The Sines coal plant in Portugal went offline at midnight yesterday evening (14 January), leaving the country with just one remaining coal power station in operation, which is scheduled for closure…
Statement by the Secretary-General – on US steps to re-enter the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
I warmly welcome President Biden’s steps to re-enter the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and…
BHP Group, the world’s biggest mining company, has invested in a startup company seeking to develop less-polluting ways of making steel.
While many in the mining industry have outlined how they plan…
Rescinding permit is on list of executive actions thought to be scheduled for first day in office.
Joe Biden is planning to cancel the permit for the $9bn Keystone XL pipeline project as one of his…
Joe Biden’s new climate envoy says: ‘All nations must raise ambition together – or we will all fail, together’.
The world is lagging behind the pace of change needed to avert catastrophic impacts…
TOTAL SE TOT announced that it has entered into a 50/50 joint venture with 174 Power Global, a unit of Hanwha Group, to develop 12 utility-scale solar and energy storage projects in the United States…
Electricity cable stretches 149 miles on seafloor between UK and France.
A new high-voltage subsea cable linking the UK to France has begun importing enough electricity to power 1m British homes.
Equinor ASA is considering selling its holdings in the Bakken play of North Dakota and Montana, part of a comprehensive review of its international oil and gas portfolio as the Norwegian state-…
Florida Power & Light’s last coal-fired plant in that state has officially closed.
The formal retirement of Indiantown Cogeneration Plant came as the clock struck midnight on Dec. 31. FPL…
Solving the climate crisis by boosting investments in new technologies will be at the center of the Biden administration's job creation agenda, the incoming top economic White House adviser said on…
Utility commission launches investigation of Comanche Unit 3 costs; seamless replacement of power adds to case for early closure
Xcel Energy’s troubled Unit 3 at the Comanche Generating Station in…
Exclusive: Kwasi Kwarteng accepted funding as part of 2019 election bid despite Tories’ green pledges
The UK’s new business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, accepted substantial donations from fossil fuel…
Kristalina Georgieva says investing to create resilient economies is a ‘win-win-win-win’ scenario.
Helping the most vulnerable people to cope with the climate crisis can boost the global economy…
Parts of Victoria and NSW are sweating through an extreme heatwave that started sweeping across Australia's southeast on Saturday.
This may seem like just a good excuse to go to the beach, but as…
Climate scientist and writer Joëlle Gergis speaks about the incalculable loss already suffered due to climate change and why the only way forward is to acknowledge the grief rather than ignore it.
Sobering new report says world is failing to grasp the extent of threats posed by biodiversity loss and the climate crisis.
The planet is facing a “ghastly future of mass extinction, declining…
Why is it so important to decarbonize cities? And how can we do it?
The first question is easy to answer: The cities in which more than half of us live account for nearly two-thirds of the CO2…
Focus must be on justice for those fleeing impact of extreme weather events, says new scientific adviser to Vatican.
The pope’s newly appointed scientific adviser said the coronavirus pandemic has…
We're all culprits in the plastic pollution crisis — and that's by design.
I was reminded of this recently when I ordered a set of carbon filters for my countertop compost bin. (Like most people, I…