Confidential documents prepared in advance of a two-day EU summit in Brussels have exposed an East-West divide in Europe on climate change, with Germany siding with Poland, Hungary and the Czech…
The world’s five largest listed oil and gas companies have spent more than $1 billion touting their climate credentials since the Paris Agreement was signed, whilst lobbying to protect and expand…
Batteries are critical for our clean energy future. Luckily, their cost has dropped so low, we might be much closer to this future than we previously thought.
No new coal or nuclear power plants should feature in the country’s electricity future, says UCT study.
The transition to renewable energy could result in cheaper, cleaner and more reliable…
Traffic pollution is putting our children at risk. We meet campaigners – many of them concerned mothers – fighting back.
In the winter you can taste and smell the pollution,” says Kylie ap Garth,…
When we think about schools, we first come up with subjects such as math, science, reading, and writing. However, these subjects, while important to success, are not all that schools teach. Schools…
Saudi-based Almarai owns 15,000 acres of an irrigated valley – but what business does a foreign food production company have drawing resources from a US desert?
Four hours east of Los Angeles, in a…
Businesses should be liable for the harm they do. Polly Higgins has launched a push to make ecocide an international crime.
Why do we wait until someone has passed away before we honour them? I…
Rapid and low-cost development of renewables can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but a lack of affordable energy storage is one factor preventing wind, solar and other clean energy sources from…
Reducing global air pollution can prevent millions of premature deaths according to an international team of scientists, led by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. The most significant…
Can renewables cost less than fossil fuel generation? And are they as reliable? It appears so, especially when they are coupled with a suite of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as virtual…
Billionaires are spending more on renewable energy, storage, and battery technology. A group of them even set up a US$1-billion fund, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, to encourage research in these…
Europe’s electricity and gas operators are currently working on a joint network plan based on a carbon budget which includes zero-emission scenarios for 2050. “And that automatically means there will…
Shell is rebranding First Utility, the household energy supplier, under its own name - and making a commitment to renewables.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the greenest of them all?
Few would…
Nearly eight million Canadians are “extremely” worried about climate change, and nine million see it as their top or top two vote-determining issue in this year’s federal election, but that concern…
Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz has called on Europe and China to join forces against the United States at the WTO, saying America has become a “free-rider” on climate change under the Trump…
While Germany and Eastern European countries continue to oppose raising the EU’s 40% emission reduction target for 2030, a new analysis insists the bloc will actually manage at least 50% cuts under a…