Fossil Fuels

Anthony Hobley of Carbon Tracker on how financial markets can correctly price the 'true' costs of investing in fossil fuels

'Shocking' revelation finds $5.3tr subsidy estimate for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments

Move to ditch coal companies from £16m endowment marks school as first health organisation in the world to join divestment movement

Campaigners angered after Country Specific Recommendations drop call for reform, but Commission says it is merely seeking to avoid duplication

Vice chancellor says 'abrupt shift' from fossil fuels could hit world's poorest

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