Countries most responsible for climate crisis must ‘end war with nature’, says António Guterres
The UN secretary-general, António Guterres, has said the world owes impoverished Pakistan “massive”…
New king will have to eschew grand statements on climate crisis but his role does not stop him talking to the PM in private
In 1970, the young Prince of Wales made a speech warning of the dangers…
Giant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change
The climate crisis has driven the world to the brink of multiple “disastrous” tipping…
Support amid huge industry profits is a ‘roadblock’ to tackling climate crisis, says International Energy Agency
Global public subsidies for fossil fuels almost doubled to $700bn in 2021, analysis…
BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalEnergies spend $750m a year burnishing climate credentials but only 12% of capital on low-carbon development
Big oil and gas companies are spending tens of…
99% of our world is exposed to polluted air causing an estimated 7 million premature deaths every year.
Air pollution is an environmental risk to human health. It has detrimental impacts on climate…
Olaf Scholz says country has enough energy to get through winter after Russia cut gas supplies
The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has rejected calls for his government to commit to a longer-term…
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…
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…
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…
Precise Consult is launching a programme to manufacture and distribute 250,000 solar home systems in Ethiopia. This initiative, supported by the authorities, will also allow the distribution of kits…