An alliance of 70 major investors with a collective $3 trillion (£1.85 trillion) of assets has called on the world’s largest fossil fuels firms to explain...
No members of the cabinet question the need to act on dangerous climate change, according to energy minister Greg Barker, who also stressed that the UK...
Carbon dioxide emissions related to energy consumption in the US fell to the lowest point for nearly two decades in 2012, according to a new report....
Two separate studies have found that the controversial process of fracking may cause less direct environmental damage than its critics have suggested, but might not have...
London’s biggest airports need to be expanded further, according to the new aviation minister. Speaking on Monday at the Airport Operators Association (AOA) conference in London,...
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...
Up to five billion people could experience extreme climates by 2050 if we do not cut emissions, according to a new study. The research found that...
A leading climate scientist has warned that attempts to use global financial markets in the fight against climate change are “doomed to failure”. After the release...
Talks must begin now on the world’s ‘carbon budget’, leading economist and expert on climate change Lord Stern has warned. On Friday, the Intergovernmental Panel on...
The chancellor George Osborne has said that he does not want the UK to be at the forefront of efforts to prevent climate change, as the...
The UK has been named as one the top five countries with the most sustainable national energy systems in the world. In the annual index compiled...
Reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases could save up to 3 million lives a year by 2100, a new study has suggested. The study, published in...
By 2040, all petrol and diesel cars may be banned from UK roads – according to a recent Lib Dem proposal. This controversial idea, which was...
Investment house Alliance Trust invests in non-fossil fuels, but makes an exception for natural gas, which it describes as a “beneficial transition fuel”. It adds that...
80 percent of Chinese cities are failing to balance economic growth, resource efficiency and sustainable development, a new study has claimed. The research, undertaken by consulting...