COP28 host announces fossil fuel industry emissions pledge, while scaling up carbon capture technology
As the United Arab Emirates (UAE) COP28 host has tried to burnish its green image, its state fossil fuel company ...
Tag: fossil fuels
Net zero split is under the magnifying glass at the Conservative party conference
At the Conservative party’s annual conference, talk on the green energy transition has been all the rage. The agenda is ...
Crowds marched through London against the development of new North Sea oil
Fossil Free London staged a march of hundreds of people through the capital on 30 September. It was protesting the ...
Government greenlights climate-wrecking Rosebank oil and gas field
On Wednesday 27 September, the UK government issued a license to the controversial and potentially disastrous Rosebank oil and gas ...
The reconstruction of a Brazilian highway is the Amazon’s route to deforestation
The reconstruction of Amazon’s BR-319 highway in Brazil, connecting the capital Manaus in central Amazonia to the southern edge of ...
Thousands call on European development bank to divest from fossil fuels
Thousands have called on a major European development bank to end its Euro billions in financing for fossil fuels. Between ...
TotalEnergies gears up for greenwashing at its investor day
French fossil fuel major TotalEnergies will host its next 'Investor Day' on Wednesday 27 September. As it says on the ...
A London monument was the scene of a protest against a fossil fuel conference
Activists scaled a London monument during the Changing of the Guard procession as part of a protest targeting an upcoming ...
Sunak’s environmental U-turn is helping him achieve net zero approval
Anyone paying attention to the climate in 2023 has likely come to the same conclusion as myself - namely that ...
Sunak’s bonfire of climate policies is a boon for landlords and big oil, but a disaster everyone else
On 20 September, Rishi Sunak announced that the government was torching a series of its climate policies. The millionaire prime ...
The World Bank won’t stop financing fossil fuel projects, despite climate commitments
The World Bank Group (WBG) is showing no signs of letting up its financing of fossil fuel projects. Now, residents ...
An anthropologist predicted the current failings of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals – spoiler, it’s all capitalism
In part one of this two-part article, we took a look at the UN's latest Sustainable Development Goals report, and ...
Small island states call out rich nations’ climate responsibility in historic ocean tribunal hearing
Leaders of nine small island states turned to the UN maritime court on Monday 11 September. They're seeking an end ...
Major insurance companies shun new oil and gas in the biodiverse Congo Basin – it could be a death knell for big oil in the DRC
New research has thrown cold water over a French fossil fuel corporation's plan to expand its destructive oil and gas ...
COP28 president announces green investment in Africa – but plans to plough billions more into fossil fuels
COP28's climate host, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has announced plans to invest billions to help Africa move away from ...
G20 coal emissions continue to rise despite climate pledges
New research has shown that G20 per capita coal emissions are continuing to rise. These coal-based emissions are increasing despite ...
Wildfire risk heightened by climate crisis – but let’s not forget colonialism’s role in these deadly disasters
As devastating wildfires rage around the globe, a new study has shown that the climate crisis has sharply boosted the ...
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