Conventional climate policy relies on curbing emissions and fossil energy demand. Emission caps on utilities, oil refineries, steel and chemical energies are the principal tool for fighting against climate change. High taxes on gasoline and subsidies on renewable energies complete the tool box. 
This approach aims at making fossil energy more expensive and encouraging investment in [...]

The US Congress is about to take its first ever serious action against climate change. We should applaud this fundamental policy reversal, but not hesitate to tell the USA that the action so far envisaged is far from making an impact on global green house emissions.
US legislation aims at reducing green house gases by 17 [...]

The answer is: yes, though wind power is still far ahead. It  will therefore take 20 years or more before the globally installed solar capacity will exceed that of wind power.
At the end of 2008, the global capacity of wind energy exceeded 100 GW, about half of which installed in Western and Northern Europe, the [...]

No other country on earth wastes more energy than Russia. According to Russian estimates, the country could save about 40 percent of its energy consumption if its energy sector functioned according to Western standards. The losses due to poor heat isolation of buildings, outdated equipment in industry and power generation and transmission are colossal. It [...]