Greenhouse gas emissions from biofuels such as palm oil, soybean and rapeseed are higher than those for fossil fuels when the effects of Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) are counted, according to leaked EU data seen by EurActiv. More »

The huge reserves of coal, oil and gas held by companies listed in the City of London are "sub-prime" assets posing a systemic risk to economic stability, a high-profile coalition of investors, politicians and scientists has warned the Bank of England's governor, Mervyn King. More »

The European Investment Bank has been accused of funding the fossil fuel industry with €16 billion of loans since 2007, more than that stumped up for any other energy source.  More »

Carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have soared in the last 20 years, giving the world much less chance of avoiding dangerous climate change, new data show. More »

Just as with our gas supply, diversity of sources increases our energy security: renewables, fossil fuels and nuclear are not mutually exclusive. They work together to make our energy system more resilient. Our aim is a policy that is technology-neutral. We want to encourage competitive tension between all forms of generation, to get the best

Diversity increases our energy security: renewables, fossil fuels and nuclear power are not mutually exclusive, argues Chris Huhne.

So I suppose the jet she flew in on from her home in Colorado worked on rubber bands. - a commenter called 'SouthendViking' on the Telegraph, remarking about actress Daryl Hannah, who was arrested at a protest where she reportedly said: Before she was arrested, Hannah told WRC-TV the protesters want to be free from the "death and destruction" that fossil fuels cause. The group is calling...

Usual Guardianista nonsense, to which I respond thusly: Others say it is too costly to abandon the burning of fossil fuels even if this does dump billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. They say we should just put up with those spreading deserts and flooded coastlines – a notion of staggering immorality,

Yes, they really do exist. Subsidies for the use of fossil fuels. Obviously this is insane when we’ve also got huge subsidies for the use of non-fossil fuels. The thing is though, it’s different countries offering the different subsidies. It’s the rich western countries subsidising non-fossil while the fossil fuel subsidies are all in poor

Energy is precious – surely? The UK faces a decline in gas and oil output from the North Sea and for the first time in decades is importing the bulk of its fossil fuels. Despite long-term subsidy, renewable energy only satisfies a tiny part of the energy demands of the UK. So, you would think