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2022 (1)

• Saturday, September 24 - Highlands Rewilding up, running, and trying hard to help in the existential struggle to restore nature

2020 (11)

• Tuesday, November 3 - Solarcentury bought by Statkraft: what it means, and what I will do next in my campaigning on the climate crisis etc
• Sunday, October 18 - A tale of severe and growing social inequality in the Highlands, and two suggestions to help fix it
• Friday, September 18 - A history of the solar century so far: a tale of disruption, denial, and existential threat.
• Thursday, September 3 - Record donation of £920,000 from Solarcentury launches a new era at SolarAid
• Sunday, July 5 - The Bunloit Wildland project: full Q & A from recent interviews with UK media on mission and progress to date
• Tuesday, June 9 - Covid-19 has accelerated the stranding of fossil-fuel-economy assets. What does that mean for our world?
• Friday, April 17 - Sir John Houghton, a co-chair of the IPCC scientific group and hero of the climate struggle, has died of COVID-19
• Friday, April 10 - Imagine facing this pandemic in the dark. Let’s spare as many as we can in rural Zambia and Malawi that fate.
• Tuesday, March 31 - Climate crisis + Covid crisis = ? ….some early thoughts for companies able to help lead the green new deal
• Saturday, March 7 - A search for hope on the climate front lines in 2020: an idea for a new campaigning people-power company
• Wednesday, February 5 - Financing solar for a zero carbon world: panel discussions at two international conferences.

2019 (33)

• Saturday, November 2 - Why the UK government finally gave up on fracking. And why American shale drilling will crash.
• Thursday, October 24 - The quest for zero net carbon: globally and in the UK ….an eclectic tour (Business Green Summit presentation)
• Wednesday, October 23 - The global context of Solarcentury’s work: my presentation at the company’s quarterly review Oct. 22
• Friday, September 20 - This is one of the most heart-rending scenes I have witnessed in 3 decades of campaigning (13 sec video)
• Friday, September 20 - What it’s all about tomorrow: triggering a survival reflex in society in the face of climate chaos
• Thursday, September 19 - On the eve of the schoolchildrens’ strike for climate, a 2 minute video from parents all over the world
• Wednesday, September 11 - Global heating and the climate chaos that results from it: a summary to mark the schoolchildrens’ strike
• Sunday, September 1 - How liberal democracy can die ….on our watch: A pictures-and-charts summary for-the-busy
• Friday, August 9 - This is why we talk of extinction – A slideshow precis/analysis for-the-busy of the latest UN IPCC report
• Monday, August 5 - A groundbreaking report out today shows huge capital-efficiency advantage of solar and wind over oil
• Thursday, July 25 - Solarcentury donates >$0.5 million to SolarAid from 2018-19 profits: an appeal to other companies to join us
• Tuesday, July 23 - The global context of Solarcentury’s work: my presentation to the company’s quarterly review
• Tuesday, July 2 - Q2 2019: A chronology in pictures & charts of developments in climate, energy, tech & the future of civilisation
• Tuesday, June 4 - A global progress report on SDG7: a pictures-and-charts version of a blog for Business Green
• Tuesday, June 4 - An updated history of SolarAid in pictures and charts, to mark the sale of our 2 millionth solar lighting product
• Sunday, May 26 - The survival-investment gap and the Berlin Wall / Solarcentury’s history updated on our 21st birthday
• Monday, April 22 - Letter to the Times by business leaders supportive of Extinction Rebellion ….of which I am proud to be one
• Monday, April 15 - If we transitioned away from fossil fuels could we meet global energy demand 100% with renewables?
