Paris (AFP) Jan 26, 2023 - Consumption patterns in wealthy European Union countries are having detrimental environmental impacts in poorer EU nations, a study Thursday found, exposing harmful inequalities on the continent.
Paris (AFP) Jan 26, 2023 - Hundreds of campaign groups on Thursday condemned the appointment of an oil boss to lead UN climate talks in the United Arab Emirates, saying it threatened the meeting's legitimacy.
Baghdad, Iraq (AFP) Jan 25, 2023 - Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani will travel to France on Thursday for energy and security talks with President Emmanuel Macron, he told AFP.
London (AFP) Jan 25, 2023 - The UK's Royal Opera House announced on Wednesday that it had ended its 33-year sponsorship deal with energy giant BP following pressure and protests from environmentalists.
Paris (AFP) Jan 24, 2023 - French bank BNP Paribas said Tuesday it plans to cut its financing of oil extraction and production by 80 percent by 2030.
Bangkok (AFP) Jan 24, 2023 - Thai fishermen and business owners have filed lawsuits worth $150 million against a subsidiary of US energy giant Chevron over a huge oil spill last year, lawyers said Tuesday.
Cocoa FL (SPX) Jan 24, 2023 - Most people realize the climate impacts of carbon dioxide. Not many people, however, know that methane, the main component of natural gas, is much more potent than carbon dioxide. While methan
Berlin (AFP) Jan 24, 2023 - German environmentalists on Tuesday sued the government for failing to follow its own laws to protect the climate and reduce emissions.
Kampala (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 - Uganda has issued a licence for the construction of a controversial $3.5 billion pipeline set to carry crude oil from the East African country to international markets, a government minister said Friday.
Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 - The head of the IMF warned Friday that Western subsidies to combat climate change and encourage the transition to clean energy sources risked hitting the economies of the developing world.
Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 19, 2023 - Holding COP28 climate talks in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates is an opportunity to ask hard questions on fossil fuels, the UN's climate chief told AFP on Thursday.
Herzliya, Israel (SPX) Jan 19, 2023 - A new study, led by Dr. Asaf Tzachor at Reichman University's School of Sustainability, in partnership with environmental and nutritional scientists from Iceland, Denmark and the UK, shows that by a
Paris (AFP) Jan 19, 2023 - Electric car batteries could be used to boost power storage in the future, injecting electricity into the grid during times of scarcity or storing electricity during periods of excess, a new study found Tuesday.
Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 19, 2023 - Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg slammed business and political leaders attending the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, saying it was absurd to listen to them while they fuelled the destruction of the planet.
Paris (AFP) Jan 19, 2023 - The head of France's TotalEnergies has dismissed a speech by UN chief Antonio Guterres's attack some oil giants' complicity in hushing up the science supporting climate change as a false debate.
Zharrez, Albania (AFP) Jan 19, 2023 - The people of Zharrez in central Albania live amid a stinking apocalyptic landscape of leaking oil wells and rusting storage tanks, the soil blackened from spills of crude that seep into their water.
