A territory that has 0.5% of the Earth’s population plans to use up nearly a third of the planet’s remaining carbon budget.
Americans elected Donald Trump, who insisted climate change was a hoax –…
Eskom is currently paying multiple times more for diesel-generated electricity than the price of renewable energy – and it is completely unnecessary.
This is the view of Dennis Dykes, chief…
It's disturbing and infuriating. Major fossil fuel companies are alleged to have known about the science of climate change for decades. One of them–Imperial Oil, the Canadian subsidiary of ExxonMobil…
The past year was the cleanest on record for the British grid as zero carbon technology exceeded electricity supplies from polluting fuels.
Britain has reached an historic clean energy milestone…
During the latest midterm election cycle, the fossil fuel industry paid at least $359 million for federal campaign donations and lobbying.
Corporations, special interest groups, and individuals…
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has highlighted the opportunity for the aviation industry in Europe’s green deal.
At the Sustainable Innovation Forum 2019, organised by Climate…
Two multi-billion dollar government guaranteed investment funds say they will continue investing in fossil fuel companies, despite the government's efforts to fight climate change.
Combined, the…
Over the course of the next three decades, Africa will record faster population growth than anywhere else.
The obvious implications range from the need for more industrialization—to create jobs and…
In the search for alternatives to fossil fuels, gas as an energy vector has the capacity to play a decisive role. To do this, it is absolutely necessary to green our gas as much as possible, writes…
The impact isn’t uniform.
The transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energies is a global pursuit. But it’s faster and more intensive in some countries than in others. Take the case of South Africa…
The Conservative party’s record on tackling the climate crisis has been condemned by leading scientists and former government advisers, as the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, warned that the…
The European Investment Bank wants to purge its loan books of fossil fuels, including natural gas, by 2020. Although the Bank’s final decision is expected to be delivered on 15 October, resistance,…
The European Investment Bank has agreed to phase out its multibillion-euro financing for fossil fuels within the next two years to become the world’s first ‘“climate bank”.
The bank will end its…
Seventeen insurers have restricted insurance services to coal projects in the past two years.
A dozen insurers have adopted policies to stop all direct insurance coverage to new coal projects –…
The European Commission this week reinstated a €6.3 billion British capacity market designed to maintain stable electricity supply, after it was suspended one year ago amid accusations of…
More than 11,000 scientists from around the world have declared a "climate emergency" — and they say the Earth needs fewer people to beat the crisis.
The stark warning in the journal BioScience was…
IRENA is trying to redirect its work to be more focused on subregional regional level, because we think that interconnection and collaboration are essential to promote the rapid deployment over…