OPEC member urges oil producers to focus on more renewable energy
Iraq’s finance minister, Ali Allawi has called for oil producers to move away from fossil fuel dependency and into renewable energy. ...
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Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme: £4 million funding to boost UK sources of green energy
The Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme aims to scale up future supply of UK sustainable biomass and accelerate the commercialisation of innovative ...
FTSE 100 bosses urged by UK government to set net zero targets
Ahead of November’s COP26, Andrew Griffith, the UK’s net zero business champion, has written to FTSE 100 CEOs to express the “real ...
Driving down carbon emissions with internal pricing
Corporates play a significant role in the race to cut global greenhouse gas emissions. Companies are increasingly using internal carbon prices to channel ...
EU urges markets to ‘keep calm’ as carbon price hits €60 record
“I think we need to keep calm with the €60 market”. This is Beatriz Yordi Aguirre, a director at the European ...
Gas crunch threatens industry in UK and Europe
Centrica, owner of British gas, has warned soaring prices could raise household bills and cause energy-intensive businesses in the UK and ...
UK’s top climate adviser says criticism of net zero goal is ‘defeatist’
Criticism of the UK’s net zero targets has been branded ‘defeatist’ by the chief executive of the Committee of Climate Change, ...
Carbon offsets are next big bet for US$3.2bn Tribeca Fund
Asian hedge fund, Tribeca Investment Partners, with assets under management of US$3.2bn, has bought around US$100m worth of carbon credits. The fund expects ...
White House withholds support for Democrat carbon border tax
The White House is withholding support for a Democratic proposal to impose a carbon tax on imports from China and other ...
UK solar additions slow in 2Q21
According to industry group, Solar Energy UK, the UK added a total of 135MW of solar capacity last quarter, down from ...