Fossil fuels
Oil majors vow energy transition - at their own pace
Last week alone, a Dutch court ordered Shell to slash its greenhouse gas emissions, and investors used shareholder meetings to install activist board members at...
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UK newspaper 'Guardian' bans fossil fuel adverts
The Scott Trust, which owns the media group, has also "almost entirely" divested from fossil fuel companies.
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Global resource consumption tops 100 billion tonnes for first time
The share of minerals, fossil fuels, metals and biomass feeding into the global economy that is reused declined in two years from an already paltry 9.1% to 8.6% today, the Circularity Gap Report 2020 found.
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Air pollution deaths are double earlier estimates - study
Between 40 and 80% of those excess deaths are caused by heart attacks, strokes and other types of cardiovascular disease underestimated up to now as a driver of smog-related mortality, researchers reported.
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SA shouldn’t be exploring new fossil fuels - Greenpeace Africa warns
Greenpeace Africa says one of the key issues surrounding the discovery of gas in the country is how it will affect climate change.
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Mention of ‘fossil fuels’ cut from videos at UN climate talks
In October, a landmark report by a UN body of experts, the IPCC, highlighted for the first time the need to drastically cut fossil fuel use.
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New Zealand push on clean power comes with high political, economic risks
The 3,000-member Ngaati Kea Ngaati Tuara iwi in Rotorua, when switching to renewables, found local geothermal sources were not hot enough to generate electricity.
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'EU should raise fossil fuel taxes to plug Brexit budget gap'
European leaders will discuss options for the bloc’s next long-term budget from 2021 to 2027 at a summit on Friday.
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These renewable superpowers control the future of energy
The countries which dominate the production of fossil fuels will mostly be familiar.
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DiCaprio joins growing movement to divest from fossil fuels
Leonardo DiCaprio joined more than 400 institutions who have promised to divest from fossil fuels.
