September might have hit the headlines for its unseasonal warm weather toward the end of the month, but it also proved a boon for renewables output...
The EU’s negotiating position for the global climate talks in Paris in December, adopted by its Environment Ministers today, calls for climate neutrality – a full...
India’s energy minister Piyush Goyal has said his country will become a renewables superpower, with solar power in particular set for a big boost. However, he...
Chile has become the first South American country to introduce a tax on carbon, in a pioneering effort to tackle climate change. On Friday the Chilean...
So far this year, the world has poured record amounts of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, with a strong rise of 2.5% over 2013 levels, totalling...
If the UK government sticks to its carbon budgets, which set targets for national emission reductions through the coming decades, every household could be £565 better...
NASA is developing a new probe that will create a unique 3D map of all the world’s forests, in an attempt to improve understanding of their...
Concentrations of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere reached record levels in 2013, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned in a finding that underlines the...
Retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced plans to buy 35,000 mega-2att (MW) hours of biomethane certificates, as part of its efforts to reduce its environmental...
Efforts launched to curb greenhouse gas emissions could pay for themselves, according to a new study investigating the potential healthcare savings of reductions in pollution. It...
London mayor Boris Johnson has announced new funding to help improve the conditions of thousands of council properties across London. The funding, from the Decent Homes...
As more and more people continue to fly and airlines do all they can to get ticket prices down, this is continuing to have a negative...
Director of sustainability at General Motors (GM), David Tulauskas, has said corporations must do more to support renewable energy, while utilities must help make clean energy...
The UK government has announced it will close a legal loophole that could have given billions of pounds to old coal power plants. However, the news...
Replacing oil and coal in the energy mix with shale and natural gas will not help efforts to curb climate change, according to a new study....