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Report claims Rishi Sunak has unique opportunity to invest in zero-carbon infrastructure

Improved air quality, energy efficiency and energy security, plus falling cost of renewables among extra gains of reducing global emissions, says Fergus Green

Government targets leave emission levels too high to prevent a big temperature rise, warns team of experts led by economist Nicholas SternPledges at this year’s climate summit to cut carbon emissions are likely to fall...

Blasting shale rock may cause earthquakes and pollute water, but won't bring down energy bills in the UK as PM claimsThe claim by prime minister David Cameron that fracking in the UK can drive down domestic gas prices is...

Trillions of dollars at risk as stock markets inflate value of fossil fuels that may have to remain buried forever, experts warnThe world could be heading for a major economic crisis as stock markets inflate an investment...

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has just published The Failings of the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change. The  2006 Stern Review — named for Sir Nicholas Stern, head of the UK Government’s...

The future is bright for the world's economies to go low-carbon – but only if we act together and support developing countries

We still have a long way to go, but this week's climate decisions inch us towards the big target

The author of the Stern Review was upbeat in a talk given to promote his new book, A Blueprint for a Safer Planet