• Monday, April 1 - Q1 2019: A chronology in pictures & charts of developments in climate, energy, tech & the future of civilisation
• Monday, April 1 - “Cleantech start-ups pitch for cash amid surging enthusiasm for green investing”: Business Green
• Thursday, March 28 - Investment in the global energy transition: a report from the front lines as of March 28th 2019
• Friday, March 15 - Thoughts of hope for the students on strike today – and one person’s apology for his generation’s failure
• Friday, March 8 - The writing on the wall: a trillion dollar fund built on oil & gas exploration has just pulled out of oil & gas exploration
• Thursday, March 7 - China’s vision for climate action ….and the urgent need for a holistic global common-security agenda
• Wednesday, February 27 - Effect of fracking on climate: Letter to The Times from UK academics and environmentalists
• Wednesday, February 27 - Regulating fracking: response from Dr Jeremy Leggett and Prof David Smythe to geoscientists supportive of fracking
• Thursday, February 21 - A report from the front lines of the global energy transition as of 21 Feb 2019 – at TU Delft
• Sunday, February 17 - The striking schoolchildren, the changing climate and the emissions plans of the big oil companies
• Thursday, February 14 - What to do about the recent worrying news on insect decline: a short video blog presentation
• Thursday, February 7 - “We need to put jobs and poverty at the centre of climate action”: Philip Smith and Jeremy Leggett
• Friday, February 1 - The Great Global Energy Transition: A report from the front lines as of 31st January 2019
• Monday, January 21 - Westminster Energy Forum – Next steps for the renewable energy industry in the UK: The case of solar
• Wednesday, January 2 - 2018 Q4: A chronology in pictures & charts of developments in climate, energy, tech & the future of civilisation

2018 (410)

• Monday, December 31 - The FT Editorial Board has a problem with those who pretend to solve climate change. Who might they have in mind?
• Wednesday, December 19 - Jeremy Leggett interviewed on solar and Solarcentury by Solarcentury – the full 17 minute interview
• Saturday, December 15 - Why the UN Secretary-General is right to say that it is “immoral and suicidal” not to accelerate emissions reductions
• Sunday, December 9 - Why I have finally quit Facebook. A chronology of unfulfilled hope for democracy in pictures and charts.
• Monday, December 3 - SolarAid: A history in pictures and charts on the day we help launch an upgraded best-of-class solar light
• Wednesday, October 17 - God, Man, Tech and Climate: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber paints a picture for the Club of Rome
• Tuesday, October 16 - BBC Radio airs an unprecedented critique of the UK government’s undermining of renewables
• Tuesday, October 16 - History of oil and gas production from US shale, and UK hopes of copying it, in pictures and charts
• Tuesday, October 16 - A change of format on Future Today, from today
• Sunday, October 14 - Senior Tory MP protests lack of police investigation into breakages of law by 3 pro-Brexit campaigns
• Saturday, October 13 - Google to shut down Google+ after failing to disclose massive user data leak
• Saturday, October 13 - Businesses and organisations withdraw en masse from Saudi showcase summit, citing Khashoggi
• Friday, October 12 - Saudi government hit squad murdered dissident Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, strong evidence suggests
• Thursday, October 11 - “Dirty capital: London’s financial flows are polluted by laundered money”: Economist headline
• Thursday, October 11 - Hurricane Michael: Category 4 storm hits Florida for the 1st time ever, flattening whole neighbourhoods
• Thursday, October 11 - Coal has risen from ashes of 2013, as price has risen, to be top earning Australian export
• Thursday, October 11 - Carbon Tracker satellite analysis shows 40% of Chinese coal fleet is cash-flow negative in 2018
• Wednesday, October 10 - Huge reduction in meat-eating “essential” if the world is to avoid climate breakdown 
• Wednesday, October 10 - This week’s UN warning of climate chaos: is the total world rewrite they say we need doable?
