Fossil Fuels

Renewables are fast catching up with fossil fuels on the amount of energy they yield compared to how much they require to build and operate, scientists say

Two more institutions vow to sell their shares in fossil fuel companies, just a day after National Trust pledged to divest

A new scientific study lays out what must happen immediately for any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5C

Latest Carbon Tracker report provides fresh evidence energy sector is exposed to billions of dollars of transition risk as the world pivots to a low carbon economy

With Greenpeace backing a judicial review into the Capacity Market suspension, hopes are fading fast that auctions could go ahead this year - and that implications for coal and clean tech alike

In a rebuke of the Trump administration's 'energy-first' agenda, a judge rules greenhouse gas emissions must be considered

Extraction also causes 80 per cent of biodiversity loss, according to comprehensive UN study

Subsidies for coal, oil and gas are not falling despite EU pledges to tackle climate change

Tom Chivers reflects on how a revolution in the energy industry means the profit motive might yet help avert catastrophic climate change

The professional body said its investments in fossil fuel companies were not compatible with its role to improve public health and wellbeing