Top news of the week: 06.04.2023.
Revealed: UAE plans huge oil and gas expansion as it hosts UN climate summit
Exclusive: UAE’s fossil fuel boss will be the president of Cop28, making a mockery of the summit, say campaigners
Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change
Narrated in the upper-crust accent favoured by British documentary-makers of the era, Shell’s 1981 film Time for Energy assesses the scope for solar, wind, nuclear, and other sources of ...
£3.5m of Tory donations linked to pollution and climate denial, says report
Millions given to party and MPs last year came from entities linked to fossil fuels, high-polluting industries and climate denial
How the climate movement learned to win in Washington
After a staggering defeat, environmentalists needed a plan they could sell. Thus began a decade-long climb propelled by mass protests, heavy campaign spending and intense lobbying. Then ...
Solar is now viable even in rainy climes – so why aren’t we making hay?
Government’s reluctance to require panels to be fitted on new homes in England from 2025 remains a puzzle
Industrial heavyweights call for urgent action on cutting Australia’s emissions
In joint statement companies say they are ‘ready to seize opportunity’ of decarbonisation and call on others to join them
New oilfield in the North Sea would blow the UK’s carbon budget
Campaigners say Rosebank, with a potential yield of 500m barrels, would seriously undermine legal commitment to net zero
Global warming: renewable energy needs to be twice as cheap as fossil fuels, Nobel laureate Steven Chu tells HKU forum
Renewable energy costs need to be at least twice as cheap as those of fossil fuels to ensure a clean transition globally, Steven Chu, a Nobel laureate in physics and former US secretary of ...