• Tuesday, October 9 - Dutch appeals court upholds landmark climate change ruling: government must accelerate emissions cuts
• Tuesday, October 9 - CEO says Shell will not “go soft” on oil & gas, and vast reforestation will be needed for 1.5˚C target
• Tuesday, October 9 - “Big Oil Could Reap Windfall on Fossil Fuel Limits, Goldman Says”: Bloomberg headline
• Monday, October 8 - Landmark UN scientists’ report confirms ruinous contrast between 1.5˚C & 2˚C global warming 
• Wednesday, October 3 - With world debt well above 2008 levels, world economy is at risk of another financial crash: IMF
• Tuesday, October 2 - $1.45 tn of labelled green bonds and climate-aligned bonds leaves “headroom for huge growth” into 2020s
• Tuesday, October 2 - “We don’t discuss the question anymore of, ‘Is there climate change’,”: Munich Re in the WSJ
• Tuesday, October 2 - 2018 Q3: A chronology in pictures & charts of developments in climate, energy, tech & the future of civilisation
• Tuesday, October 2 - Denmark to set tightest national ban on new petrol and diesel cars: from 2030, hybrids from 2035
• Monday, October 1 - Beijing axes coal and steel production curbs as Trump’s trade war impacts economy
• Sunday, September 30 - Big energy firms ask for billions from UK taxpayer to build mini nuclear reactors …to be ready mid 2030s
• Saturday, September 29 - Tim Berners-Lee launches a radical plan to decentralise the World Wide Web, so that users own their data
• Saturday, September 29 - China sets renewable energy target of 35% by 2030 amid concerns about new coal-plant construction
• Saturday, September 29 - New California law compels two huge pension funds to disclose climate-related financial risk
• Friday, September 28 - UK coal revival as gas prices surge, reversing gains in clean power drive, and threatening emissions rise
• Wednesday, September 26 - UK Labour would target zero carbon by 2050, with 7x increase in offshore wind & 3x solar by 2030: global leadership
• Wednesday, September 26 - Methane leakage at 1,000 gas production sites in 8 US shale basins is more than double EPA’s results
• Wednesday, September 26 - “Relatively few” companies are disclosing climate risk, & v. few in financial filings, as TCFD recommends
• Monday, September 24 - How the ultra-rich could save the world, if they wanted to, in 22 pictures and charts
• Monday, September 24 - As much as 5% of gas produced in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale drilling is leaking to the atmosphere
• Friday, September 21 - “We definitely have the power to shut down power grids”: RUSI analyst on UK cyber war capabilities
• Thursday, September 20 - Danske Bank scandal was only possible because UK allows Kremlin to move dark money with impunity
• Thursday, September 20 - OECD warns global economic growth has peaked, cuts projections and blames trade tensions
• Wednesday, September 19 - UBS finds that only 39% of world’s High Net Worth Individuals have >1% of their assets invested ethically
• Tuesday, September 18 - Two directors quit UK fracking firm as Tory MPs tell of a rebellion in their ranks re no planning for fracking
• Saturday, September 15 - Evacuation warnings in place for 1.7 million and 800,000 without power in the Carolinas
• Friday, September 14 - “Sub-national actors” pile pressure on national governments at California climate summit
• Thursday, September 13 - 480 companies from 38 countries now base climate plans on SBTs: c. one eighth of global market capitalisation
• Thursday, September 13 - Ten years after the Lehman collapse, the world debt burden has ballooned $27 trillion to nearly $250 trillion
• Thursday, September 13 - Emissions have peaked in 27 of the C40 group of major cities, including London, New York, and Paris
• Tuesday, September 11 - “Fossil fuels will peak in the 2020s as renewables supply all growth in energy demand”: Carbon Tracker
• Monday, September 10 - UK’s Green New Deal Group calls for a “green jobs in every constituency” infrastructure-investment push
• Monday, September 10 - A Green New Deal 2018: the imperative for new energy and new jobs in the UK, and globally
• Monday, September 10 - Funds committed to divestment from fossil fuels now total more than $6 trillion (£4.6 trillion)
• Monday, September 10 - “Trump Administration Wants to Make It Easier to Release Methane Into Air”: New York Times
• Sunday, September 9 - A new first for the US shale gas industry: some of its product is being sold with ‘responsible’ branding
• Saturday, September 8 - Global wave of climate protests in dozens of countries as UN climate talks stumble on old issues
• Friday, September 7 - Google’s AI hate speech detector is easily fooled by a few typos or the insertion of words like “love”
• Thursday, September 6 - Ørsted opens world’s largest offshore windfarm off Cumbria: “the shape of projects going forward”
• Thursday, September 6 - “The evidence of a slowdown in the US shale is unmistakable now” despite oil prices >$65 for months
• Thursday, September 6 - “If you still have any illusions about the wonders of liberated capitalism (this) will probably cure you.”
