Major coal users including Poland, Vietnam and Chile are committing to shift away from the fossil fuel, in pledges made at the COP26 climate summit, the UK government says.
Coal is the single…
Activists escalated protests against “greenwash” and the carbon market “scam” as UN envoy Mark Carney touted a private finance climate pledge.
There is an ideological battle going at Cop26 and it’s…
World leaders at the COP26 summit in Glasgow are under pressure to respond to global warming, and intense heatwaves and frequent forest fires are becoming an increasing threat around the…
The Victoria Big Battery, which had its commissioning suspended in late July when a fire broke out in one of its Tesla Megapack containers in initial testing, will be the country’s biggest battery at…
Connecting America’s regional electric grids to create a “supergrid” that stretches across the country would slash the cost of achieving high levels of renewable power, according to a resurfaced…
Exclusive: campaigners say lack of penalties for dirty assets from Bank of England gives industry little incentive to change.
The Bank of England is facing criticism over the way it is conducting…
Report into lobbying tactics names ExxonMobil and Chevron as worst, while carmaker Toyota takes third
ExxonMobil and Chevron are the world’s most obstructive organisations when it comes to…
President Jokowi’s administration seems poised to break through the regulatory bottlenecks that have long held back the country’s renewable energy ambitions.
The year 2021 might end up being seen as…
Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN)The US, UK, France, Germany and European Union will help fund South Africa's transition away from coal, in a multilateral effort that could serve as a model for other…
Event co-staged by The Independent hears that protecting the continent’s carbon-rich landscapes is vital
The battle against climate change can only be won if Africa’s carbon-rich landscapes are…
Pledge by over 450 financial institutions in 45 countries billed as one of the successes of Cop26 summit
Hundreds of the world’s biggest banks and pension funds with assets worth $130tn have…
Will COP26 be a climate "turning point" as Boris Johnson wants, or more "blah blah blah" of the kind Greta Thunberg condemns?
At face value, things do not look promising, for a simple reason: the…
Whatever the outcome of the UN’s latest high-stakes crapshoot, a lengthy and arcane process must be followed first
It’s not the expectation that is unbearable with Cop26; it is the hope. The world,…
The Rainbow Warrior has brought us to Cop26 to speak up for the sidelined citizens of the global south. We can’t be ignored
The writers are members of the climate action group Fridays for Future…
Australia’s policy at Cop26 is weak and unacceptable. It doesn’t give me any sense of hope
Iam 15 years old, and like so many young people across the world, I came to climate activism through…
Let's start with the bad news. Governments are far, far from achieving their goal to limit global temperature rise to 1.5C.
We've already got dangerous warming in the form of floods, record…
Summary of the main developments on the third day of the UN climate summit in Glasgow
Country pledges at Cop26 would limit global temperature rises to below 2C, the first time the world has been on…
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