovaný špičkový výkon 500 MWp, do sítě pak může dodávat až 391 MW. Elektrárnu tvoří celkem 1 430 000 solárních panelů, 115 střídačů a 2 rozvodny a rozprostírá se na území čítajícím téměř 1000 hekatrů.

Největší fotovoltaická elektrárna v Evropě začala dodávat elektřinu do sítě
https://oenergetice.cz/...oje/nejvetsi-fotovoltaicka-elektrarna-evrope-zacala-dodavat-elektrinu-site

Europe’s green energy companies are emerging as shelter for investors in market fallout from the coronavirus.
Utilities in the region are holding up better than other industries in the health crisis. While the Stoxx 600 Index of European shares fell 21% since the start of the year, the utilities component of that measure has declined only 14%. Within that, renewable power producers are outperforming their less green rivals.

https://www.bloomberg.com/...tilities-give-shelter-to-investors-as-virus-roils-markets?sref=52ZWO6YM

A jeste jeden eko koncept, kterej ma okurkama zabranit hladu po brexitu

https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/...a/wastewater-at-the-heart-of-multibillion-pound-20200414/

Minimalne zajmavy, i kdyz klima to nezachrani

Biomass - Breakthrough Renewable Energy Development from VGrid Energy Systems - Renewable Energy Magazine, at the heart of clean energy journalism
https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/...-renewable-energy-development-from-vgrid-energy-20200414/

Stop Adani
4 hod ·
Adani's finances are in serious trouble. This week the Adani Group has been forced to repay $100M in debt on Abbot Point port, with another $1B due by 2022. Plus, their chairman, Gautam Adani, has lost more than $9B in personal wealth during the COVID-19 crisis.

And here's the kicker. Literally no bank will touch Adani, leaving the family to fund their $2B Carmichael mega mine and rail project themselves. When you do the maths, the Adani family would be wise to walk away from this financial disaster. But we can't sit back and count on Adani to make good financial decisions. People power has stopped Adani getting finance and it can still #StopAdani!

"Hope offers us clarity that, amid the uncertainty ahead, there will be conflicts worth joining and the possibility of winning some of them. And one of the things most dangerous to this hope is the lapse into believing that everything was fine before disaster struck, and that all we need to do is return to things as they were. Ordinary life before the pandemic was already a catastrophe of desperation and exclusion for too many human beings, an environmental and climate catastrophe, an obscenity of inequality. It is too soon to know what will emerge from this emergency, but not too soon to start looking for chances to help decide it. It is, I believe, what many of us are preparing to do."

'The impossible has already happened': what coronavirus can teach us about hope | World news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/...d/2020/apr/07/what-coronavirus-can-teach-us-about-hope-rebecca-solnit

NEW | The finances of the oil and gas industry are so dismal that the major banks that have funded the money-losing fracking boom are now exploring taking the unusual step of taking over the oil companies that cannot afford to pay back the banks' loans.

Big Banks Pull Financing, Prepare To Seize Assets From Collapsing Oil and Gas Industry | DeSmog
https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/04/13/big-banks-pulling-financing-oil-and-gas-industry

TUHO:

World Meteorological Organization
NOAA confirms that Earth had its 2nd-hottest March on record
The year to date also ranked 2nd-warmest for the globe, whilst Europe and Asia had their warmest January-March ever recorded.

https://bit.ly/3a8e1DV

Jamestown o cenovy valce mezi ropnymi staty

News about a new deal on oil production cuts, agreed between Russia and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and then augmented by the communique of the G20 energy minsters last Friday (April 10), had been expected; as such, the developments made little if any discernible impression on global energy markets. The benchmark Brent Crude price has continued to hover around $30 per barrel, a long way from the $60–65 level in January. Some price decline was certainly inevitable considering the unprecedented contraction in demand as a result of the unfolding world-wide recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic; but the spectacular price collapse in February can be directly attributed to Russia’s self-defeating behavior. The decision to break the OPEC+ cartel arrangement was taken personally by President Vladimir Putin and turned out to be a bad blunder, which he has, thus far, refused to acknowledge, attributing the blame to Saudi Arabia. Riyadh, in turn, was bitterly offended by Moscow’s brusque demarche (RBC, April 10).

