Legal & General Investment Management, Britain’s biggest fund manager, piles pressure on oil firm
Britain’s biggest fund manager has piled pressure on Shell after joining a shareholder rebellion…
Circular economy and sustainability are buzzwords synonymous with globetrotting NGO executives and professors whose high sounding lectures saturate the atmosphere in the ivory towers that are the…
When the Guardian began reporting on the climate crisis 70 years ago, people were worried that warmer temperatures would make it harder to complain about the weather. Today it is the biggest…
Taps are now shut off two days a week, and worse is to come unless action is taken on climate crisis
Taiwan’s Sun Moon Lake is so low that parts of it have dried and turned to grass. Jetties that…
People all over the world are reeling from the one-two punch of climate change and COVID-19. The overlapping crises are exposing and intensifying patterns of disadvantage, marginalization and…
Exclusive: consultations for asthma and other respiratory infections go up with increased dirty air, finds study
A “huge” increase in the number of visits to doctors by children with asthma problems…
The federal government this week confirmed it would spend up to $600m on a new gas-fired power plant in NSW’s Hunter region, despite the International Energy Agency saying there should be no new…
G7 countries reaffirm commitment to limit global heating to 1.5C after nearly two days of wrangling.
The world’s richest nations have agreed to end their financial support for coal development…
What kind of thinking goes into engaging in planetary sabotage?
Two weeks ago, I looked at the question of the anxiety that the climate crisis is causing our psyches. But, if you think about it,…
A decade has passed since the inception of South Africa’s renowned renewable energy auction programme – the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP).
In reality,…
The net-zero road map published this week by the International Energy Agency shows a way forward to a new, cleaner world in line with the Paris Agreement, but the task ahead is massive and companies…
Roadmap comes just months before UK hosts major global climate summit.
There is no place for new fossil fuel projects if the world is to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, according to a landmark…
Aligning the EU’s climate targets with the Paris Agreement and the ambition to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050, requires revising existing – and designing new – ambitious policy and legal…
Economic-climate models are a powerful tool for providing insight into sensible climate policy choices and how they would impact our economy. As the EU announces stricter climate targets, there are…
Storms, floods, wildfires and droughts drove more than 30 million people from their homes last year, as rising temperatures wrought extra chaos on the climate, according to a report published…
World’s first comprehensive energy roadmap shows government actions to rapidly boost clean energy and reduce fossil fuel use can create millions of jobs, lift economic growth and keep net zero in…
Canada-based seaplane airline Harbour Air aims to offer zero-emission, all-electric commercial flights by 2022. “There is a big revolution on the way,” CEO and founder Greg McDougall tells Energy…
Congressman Peter Meijer, 33, warns that false claims of a burger ban or blaming immigrants risk losing the young generation.
Lies that hamburgers will be banned, conspiracy-laden claims of…
Just 21% in favour of resolution by activist investors proposing tougher emissions targets.
BP shareholders have voted down proposals for tougher emissions targets, which aims to limit global…