Energy
OPEC chief defends members over missing climate pledges
NEWS: Petropowers like Saudi Arabia and Nigeria should only submit carbon-cutting plans if they are “win-win”, says Abdalla Salem El-Badri
Shell chief: Business must account for cost of climate change
NEWS: Ben van Beurden says industry, regulators should rally behind Shell and European oil majors’ joint call to make polluters pay
Conservative UK climate chief defends green cuts
NEWS: Energy secretary Amber Rudd says rollback of clean energy subsidies not borne of ideology but faster way to cut emissions
Germany offers India €2 billion in solar, clean energy funds
NEWS: Leaders Modi and Merkel agree renewables finance package and to cooperate on plans for global climate deal in Paris
UK ecomodernism launch ‘hijacked by climate lukewarmers’
NEWS: Far right ex-environment minister Owen Paterson appropriated new movement for war against the “green blob”, to the dismay of founders
Shell stops Arctic drilling ‘for the foreseeable future’
NEWS: After spending US$7 billion on exploration in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea, company finds insufficient oil to continue controversial venture
Podcast: What has happened to the UK’s energy policy?
Ed King, Business Green’s James Murray and Nick Molho from the Aldersgate Group discuss the state of low carbon planning in the UK
UK outlook for carbon-capture darkens as Drax quits
NEWS: Fledgling technology key to 2050 climate targets dealt blow as govt commitment to low carbon agenda questioned
VW scam shows business climate spin deserves closer scrutiny
NEWS: New carbon cutting targets from multinationals are welcome, but VW scandal demonstrates need for scepticism
What’s with Shell’s new Energy Transitions Commission?
NEWS: Oil major to launch new low carbon programme with BHP Billiton, Statoil and some solar firms in bid to green image
Fossil fuel divestment accelerates as pledges pass $2 trillion
NEWS: Scale of ditched assets enters trillions of dollars, smashing expectations as private firms lead charge, study says
Major economies ‘schizophrenic’ on climate change blasts OECD chief
NEWS: Huge levels of subsidies still flowing to oil, gas and coal sector suggest governments not taking climate threat to heart
Burnt data: China coal use since 2000 far higher than estimated
NEWS: Top carbon emitter’s coal usage since 2000 has rocketed as data revisions lay bare faulty accounting, analysts suggest
Solar power ‘backbone’ of future energy system – Shell CEO
NEWS: But with energy demand set to double, don’t expect that to scotch fossil fuels for decades, says Ben van Beurden
China economic downturn could hit 2030 clean energy target
NEWS: Investors call on government to support renewables sector, which faces cash crisis as stock market woes intensify
We have lift-off: Experts call for green growth boost at Paris
NEWS: Apollo project will clamour at UN summit for US$15 billion in renewable investment a year this decade to halt climate change
UK out, Chile in to renewable investment top 10
NEWS: British cuts to clean energy support have baffled financiers, says consultancy EY, while Santiago has a winning strategy
Shell exits Prince of Wales climate group amid row rumours
NEWS: Controversial plans to drill in Arctic said to be last straw for fellow members of influential European climate grouping
Ecuador reheats oil export tax in climate pitch
NEWS: Carbon levy more valuable in UN deal than “simple promises” of underfunded climate pledges, says Quito envoy
‘Renegade’ UK physicists say they’re on fast track to nuclear fusion
ANALYSIS: Venture capitalists take on establishment with experimental device, but are optimistic time frames damaging the race?