Fossil Fuels

Royal Dutch Shell CO2 executive reveals company currently prices carbon at $40 per tonne

Proposed regulations could cut carbon pollution by up to 25 per cent but President still faces potential opposition from Republicans

Government-backed figures reveal emissions rose in 2013 for the first time since 2007

Campaigners says package designed to reduce dependence on foreign oil and gas gives insufficient weight to indigenous clean energy sources

Oil major joins rivals BP and ExxonMobil in downplaying potential threat of stranded assets in carbon constrained future

Report warns of increasing dependence on imports if UK and other European countries do not accelerate clean energy deployment

Council votes to ditch NZ$2m investments in fossil fuels, as it also divests from munitions, tobacco, gambling and pornography

Board of Trustees says existence of less harmful alternatives means it will no longer invest $18.7bn endowment in coal mining

Activists aim to prevent first shipment of offshore oil extracted from the fragile region being delivered to French energy giant

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