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JBIC wants to continue burdening developing nations with its expensive coal-fired power technology Japan is continuing to push its expensive coal-fired power technology on developing nations if such…

From 1 October 2024, Great Britain will no longer use coal to generate electricity, a year earlier than planned. The move is part of ambitious government commitments to transition away from fossil…

China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam plan to build more than 600 coal power units Five Asian countries are jeopardising global climate ambitions by investing in 80% of the world’s planned new…

Anti-oil activists are turning their focus on fossil fuel funding, aiming to stop the flow of money for good. Even by the standards of the chief executive of America’s biggest bank, March 31 looked…

San Juan, New Mexico CCS plan part of push for more ‘carbon dioxide factories’ The federal government’s support for carbon capture projects at coal-fired power plants may be politically necessary (…

Recent announcements by Indonesia’s state-owned utility company Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 must be met with caution and scrutinized as the numbers don’t…

Poland plans to close Europe’s most polluting power plant by the end of 2036, a draft document published by local authorities said on Tuesday, after energy group PGE (PGE.WA) scrapped plans to…

DTE Energy has retired the last operating unit of its River Rouge coal-fired power plant along the Detroit River, a facility that came online in 1956 and entered commercial operation in 1958. The…

Australian and Japanese environment and research groups have issued a joint call to the Japanese government to end Australian imports of coal. The group of non-government organisations have produced…

Most of the coal plants that feed the biggest U.S. power grid will soon no longer be economic to run after prices in a key auction plunged to the lowest in 11 years. Of the 44 coal-fired power…

South Korea’s National Pension Service, the world’s third-largest retirement fund, “will adopt investment-restriction strategies” for coal-mining and power-generation industries, another sign of…

With two more days until the scheduled adjournment of the General Assembly’s spring legislative session, negotiations on a high-stakes deal to steer Illinois away from carbon-causing energy sources…

As nations gear up for a critical year for climate negotiations, it’s become increasingly clear that success may hinge on one question: How soon will China end its reliance on coal and its financing…

The Biden administration is facing backlash from climate activists and scientists after filing a court brief Wednesday in defense of a major Trump-era Alaska drilling project that's expected to…

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…

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…

Governments must close gap between net zero rhetoric and reality, says International Energy Agency head. Exploitation and development of new oil and gas fields must stop this year and no new coal-…

Republican governor says measure sends message that Wyoming is ‘prepared to bring litigation to protect her interests’ Wyoming is faced by a transition to renewable energy that’s gathering pace…

Just two weeks after young environmental activists won a lawsuit over insufficient climate protection in Germany, an amended version of the country’s climate law has been passed, which could result…

Mizuho Financial Group Inc (8411.T), Japan’s third largest bank by assets, said on Thursday it would stop financing new thermal coal mining projects from June 1, as global investors and environmental…