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The West African nation is preparing to import LNG under a long-term agreement with Shell which critics say Ghana doesn’t need and can’t afford.
The government is cutting climate finance, backing oil production and opposing air pollution measures in an attempt to win next year’s election
An upcoming summit on protecting the Amazon has become the focus of a Indigenous and civil society-led campaign to set up an exclusion zone for fossil fuels
Experts consulted by Climate Home News suggested the vote will define Ecuador’s economic model for the future.
Despite pushing for a phase out of unabated fossil fuels, Norway claims its oil and gas are “essential to Europe’s energy security”
Heaps of new renewable energy are going up in China, but there’s more to an energy transition than hardware
The word “unabated” qualifies commitments to phase out fossil fuels. But setting a clear definition is the subject of fierce debates.
Argentina’s political class is promoting fossil fuels as a patriotic national endeavour and demonising any environmentalists who oppose them
The current Colombia head of an American coal miner will face trial, accused of giving money to right-wing paramilitaries in the late nineties
The South African government has told cash-strapped power company Eskom it can’t invest in new electricity generation
A multi-billion dollar reparations scheme has been proposed for fossil fuel companies to atone for the damage caused by their greenhouse gas emissions
While President Lula’s environment minister Marina Silva supported the decision, Lula ally Randolfe Rodrigues vowed to oppose it
A business coalition in South Africa’s energy heartland is fighting against plans to shut down coal plants.
Critics say a focus on just the emissions from producing oil and gas not consuming it is a distraction and that similar initatives have not worked
An agenda-setting gathering of climate ministers saw continuing disagreement over the need for fossil fuels phase-out and the role of technology
If approved by the cabinet, India’s new electricity policy would end the construction of new coal-fired power plants after the planned 28 GW are built
The company is looking at how to get some money back despite Gustavo Petro’s government looking to ban it from fracking in Colombia
Canada and the UK pushed for the inclusion of a 2030 deadline to end domestic coal-fired electricity. But their plan failed following strong opposition.
A draft communique includes calls investments in gas production but that language is likely to prove controversial among the G7 climate ministers