Six financial institutions strengthened their commitment to ending coal power financing by signing on to the Powering Past Coal Alliance during Ceres' 2020 Investor Summit on Climate Risk.
The sustainable revolution hasn’t reached the top levels of the biggest U.S. and European banks.
The world’s largest banks have issued billions in loans to sustainable businesses and taken some…
Even after the world's largest economies adopted the landmark Paris agreement to tackle the climate crisis in late 2015, governments continued to pour $77 billion a year in public finance into…
Construction of the Haringvliet Zuid energy park, that combines a large-scale solar farm (38 MW) with a wind farm and a battery storage system, has begun. Belectric will also take on the operation…
At stake in the lawsuit is the single biggest effort by the United States to fight the climate crisis.
Led by California, nearly two dozen states sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over its…
Environmentalists say the Morrison government is directing emissions reduction funding to polluting companies.
Fossil fuel industry groups and companies have applauded new climate change measures…
I can't tell you what I was doing on June 23, 1988, though I can take a guess.
I was a week or so from finishing my journalism course and — how times have changed — I'd already been offered a job.…
Trillion-dollar fund also puts BHP on ‘observation list’ carrying risk of future divestment.
Norway’s gigantic sovereign wealth fund has dumped its stake in the Australian energy company AGL, which…
Five years on from divesting from fossil fuels, the Rockefeller fund has released a new case detailing its success.
This week, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) released a new case study detailing…
The European Commission is considering three options for future investments in gas infrastructure as Europe moves towards “climate neutrality” by 2050, according to a leaked memo seen by EURACTIV.
A…
Republican members of Congress are coming to the defense of oil, gas and coal companies they say face “discriminatory” lending practices from Wall Street banks that have caved to pressure from…
Financing a thermal coal project in Australia just got a little bit harder after Westpac Banking Corp. said it would exit the sector by 2030, leaving Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. as…
New York, NY — Bowing to pressure from climate and shareholder activists, JP Morgan Chase will be demoting former Exxon CEO Lee Raymond from his Lead Independent Director position on the bank’s board…
Revealed: Oil and mining firms – some with ties to Trump officials – taking advantage of funding, review shows
US fossil fuel companies have taken at least $50m in taxpayer money they probably won’t…
For at least the last decade, renewable energy seems to have been accelerating at a ferocious pace. Every other day you can read about a new technological breakthrough or another incredible milestone…
Leaders condemn backing of global sectors that disregard green economy goals.
Polluting industries around the world are using the coronavirus pandemic to gain billions of dollars in bailouts and to…
But roughly $150bn of subsidies, carbon pricing and more supportive policies may be needed for green hydrogen to reach full decarbonisation potential, finds analyst
A major rollout of green hydrogen…
Japan has laid out its plans to tackle greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris agreement in the run-up to UN climate talks this year, becoming the first large economy to do so.
But its proposals…