The Scottish National Party (SNP) has spoken out about some of the challenges Scotland will face if it becomes independent from the UK, including cutting its...
A controversial oil pipeline development linking Canada’s tar sands to refineries in Texas may bring minimal economic benefits while generating a rush of high-risk oil investments,...
Just 90 companies are responsible for two-thirds of manmade greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. This includes investor-owned companies such as BP, Royal Dutch...
A Spanish court has ruled the country’s government has no criminal responsibility for one of the worst environmental disasters ever to occur in Europe, when the...
The devastation in the Philippines reminds us of our responsibility to stop profiting from the wreckage caused by companies whose business plan includes destroying the planet,...
Carbon emissions are expected to continue increasing until 2035, potentially resulting in a dangerous temperature rise, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) latest World Energy...
Major oil companies have reported misleading and untrue claims over spills that occurred in the Niger delta region, in order to avoid giving compensation to local...
Authorities in Russia are to bring more charges against many of the Greenpeace activists currently being detained in the country. The 28 protesters and two journalists...
Higher education institutions that don’t divest from fossil fuel companies because it’s the right thing to do should divest from “stranded assets” because it makes financial...
Over a dozen companies have been closed by the Insolvency Service in the last 15 months, after raking in nearly £24m from 1,500 individuals for carbon...
The world is in danger of making the same mistakes with sub-prime carbon assets as it did with the sub-prime mortgages that led to the financial...
Talks to create two protected marine reserves in the Antarctic have failed, as Russia, Ukraine and China refused to commit to the plans. Delegates from 24 countries...
Broadcast from the beautiful Cornish town of St Austell, two leading renewable energy suppliers got a mention on Question Time, the BBC’s flagship political debate programme, on...
The global oil refining industry has been hit by squeezed margins, with three of the biggest oil companies reporting falling third-quarter profits on Thursday. Royal Dutch...
Oil giant BP has revealed a $1m increase in profits for the third quarter of 2013, compared to the second, but a loss compared to the...