Search results for ‘fossil fuels’
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UK to build new gas fired power plants in reverse on climate targets
The government has backed the development of new gas fired power plants which critics have claimed would make the country more dependent on fossil fuels.
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COP28: World leaders gather for climate summit
World leaders can’t save the planet with a fire hose of fossil fuels – that was the warning from the UN chief Antonio Gutteres to the COP28 summit in Dubai, after scientists said that 2023 was set to be the warmest year in history.
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World’s longest ‘interconnector’ to supply green electricity to 1.4 million UK homes
Across southern Europe the heatwave continues with the mercury predicted to hit 45 degrees celsius in Greece this weekend. So stopping the burning of fossil fuels which are overheating the planet is ever more urgent.
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New research reveals the extent of ExxonMobil’s secret knowledge of climate change nearly 50 years ago
The findings are the latest in a series of revelations about the company’s historic awareness of the links between climate change and fossil fuels.
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2022 ‘wasted year’ of climate action, says UN report
As the price of fossil fuels soars – so do their emissions.
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US Senate passes landmark climate bill
The US Congress is on the verge of approving an historic package of measures to tackle climate change, after senators agreed a $370 billion bill to slash America’s greenhouse emissions and move the country away from fossil fuels to greener, renewable energy.
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COP26: 190 countries and organisations pledge to phase out coal
The focus at COP26 today has been on fossil fuels and there has been a world first – 25 countries including the United States have promised to stop using taxpayers money to invest in foreign coal, oil, or gas projects by the end of next year and focus on clean energy instead.
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Saudi Arabia pledges to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060
Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s biggest oil exporters, has pledged to try and reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060 although it will still continue to produce fossil fuels.
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UK under pressure to reject new oil field as it prepares to host COP26 climate conference
The UK is preparing to host the UN climate conference, COP26, later this year. But the UK government faces questions of its own about the use of fossil fuels.
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Fears Biomass green revolution could be fuelling habitat loss
For supporters of Biomass, it is a vital tool in helping the UK switch away from fossil fuels. Biomass involves burning energy crops or waste timber in power stations that used to burn coal.
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Greece and Turkey accuse each other of breaking the international law of the sea
Fossil fuels might be going out of fashion, but a dispute over the right to drill for natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean has provoked fears that two NATO allies could come to blows.
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Ed Miliband ‘confident’ Labour will achieve clean power target by 2030
We spoke to Energy Secretary Ed Miliband about the plans for Great British Energy.
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UK oil and gas exploration in doubt after supreme court ruling
The future of new oil and gas projects in the UK has been thrown into doubt following a landmark decision by the Supreme Court.
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‘We want to turn Britain into the world’s first clean energy superpower’, says shadow environment secretary
Labour’s Steve Reed, who’s the shadow environment secretary, joins us in Westminster.
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Greens launch manifesto promising to ‘mend broken Britain’
Today it was the Green Party’s turn to launch its manifesto, with co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay pledging to “mend broken Britain”.