• Wednesday, September 5 - Facebook and Twitter chiefs testify as Congress mulls regulation ….and Google refuses to show up.
• Wednesday, September 5 - If we made the $90 tn of infrastructure investment needed by 2030 Paris-congruent we would save $26 tn
• Wednesday, September 5 - “The Super Rich of Silicon Valley Have a Doomsday Escape Plan”: dinner party talk has turned to action
• Wednesday, September 5 - Booming stock markets mean the world’s 0.25 million super-rich now possess wealth of $31.5 trillion
• Tuesday, September 4 - “Why so little has changed since the financial crash”: Martin Wolf offers a clear view in the Financial Times
• Tuesday, September 4 - Intra-NATO collaboration is vital in an era of cyber warfare: former NSA director Keith Alexander
• Tuesday, September 4 - UK government blocks oil drilling at Surrey Hills site, citing impact on woodland and water
• Tuesday, September 4 - “Shale Plays Will Not Cause the Next Financial Crisis”: Art Berman …the debt pile isn’t big enough
• Sunday, September 2 - UK local government pension funds invest £9bn in fracking companies ….including Lancashire County
• Saturday, September 1 - “The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground”: Bethany McLean, author of famous book on Enron
• Friday, August 31 - State of California endorses Asilomar Principles to promote the safe and beneficial use of AI
• Friday, August 31 - LinkedIn struggles to contain a “super-aggressive” effort by China to recruit spies in US using fake accounts
• Thursday, August 30 - Canadian Federal Court of Appeal quashes approval of $9.3-bn Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion
• Thursday, August 30 - MPs publish a withering verdict on Facebook, Cam. Analytica, Russia …and infer Brexit vote may be illegal
• Tuesday, August 28 - Driverless taxi debuts in Tokyo ahead of Olympics in ‘world first’ trial with fee paying passengers
• Tuesday, August 28 - Trump accuses Google, Facebook & Twitter of favouring negative news stories about him
• Tuesday, August 28 - Facebook targets 100% renewable electricity by end 2020, joining Ikea & Citigroup despite soaring demand
• Tuesday, August 28 - Germany reaches 100,000 home battery systems …to add to its 1 million+ home solar PV systems
• Tuesday, August 28 - California’s legislators set landmark goal for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2045 …& 60% RE by 2030
• Tuesday, August 28 - There is now a recognisable global rightward shift on climate change: Robinson Meyer in The Atlantic
• Monday, August 27 - South African government cancels costly 9.6GW nuclear expansion plan, switching it to gas, wind, solar
• Monday, August 27 - AI can now make high-definition fake videos from just a simple sketch overlain on a trained template
• Sunday, August 26 - Trump says US is “working now on a military plan” based on a national-security need for coal revival
• Friday, August 24 - University researchers demonstrate how easy hacking a robot is, taking over movement & speech
• Wednesday, August 22 - Why the UK nuclear renaissance plan is doomed to failure, in 30 pictures and charts
• Wednesday, August 22 - Continent-wide ban on halogen lightbulbs begins in Europe 1st Sept, slashing emissions & energy bills
• Wednesday, August 22 - Big Oil asks US government for $12 bn to pay for sea wall to save Texas oil coast from sea-level rise
• Tuesday, August 21 - Arctic’s oldest and thickest sea ice, north of Greenland, breaks up for first time on record
