Fossil Fuels

Environmentalists accuse the government of ‘looking the other way’ after US gives green light for Shell to restart drilling for oil and gas

Bob Ward of the Grantham Institute says attempts to promote fossil fuels as a solution to poverty are wide of the mark

David Blood and Howard Covington separately warn fund managers they are sleepwalking into a future where climate change leaves fossil fuels unburnable

World's leading economies set up inquiry into financial impact of stricter climate rules

Jim Yong Kim calls for five-point plan to deliver low-carbon growth, including removal of incentives to exploit oil, gas and coal

Bank advises governments in East Asia to use fall in oil price to tackle artificially low fossil fuel prices

MSCI research analysis lends weight to divestment campaign

Rules agreed a meeting of fund’s board described by Friends of the Earth as ‘like a torture convention that does not forbid torture

Investors must be wary of carbon intensity and local environmental impacts of inefficient subcritical coal plants, study says

Controversial decision expected from US interior secretary likely to spark protests from campaigners against Anglo-Dutch exploration in seas off Alaska