Fossil Fuels

Anti-coal campaigners are in court today in a final attempt to block the extension of a coal mine at Aberpergwm in south Wales.

Switch to EVs will reduce UK’s import dependence for petrol, as UK renewable electricity powers more cars.

Call for lobbying ban following revelation that fossil fuel industry met MSPs 790 times in five years

Coalition calling for Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to meet global climate targets launches new campaign.

Staggering £16 billion from local government workers' pensions invested in climate driving fossil fuels.

I'm 23. My generation has to stop climate breakdown.

42 reasons why fuel tax cuts and price caps just add fuel to the fire.

Making fossil fuel firms pay to clean up carbon could help curb climate change.

How fossil fuels are destroying biodiversity and Indigenous people’s rights.

UK urged to quit treaty that ‘puts fossil fuel interests before climate action’.

Oil companies, dictators and greenwashers captured the process at COP27 more effectively than ever.

'This year we see yet another rise in global fossil CO2 emissions, when we need a rapid decline.'

At 1.5C of warming more extreme weather, crop damage and losses of key systems such as coral reefs are expected.

Fossil fuels have barely been mentioned in previous climate talks. COP26 has seen a shift, and new movements are forming.

Bringing fossil fuels into COP, to keep them in the ground.

New draft of Cop26 deal weakens language on fossil fuel phaseout.

A total of 503 delegates at Cop26 directly affiliated with fossil fuel companies or with governments but linked to oil, gas or coal firms.

'We need to transform our commitment into action that will have an impact on the gases that drive climate change.'

We need to abandon Petropolis to prevent climate breakdown - and start building the ecomegacities of the future.

Zac Goldsmith says the ongoing petrol crisis is a 'good lesson' in the need to end the dependence on fossil fuels.

Freedom of Information requests reveal local authority pensions invest £9.9 billion in fossil fuel companies.

China’s national and provincial post-Covid recovery packages will put three times as much cash into fossil fuel projects as into renewable energy.

India is unable to shake off its ties to coal despite its commitment to renewable energy, giving rise to enormous social and environmental costs.

The announcement that UK will end public investments in overseas fossil fuels is welcome, but campaigners cannot take their foot off the gas.