Why climate change is Africa’s biggest ‘existential challenge’

Climate change is the biggest “existential challenge” to Africa’s development and is eroding many of its development gains, according to the

Inside Africa's pitch at UN climate change conference

"Act now" will be Africa’s clarion call at the COP27 as the continent intensifies calls for a just energy transition amid a worsening climate crisis.

French oil giant EACOP project will harm East Africa with toxic fumes, warn groups

Civil society groups have accused Uganda and Tanzania of rushing to sign East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) deals with TotalEnergies and China’s CNOOC before locals were properly briefed on its environmental and health risks.

Geothermal power station in Kenya improves operations thanks to IoT

The Olkaria Geothermal Power Station in Kenya has been able to improve operations by implementing internet of things (IoT) technology.

ETHIOPIA: Precise to manufacture 250,000 solar home systems locally

Precise Consult is launching a programme to manufacture and distribute 250,000 solar home systems in Ethiopia.

Study on more ambitious 2030 targets for renewables and energy efficiency

10 of 13 ‘Flagship’ CCS Projects Failed to Deliver, IEEFA Analysis Concludes

After a half-century of research and development, carbon capture and storage projects are far more likely to fail than to succeed, and nearly three-quarters of the carbon dioxide they manage to capture each year is sold off to fossil companies and used to extract more oil, according to a sweeping

Communities celebrate as Court sets aside Shell’s exploration right off the Wild Coast of South Africa

Makhanda, South Africa: Today, the High Court in Makhanda ruled that Shell’s exploration right to conduct seismic surveys on the Wild Coast of South Africa was granted unlawfully and therefore set it aside. 

Joint hottest summer on record for England

England had its joint hottest summer in a series which runs from 1884, according to provisional statistics from the Met Office.

World’s oceans capturing unrelenting climate change

The world’s

Greenhouse Gases, Sea Levels Hit Record Highs in 2021

Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, and ocean heat all hit record highs in 2021, according to an international science report.

Switching The World To Renewable Energy Will Cost $62 Trillion, But The Payback Would Take Just 6 Years

Mark Jacobson and his team have published a renewable energy study in which they argue the payback time is just 6 years.

PM Names Climate Denier as UK Energy Minister, Vows More North Sea Oil and Gas

Newly-installed British Prime Minister Liz Truss appointed a reputed climate change denier to head her energy ministry and vowed to increase North Sea oil and gas drilling in the hours after she took office Tuesday.

German chancellor rejects calls to reverse nuclear power plant closures

Olaf Scholz says country has enough energy to get through winter after Russia cut gas supplies

Let's Act Together for the Air we Share

99% of our world is exposed to polluted air causing an estimated 7 million premature deaths every year.

Oil and gas firms’ green investments fail to match promise of publicity – study

BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalEnergies spend $750m a year burnishing climate credentials but only 12% of capital on low-carbon development

Global fossil fuel subsidies almost doubled in 2021, analysis finds

Support amid huge industry profits is a ‘roadblock’ to tackling climate crisis, says International Energy Agency

World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds

Giant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change

The west is ignoring Pakistan’s super-floods. Heed this warning: tomorrow it will be you

Those who don’t die from the floods risk death by starvation – yet you’ve probably heard little about the devastation

Will Charles III be as green a king as he was a prince?

New king will have to eschew grand statements on climate crisis but his role does not stop him talking to the PM in private