Energy

A pre-requisite for making the transition to a clean energy future is to switch subsidies from fossil fuels to renewable energy projects. If that’s the case, why are we still bank-rolling dirty energy projects in developing countries?

Governments and companies making no effort to quantify the real climate impacts

Campaigners have criticised the Environment Agency for not requiring a new wood-chip power plant in South Wales to reuse its waste heat

Dubbed 'insanity island', protesters are campaigning against the Atlantic Sea Island Group's proposal to build a mega liquefied natural gas facility off the coast of New York and New Jersey

A higher tariff for green electricity generation would help the UK catch up with the rest of Europe

Okay so not much happens most of the time... but for anyone interested in building a hydro-electric turbine these live images of a micro-hydropower project construction in Cumbria make compelling viewing

Growth in India's carbon emissions could be nearly halved by the year 2030 through the use of known practices and technologies, according to a new report from McKinsey & Company

Proposals from the Government and Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) would cause 'untold damage' and take decades to set-up, say Liberal Democrats

Government and business face a big challenge in changing the public’s use of energy at home and reducing the UK’s overall carbon emissions, according to report

Greenpeace activists block Shell's tar sands oil extraction operation in protest at its environmental cost

Urine could be used to generate electricity and as a free alternative to mineral fertilisers

The West has an image of China as a coal-burning monstrosity standing in the way of a clean future. But the truth is very different

Advertorial claimed that controversial oil business was 'green answer' and was important to alleviating poverty

Although unpopular and expensive, personal carbon trading may be the next step in tackling climate change

Renewable energy created on-site can now be used instead of being exported to the national grid