The European Commission has proposed a new 30 % energy savings target for 2030 as part of its new vision on energy efficiency beyond 2020.

The Scottish Government has launched a new food-waste reduction scheme designed to encourage restaurant goers to take their leftovers home with them.

A new state-of-the-art Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) in Peterborough is expected to help the city divert 95% of its waste from landfill.

German energy firm RWE, one of the world's largest operators of offshore wind farms, has announced plans to expand into new markets, including large-scale solar PV.

Swedish energy firm Vattenfall will start construction on its first UK solar project later this month, the company has announced.

Mina Sedaghat has developed techniques and algorithms to manage and schedule the resources in these large data centres atmore efficiently and with a lower environmental impact.

Four renewable energy projects set to be developed in Africa and the Caribbean have been awarded $46 million in funding.

Energy Efficiency Expo will become an annual event and conference starting 2017.

French energy giant Engie has announced a partnership with the International Renewable Energy Agency that will aim to create enabling conditions for the global deployment of 1,000GW of solar energy.

Countries can deliver on the promises of the historic Paris climate change agreement by rapidly scaling up wind and solar power to 36% of the global energy mix by 2030.

Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying presented his latest Policy Address yesterday, outlining the Government’s vision for the upcoming year.

Up to 8,000 zero-carbon homes are set to be built in the UK thanks to a £1.1bn deal between UK solar developers WElink Energy and British Solar Renewables and the China National Building Materials Group.

More than 15,000 tonnes of unused Christmas food - weighing the equivalent of 45 Boeing 747's - was diverted from landfill and transformed into festive renewable energy by one food waste recycler over the festive period.

It's technically possible for each state to replace fossil fuel energy with entirely clean, renewable energy, experts say. In a new study, Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, and colleagues, are the first to outline how each of the 50 states can achieve such a transition by 2050.

Five new projects to develop low carbon and energy efficient technologies in the automotive industry have been granted funding worth £75 million.

As countries was encouraged to reach an agreement on climate at the UN Climate Change Conference in France in last December, The Telegraph examines which European nations are due to reach their renewable energy targets. But many European nations are far from reaching their current targets on renewable energy consumption, according to figures published by Eurostat.

David Cameron has continued to defend the government’s position on clean energy policy during today’s Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs), claiming Britain is leading a “renewables revolution”.

A new consultation to ensure regulation in the energy industry encourages innovation has been launched.

The UK invested $23.4 billion (£16bn) in renewables in 2015.

Green buses and coaches made up 53.5% of all new buses registered in the UK in 2015.