Former chief scientific adviser to the government Sir David King has said shale gas will not be a major player in the future compared to nuclear...
The Swedish Centre party has called for pension funds to ‘climate proof’ investment by ditching holdings in the fossil fuel industry. AP funds – Sweden’s national...
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...
The US president has said that Sweden is “far ahead of many other countries” when it comes to clean energy and added that it can teach...
The Department for Communities and Local Government is considering a reform of oil and gas drilling planning applications under which companies would not be required to...
Santa Clara Valley Water District has withdrawn investment in fossil fuels companies over concern about threats to water supplies caused by global warming. The US water...
The 2010 American documentary GasLand focuses on communities in the United States that have been impacted by natural gas drilling, specifically by the method known as fracking. After...
Clean energy can become cost-competitive by 2025 without the need for subsidies, if the best locations are exploited effectively, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory...
The energy regulator Ofgem has unveiled new standards of conduct to make the energy market simpler and fairer for customers. Its guidelines says that customers have...
Greenhouse gas emissions from China’s energy industry will peak in 2027, as renewable energy and gas take on a dominant role in the country’s energy mix,...
“What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?” ponders Amory Lovins, chief scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute, in this week’s featured...
Investment into North Sea oil and gas will reach record levels in 2013, with £13.5 billion pumped into an industry whose production has dropped off significantly...
The $750 billion Government Pension Fund of Norway (GPF) has responded to a review of its investment strategy, which described its ethical footprint as “severely limited”...
Ethical and sustainable investment funds have generally performed better financially than their mainstream counterparts in the last 12 months, according to new research. Moneyfacts says that...
There has been an awful lot of noise about the controversial method of extracting shale gas, hydraulic fracturing – also known as fracking. The nation seems...