• Tuesday, August 21 - EU carbon price rise set to drive substantial switching from coal to gas for power 2019-2023
• Tuesday, August 21 - Bank of England warns that AI threatens lengthy and widespread unemployment in the UK
• Monday, August 20 - Methane release from Arctic permafrost found to be > doubled by unexpectedly abrupt thawing
• Friday, August 17 - “Big Trouble Brewing At The Bakken: Rapid Rise In Water Production Signals Red Flag Warning”
• Friday, August 17 - Cornell Professor Anthony Ingraffea explains why frackers’ plans threaten America’s water supply
• Friday, August 17 - Renewables offset fossil & nuclear shortfalls in generation as heatwave limits water use of conventional power
• Thursday, August 16 - Solar in use on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with AI “for all tactical, surveillance / inspection” missions
• Thursday, August 16 - Heatwaves are proving Mrs Thatcher was right on global warming 30 years ago: a former Tory leader in the Mail
• Thursday, August 16 - UK government drops the question about fracking from their regular public-attitude survey on energy
• Wednesday, August 15 - Fracking wastewater volume rose 1,440% in 5 years, water use 770%, adding to tension in dry regions
• Wednesday, August 15 - China follows the US in building a fleet of autonomous, AI-powered submarines, ready 2020
• Wednesday, August 15 - “Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar”: a bombshell Reuters investigation
• Monday, August 13 - Google records your location even after you have used a privacy setting telling it not to
• Monday, August 13 - US elections remain “dangerously vulnerable” to cyber-attacks, experts continue to warn
• Monday, August 13 - The Race of Our Lives: A summary of Jeremy Grantham’s note to investors, in pictures and charts
• Sunday, August 12 - More than 100 large wildfires burn in USA, with more expected today …and increasingly in future as world warms
• Sunday, August 12 - Shell heading back to deepwater drilling, where breakeven costs are now as low as $30, they say
• Thursday, August 9 - “Why oil firms should worry more about climate change”: too-high oil price assumed, assets overvalued
• Tuesday, August 7 - China restarts coal plant construction after two-year freeze: 46.7 GW of new plants visible in satellite imagery
• Tuesday, August 7 - Top journalists write graphically about their terror of climate meltdown, including deep fears for their children
• Tuesday, August 7 - “Climate change: ‘Hothouse Earth’ risks even if CO2 emissions slashed”: BBC, reporting scientists’ fears
• Monday, August 6 - Apple, Facebook, YouTube and Spotify ban racial-hate-stirrer Alex Jones of InfoWars – only Twitter doesn’t
• Sunday, August 5 - “Our climate plans are in pieces as killer summer shreds records”: CNN review of heatwaves around world
• Sunday, August 5 - Sweden building enough wind turbines to reach its 2030 renewable energy target by the end of this year
• Saturday, August 4 - First drone assassination attempt on a head of state ….It won’t be the last, says Wired
• Friday, August 3 - SEC, under Trump-appointee chairman, drops investigation of ExxonMobil climate-risk reporting
• Friday, August 3 - Growing numbers of UK churches are divesting from fossil fuel companies and investing in renewables
• Friday, August 3 - Air pollution linked to changes in structure of the heart of the sort seen in early stages of heart failure
• Thursday, August 2 - Report finding that fracking increases air pollution buried for 3 years by UK government, until…..