Russian Oil Bluff Is Called, and Economic Losses Keep Mounting - Jamestown
http://jamestown.org/program/russian-oil-bluff-is-called-and-economic-losses-keep-mounting/

Jamestown o cenovy valce mezi ropnymi staty

News about a new deal on oil production cuts, agreed between Russia and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and then augmented by the communique of the G20 energy minsters last Friday (April 10), had been expected; as such, the developments made little if any discernible impression on global energy markets. The benchmark Brent Crude price has continued to hover around $30 per barrel, a long way from the $60–65 level in January. Some price decline was certainly inevitable considering the unprecedented contraction in demand as a result of the unfolding world-wide recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic; but the spectacular price collapse in February can be directly attributed to Russia’s self-defeating behavior. The decision to break the OPEC+ cartel arrangement was taken personally by President Vladimir Putin and turned out to be a bad blunder, which he has, thus far, refused to acknowledge, attributing the blame to Saudi Arabia. Riyadh, in turn, was bitterly offended by Moscow’s brusque demarche (RBC, April 10).

jamestown.org/program/russian-oil-bluff-is-called-and-economic-losses-keep-mounting/

The Normal Economy Was Broken by the Coronavirus Pandemic and Is Never Coming Back
https://foreignpolicy.com/.../unemployment-coronavirus-pandemic-normal-economy-is-never-coming-back/

Crowdfunding campaign launched for financing of solar park construction | News | ERR
https://news.err.ee/1076290/crowdfunding-campaign-launched-for-financing-of-solar-park-construction
#comunity owned power plant
#estonsko

An unusually warm, dry summer in Ukraine has triggered wildfires in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, and heavy winds could transfer contaminated smoke to the capital of Kyiv and rural areas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/world/europe/chernobyl-wildfire.html

Jiří Malík
26. srpna 2018
A je to v kešeni. Po 15 letech práce můžeme prohlásit, že pokud v ČR napravíme zemědělskou půdu a vrátíme jí její 100% jímací schopnost a zároveň provedeme celoplošnou zádrž vody podle modelu Zdoňov, kde jsme před pár týdny dokončili výpočty ploch a objemů zádrže na 20,5 km2 (dva roky práce), které spočívají i ve znefunkčnění meliorací, dostaneme objem zádrž vody v ČR 1,5x větší, než je objem všech našich 165 stávajících přehrad. Betonová lobby tedy nemá pravdu, že pořádný objem se dá zadržet jen přehradami a zádrž v krajině nemá smysl. Je to přesně naopak. Více zde: zivavoda.biz/brozura. Prosím všude šiřte. Je to jeden z nejdůležitějších poznatků poslední doby v ČR. Děkujeme panu exministru Moldanovi, panu profesoru Frýdovi a panu europoslanci Pocovi za převzetí záštity nad modelem Zdoňov - který by se mohl stát i evropským pilotním projektem.

LIMECEJ: mozna nasledky sabine? https://www.denik.cz/z_domova/boure-sabine-cesko-pocasi-20200214.html

From climate change to pandemics: we can fix this mess together, argues philosopher
Our collective future faces a now-or-never moment, Todd Dufresne writes in The Democracy of Suffering
https://www.cbc.ca/...change-to-pandemics-we-can-fix-this-mess-together-argues-philosopher-1.5526117

"In a way… the environmental movement failed… but the failure leads to this new crisis, this new catastrophe [climate change], and that will absolutely change the way the people have to think about the world and their place in it," Dufresne says.

"When you add to that all the other major crises that we're facing, population crises, future refugee problems, unemployment, mass unemployment, people will have to live different kinds of lives."