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Coal

23/4/2025 News

Down but not out: Major cuts in coal since Paris Agreement, except in Asia

Nearly 60 countries have significantly scaled back plans for building coal-fired power plants since the Paris Agreement in 2015, according to Global Energy Monitor (GEM). But China and India continue to grow their coal power – bucking the trend. It remains to be seen whether the US will join them.

COP

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9/11/2022 News

COP27 looking to deliver the promises of Paris

The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 opened in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on 6 November 2022 with the key aim of ensuring full implementation of the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C by the end of this century.

Energy policy

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13/11/2024 News

Trump’s election could reshape US energy policy and hinder global climate action

As President-Elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House in January 2025, the energy sector is bracing itself for significant shifts in US energy policy. Despite fears that his repeated pledge to prioritise oil and gas production could slow global efforts to combat climate change, many experts believe robust growth of renewable energy in the US will persist. However, the fall-out of Trump’s electoral success has already been felt at the COP29 climate negotiations, which opened in Baku, Azerbaijan, this week.

Climate change

10/7/2024 News

Call for robust scientific standards and transparency to improve the voluntary carbon market

Scientific principles and transparency must lead the conversation about what ‘counts’ for carbon credits to build confidence in the voluntary carbon market (VCM), says the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG). Meanwhile, new US research challenges the current thinking on the ocean’s role in storing carbon and suggests proactive steps are needed to cut emissions now, rather than relying on these natural processes to ‘buy time’ to mitigate climate change.

Renewables

13/9/2023 News

Disappointment as no bids for offshore wind in latest UK government renewables auction

Although a record number of clean energy projects were awarded funding from the UK government’s latest contracts for difference (CfD) auction, there was disappointment as no bids were received for offshore wind projects – a result many industry observers saw as a ‘missed opportunity’ and a ‘wake-up call’ to government.

Oil and gas

4/10/2023 News

Go-ahead for Rosebank divides opinions

The controversial Rosebank oil and gas project, west of the Shetland Islands, has been given the green light for development in a move that has been both decried by those seeking to halt such developments in the fight against climate change and welcomed by those that believe oil and gas still have a role to play for decades to come as the world transitions to net zero.

Net zero / decarbonisation / energy transition

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28/9/2022 News

International ‘collaboration gap’ threatens to undermine progress on climate commitments and delay net zero by decades

A new report has set out urgent priorities to rapidly make more clean technologies the most affordable options in key sectors, warning that an international ‘collaboration gap’ is threatening to undermine action on climate change and delay net zero potentially by decades.

Coal

23/11/2022 News

A swift reduction in global coal emissions is central to climate challenge

The world must move quickly to significantly reduce CO₂ emissions from coal in order to avoid severe impacts from climate change, a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said. It has called for immediate policy action to mobilise massive financing for clean energy alternatives and to ensure secure, affordable and fair transitions, especially in emerging and developing economies.

COP

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26/11/2025 News

Hot and bothered: key outcomes of COP30 climate summit in Belém

There have been mixed reactions to the UN climate talks in Belém, Brazil. Heated debate and all-night discussions led only to a ‘voluntary plan’ to curb fossil fuels by some countries, a plan to triple adaptation finance, and sustained efforts to strengthen climate targets in the face of opposition.

Energy transition

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13/8/2025 Comment / Steve Hodgson

Where are you on the energy transition spectrum?

We live in strange times, with dissent over how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – and whether this is important at all – breaking out in the US and elsewhere. While others see an inevitable clean energy future arriving very soon. Steve Hodgson FEI, Editor-at-Large at New Energy World ponders.

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