A new report from the European Environment Agency has found that almost 17% of Europe's energy was produced by renewables like solar and wind in 2015, while 77% of all newly-installed power capacity in the same year came from renewables.
Europe is facing rising sea levels and more extreme weather like flooding, droughts, heatwaves and storms as a result of climate change, according to a new report published today by the European Environment Agency.
Data released today by the UK Met Office, NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that 2016 was the hottest year on record. What's more 16 of the 17 hottest years on record have occurred this century.
According to estimates produced by analysts Carbon Brief, the UK's windfarms generated more electricity than coal-fired power stations for the first time in 2016.