#fossil fuels

By Greg Muttitt, UCL; Fergus Green, UCL, and Steve Pye, UCL North Sea oil and gas has become a battleground issue in the UK general election. The Labour party’s ...

The ratio of fossil fuels in gross available energy increased slightly both in the EU and in Cyprus in 2022, a trend which signified a small increase in Europe’s reliance ...

We needed real commitments, but got greenwashing instead By Antrea Panagiotou The COP28 climate summit concluded with the main promise being to “transition away” from fossil fuels. Although the deal ...

In a landmark deal the COP28 climate summit in Dubai adopted unanimously the Global Stocktake text Wednesday morning. For the first time, it calls on all countries to move away ...

Representatives from nearly 200 countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit on Wednesday to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels to avert the worst of climate change, a first of ...

The COP28 Presidency released a proposed text of a final climate deal on Wednesday that would, for the first time, push nations to transition away from fossil fuels to avert ...

The COP28 climate talks went into overtime on Tuesday and countries engaged in shuttle-diplomacy to seek a new draft agreement and try to close a rift over ending the world’...

The attention on Day 6 of the UN COP28 climate summit in Dubai was Energy. It was the day when the key question about the future of fossil fuels came to ...

By Kate Abnett, Valerie Volcovici and David Stanway Governments launched new initiatives on Saturday to bolster clean energy and to wean themselves off fossil fuels at the UN climate summit ...

COP28 is finally upon us. The biggest show on earth started on Thursday, November 30, in Dubai, attended by 165 heads of state and more than 97,000 delegates from over 200 countries. For the ...

A hard-won deal on the European Union’s negotiating stance for this year’s U.N. climate talks has revealed regional rifts that anticipate global tensions at the COP28 summit. ...

By Gloria Dickie and Simon Jessop The number of fossil fuel companies setting net-zero emissions targets has risen sharply over the past year, but most fail to address key concerns, ...

A Filipino priest is touring top European banks to demand they curtail ties with companies behind new fossil fuel projects in a region of his home country that is rich ...

France’s European affairs minister rejected on Tuesday opposition by Germany to a law that would require new cars sold in the EU from 2035 to have zero CO2 emissions, with ...

Climate and human rights activists sued two of France’s biggest corporations over fossil fuel financing and alleged human rights abuses on Thursday, as campaigners increasingly turn to lawsuits to ...

By Megan Rowling As rocketing energy and food prices fuel inflation and social discontent in many countries, the world may have entered a period of “big turbulence” that could force ...

The European Commission has announced that it will be offering technical support to help 17 member states, including Cyprus, towards the goal of phasing out their reliance on Russian fossil fuels, ...

By Nick Carey and Barbara Lewis An electric car is a clean car, right? If only it were so simple. From motor magnets with toxic histories to batteries made using ...

The government plans to go ahead with taxation reform after 20 years, including raising the corporation rate and introducing carbon tax and fossil fuels taxes to achieve the country’s environmental ...

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japparov told the COP26 global climate summit this month that his Central Asian nation would achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 – but right now his government is urging citizens ...

By Alister Doyle An overarching goal for the COP26 UN summit of “keeping alive” a 1.5-degree Celsius limit on global warming is in jeopardy, with deep splits about what would ...