Nina Skorupska, a former RWE Npower director, has been unveiled as the Renewable Energy Association’s (REA) new chief executive, replacing Gaynor Hartnell. The organisation raised the...
With MPs set to vote on Tuesday over whether a decarbonisation target should be included in the energy bill, figures from Bloomberg have revealed that investment...
Greenhouse gas emissions in 2011 fell by 7% in the UK following mild winter temperatures, according to new data from the European Environment Agency (EEA). Overall,...
The world must scrap fossil fuel subsidies and attach a price to environmentally-harmful carbon dioxide emissions in order to combat climate change, according to World Bank...
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has cut its key interest rate to 2.75% from 3%, in a bid to combat sluggish growth in the extraction...
Emma Websdale spoke with prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben about why he believes divestment is the only solution when it comes to fossil fuels. Bill McKibben recently...
The majority of fossil fuels are “unburnable” if governments want to stay within their carbon emission limits, according to a comprehensive report by leading economists. Unburnable...
Conservation group the National Trust has unveiled a £3.5m deal, in conjunction with renewable electricity supplier Good Energy, which will see it make its first steps...
Prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben has described Australian coalmining as a “rogue industry”, despite many new developments gaining recent approval in the country. The country’s government previously...
The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2012, primarily thanks to the residential and energy sectors, statistics from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)...
Technology giant Apple has announced plans to run its iCloud data centres on 100% renewable energy. While the company’s sustainability commitments have historically not been as...
Shareholders are increasingly feeling disgruntled, and rightly, by the risks fossil fuel companies are taking with their money. Gyorgy Dallos of Greenpeace International writes how investors...
A provocative website encouraging EDF customers to switch from the big six suppliers has been launched in an effort to help fight campaign group No Dash...
A new report suggests that land grabbing – which involves buying out huge plots of land for the extraction of resources, usually in developing countries –...
French president François Hollande has called upon governments across the world to invest heavily in renewable energy in the coming years, in order to avoid the...