Representatives of donor and recipient countries gathered virtually with members of the wider GEF community to discuss priorities and ambitions for the multilateral trust fund’s next four-year…
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attacked powerful politicians for ignoring climate change, as she called for an end to government subsidies for fossil fuels such as coal and oil.
Loss-making Kenya Power got a huge reprieve after the Ministry of Energy announced it will restrict Kenya Electricity Generating Company
KenGen) plans to sell power directly to consumers.
State-…
New Mexico seeks to become an economy less reliant on oil and gas, but the extractive industries continue to exert their might on the state and its people
One of the first bills she pushed sought a…
French power generation company EDF and Uzbekistan’s state hydropower producer, Uzbekhydroenergo, are planning to sign a formal memorandum of understanding and create a 200MW pumped-hydro facility…
The European Union is considering a new tax on imports as it tries to fight climate change, and the U.S. is raising concerns about it.
At issue is what’s known as a border adjustment carbon tax.
Preliminary results suggest the vaccine is up to 77% effective in young children, but researchers await larger studies.
A vaccine against malaria has shown promise in early clinical trials, raising…
Study finds returns must repay four times the payoff from clean energy investment to justify escalating risk.
Coal financing costs have surged over the last decade as investors demand returns four…
Global economies forecast to pour stimulus money into fossil fuels as part of Covid recovery
Carbon dioxide emissions are forecast to jump this year by the second biggest annual rise in history, as…
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Europe and China are leading the installation of new pumped storage capacity – fuelled by the motion of water.
Batteries are now being built at grid-scale in countries including the US, Australia…
Climate group is calling on insurers to stop giving cover to fossil fuel projects.
Climate activists have dumped fake coal outside the headquarters of a major insurance market in London to protest…
UNEP-FI has brought together 43 of the world’s leading banks to form the UN-convened Net-Zero Banking Alliance.
The newest net-zero alliance, the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) brings together an…
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My Octopus Teacher, the heartwarming story about a man's friendship with a common octopus, took home the Oscar for best documentary feature Sunday night.
The movie brought international attention to…
A joint venture in Japan has scrapped plans for a coal-fired power plant, leaving the country with no new construction on the horizon as companies drop the dirty fuel amid tighter emissions rules and…
The consortium behind Redondo Peninsula Energy Inc. pulled out of the planned 660-megawatt coal-fired facility in Zambales province.
RP Energy is a joint venture among Meralco PowerGen Corp., a unit…
Company’s shareholder wealth destruction is extreme and ongoing
Whitehaven Coal has long set its strategic direction on the implicit assumption that the world would fail to deliver on the Paris…
The French energy firm Total SE announced yesterday that it has halted all operations on its $20 billion investment in a liquefied natural gas project in northern Mozambique as a result of the…