Gary Horvitz, an activist working on 350.org’s divestment campaign in the US, looks at why Harvard University is so seemingly reluctant to ditch its investments in...
The government has been accused of harming the offshore wind sector’s ability to expand because of a “lack of clarity” in its policies. Amid fierce political...
Gerald Kutney picks out some of the highlights from his upcoming book, Carbon Politics and the Failure of the Kyoto Protocol, to be published by Routledge in...
Renewable energy organisations have criticised the Taxpayers’ Alliance after it claimed that government subsidies for the industry are set to soar to £5 billion by 2018....
A committee of MPs has told the government there is no justification to lower the UK’s long-term climate change targets, while warning that carbon reduction targets...
Londoners are becoming increasingly concerned about dangerously high levels of air pollution in the capital, according to campaign groups and politicians, after a survey found that...
Delaying a decision to approve carbon emission reduction targets for the 2020s could risk losing investment in UK businesses, the government’s official climate advisers have been...
Renewable energy investment platform Abundance Generation has launched its first fixed rate return project – the sixth since the firm launched over a year ago. The...
A new study by the University of Cambridge has identified new ways in which livestock could be managed and maintained in order to become more sustainable....
Former Irish president Mary Robinson has said that governments must face up to the reality that fossil fuels need to be ditched in favour of cleaner...
Norway has stepped up measures across the country to develop a full-scale carbon capture and storage project by 2020, according to ministers. The decision was announced...
Scientists have warned that the total amount of carbon burnt since the industrial revolution must not exceed one trillion tonnes. Experts have calculated that in the...
The Environmental Defence Fund (EDF) has replied to claims made by Naomi Klein, the Canadian author who last week said that green groups are more damaging...
Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has called for governments to take climate change seriously and step up to their responsibilities...
The EU bank has announced plans to invest in renewable energy schemes across six countries, to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels and boost green technologies....