Fossil Fuels

Are fossil fuel giants wasting trillions of dollars on business-as-usual strategies?

Risk

Are fossil fuel giants wasting trillions of dollars on business-as-usual strategies?

Carbon Tracker deep-dive into the risks facing oil and gas investments is corroborated by study in Nature that warns overwhelming majority of fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground to cap global temperatures in line with global goals

clock 09 September 2021 • 7 min read
'Time to step up': Top business leaders demand more 'aggressive' action to create 'fossil-free zones'

Policy

'Time to step up': Top business leaders demand more 'aggressive' action to create 'fossil-free zones'

Paul Polman, Agder Energi CEO Steffen Syvertsen, and Skift Business Climate Leaders CEO Bjørn K Haugland warn billions of lives stand to be affected by the escalating climate crisis

clock 27 August 2021 • 3 min read
Energy tariff reform: Government vows to tackle 'greenwashing' tariffs

Energy

Energy tariff reform: Government vows to tackle 'greenwashing' tariffs

Greater transparency would help consumers make 'climate conscious' choices, Minister argue

clock 15 August 2021 • 3 min read
Green North Sea: Tory MPs launch proposals to accelerate clean energy transition, as Cambo row intensifies

Policy

Green North Sea: Tory MPs launch proposals to accelerate clean energy transition, as Cambo row intensifies

Conservative Environment Network publishes new collection of essays exploring how the UK can manage the shift away from North Sea oil and gas

clock 06 August 2021 • 5 min read

Energy

Fossil fuel power generation has peaked worldwide, think tanks claim

Emerging economies on course to 'leapfrog' fossil fuel power infrastructure and move straight to renewables-dominated grids, according to new analysis from Carbon Tracker and India's CEEW

clock 14 July 2021 • 4 min read

Energy

Report: Fossil fuels' share of final energy mix same now as 10 years ago

Policymakers must step up efforts to deliver major 'structural shift' away from fossil fuels across all societal and economic activities, report warns

clock 16 June 2021 • 4 min read

Energy

'Get its own house in order': UK urged to end new fossil fuel licensing in North Sea to meet net zero

Letter from 50 campaign groups urges government to heed recent advice of International Energy Agency that growing fossil fuel supply is incompatible with a 1.5C world

clock 01 June 2021 • 5 min read

Risk

Confidence is evaporating: How fossil fuel share offerings plummet $123bn since 2012

Finds raised through stock market flotations for companies involved in fossil fuels have dwindles, while clean energy IPOs begin to surge, analysis suggests

clock 31 March 2021 • 4 min read

Investment

Study: Development banks are backing clean energy, but are struggling to kick fossil fuel habit

Analysis of investments made by nine of the world's biggest development banks has found that they spent four times more on clean energy than fossil fuels in 2020

clock 30 March 2021 • 3 min read

Energy

How wind and solar drove a record fall in coal power in 2020 - and why it's nowhere near enough

Analysis from energy think tank Ember celebrates a record fall in coal-fired power generation through 2020, but warns the global energy system remains far from alignment with the goals of the Paris Agreement

clock 29 March 2021 • 5 min read