Eighty-two per cent of people are unaware of the financial risks that derive from investing in fossil fuels, despite saying that risk was a vital factor...
Norway’s largest oil company Statoil has announced it is considering pulling out of operations in west Greenland. This comes after experts claimed in a report last...
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has emphasised the important role private investors must play in transforming the global economy onto a low-carbon trajectory. Opening a World Economic...
Shell, Adidas, Statoil, Monsanto: are these companies among the most sustainable in the world? According to a recent ranking they are. Devised by Canada-based firm Corporate...
An American university has decided not to drop the shares it owns in fossil fuels companies, despite 80% of its students saying they would support divestment....
Leo Johnson answers 20 questions on life, sustainability and everything. Johnson is a sustainability expert and a partner at global consulting firm PwC, following the acquisition...
A group of 29 environmental campaigners, who were convicted for their roles in a protest against the fossil fuel industry, have had their convictions quashed. The...
Environmental campaigners have said that French fossil fuel giant Total should not be allowed to take part in the UK’s fledgling fracking industry until the reasons...
More than 500 investors have been told by the UN’s climate chief to invest in low-carbon technologies in order to avoid losing money over the long-term...
“We’re going all out for shale gas”, the shiny man says. All out for a technology whose availability is unproven and undefined, its impacts unclear and...
Lincolnshire is set to receive £30m investment from French-based oil and gas firm Total SA to investigate the county’s shale gas potential. Hydraulic fracking, or fracking, is...
French fossil fuel giant Total is to become the first major oil company to invest in the UK’s shale gas industry, it announced on Monday. The...
All this week on BBC Radio 4, the economist Jim O’Neill, who coined the term BRICS to refer collectively to Brazil, Russia, India, China and South...
Industrial black carbon has caused the melting of European glaciers and led to the end of the so-called Little Ice Age around 150 years ago, a...
A new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has found that the energy mix of member countries has “barely changed” since the...