• Thursday, August 2 - World passes 1,000 GW of wind and solar, on a rising exponential curve, in the last days of June: BNEF
• Wednesday, August 1 - Heatwave forces 3 Nordic reactors to be curbed, 1 to close, more expected, and EDF may shut 4 French reactors
• Tuesday, July 31 - Worried web builders aiming to design a decentralised web, the DWeb, gather at a summit on the internet
• Tuesday, July 31 - Facebook uncovers disinformation campaign aiming to influence US midterm elections
• Sunday, July 29 - “A firsthand account of how the UKIP surge drove the Tories to sabotage the renewables industry”
• Friday, July 27 - Twitter stock plunges 20% after 1m quit following cull of fake and offensive accounts: 70m+ of 320m
• Thursday, July 26 - BP heads into US shale oil and gas by buying BHP’s assets – up for sale nearly a year – for $10.5bn
• Thursday, July 26 - Facebook reveals growth slowing & revenues down post Cambridge Analytica: share price plummets
• Thursday, July 26 - Amazon face recognition falsely identifies 28 members of Congress as past arrestees, ACLU finds
• Wednesday, July 25 - “Current fake news pales in comparison to the harm that could come from deepfakes”
• Wednesday, July 25 - EDF’s Flamanville cracked pipe latest: forerunner of UK nuclear renaissance now 7 years late and €7bn over budget
• Wednesday, July 25 - BNEF NEO: “Every year a big surprise” …2018’s is wind & solar at nearly 50% of global electricity by 2050
• Wednesday, July 25 - Renewables c.30% of UK electricity in 2017, set for c.50% by 2025 ….but could have been 100% by 2025
• Wednesday, July 25 - Decline rate in the top US shale oilfields has steadily increased to half a million barrels per day now
• Tuesday, July 24 - Energy Minister Claire Perry finally gives Cuadrilla the go-ahead to start fracking in Lancashire
• Tuesday, July 24 - Tepco, long a mainstay of the nuclear industry, pivots to renewable energy, and seeks overseas partners
• Tuesday, July 24 - “Ridiculously expensive” nuclear power can’t compete with solar power says former IEA boss and nuclear advocate
• Tuesday, July 24 - Heavy industry turns to renewables, including aluminium smelters, cement plants & “green steel”
• Monday, July 23 - “Summer of extreme temperatures continues, to the beat of climate change”: CNN
• Monday, July 23 - “Elected Leaders Are Making the World Less Democratic”: Bloomberg contrasts indices from 2012 and 2018
• Monday, July 23 - Both sides in an Indonesian election use fake social-media-account “factories” to whip up hatred
• Saturday, July 21 - Trump’s tiny election margin and Russia’s major hacking access lead The Economist to conclude…
• Friday, July 20 - WhatsApp’s tiny anti-hate step: message forwarding limited to 20, and 5 in India ….after mob lynchings
• Friday, July 20 - “How can Facebook stop climate misinformation when its ‘fact-checkers’ are deniers?”
• Thursday, July 19 - Zuckerberg says Facebook will not ban Holocaust deniers and other extreme conspiracy theorists
• Thursday, July 19 - Swarm of 30 independent drones programmed to self organise, including choice of direction
• Thursday, July 19 - Farnborough Air Show features a “smorgasbord” of new robotic technologies, on all scales
• Thursday, July 19 - Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse predict large contraction of global solar installation rate in 2018
• Thursday, July 19 - UK government proposes, on same day, no payments for solar electricity exports & no planning need for fracking
• Thursday, July 19 - US District Judge dismisses New York’s global warming suit against oil companies
• Thursday, July 19 - Wildfires rage across the Arctic Circle – worst in Sweden, which calls for international help
• Wednesday, July 18 - Gas flaring dropped globally in 2017 for first time since 2013 ….but still very high, & up 7% in the US
• Wednesday, July 18 - 2,600 scientists, including 3 Google DeepMind co-founders, sign pledge not to develop killer AI robots
• Wednesday, July 18 - Google fined £3.8bn by EU over “serious illegal behaviour” in Android antitrust violations
• Tuesday, July 17 - Clean energy investment fell 3% in 2017, and expect another fall in 2018, says a worried IEA
• Tuesday, July 17 - Facebook protected far-right activists even after rule breaches: Channel 4 investigation
• Monday, July 16 - Siemens boss urges need for retraining in a global car workforce facing one third cuts in a decade
• Sunday, July 15 - How liberal democracy can die, in our lifetimes: a summary in 30 pictures and charts
• Friday, July 13 - On eve of Trump / Putin meeting, US DoJ indicts 12 Russian spies for hacking attack on 2016 US election
• Friday, July 13 - People are easily identifiable in huge “anonymized” online datasets, multiple studies show
• Friday, July 13 - Iberdrola is using drones to spot faulty solar panels and wind turbine blades way ahead of engineers
• Thursday, July 12 - “American democracy’s built-in bias towards rural Republicans”: The Economist
• Thursday, July 12 - National Grid Future Energy Scenarios: Solar could be UK’s ‘dominant’ source of power by 2030
• Thursday, July 12 - Ireland will be the first country to divest from all fossil fuels after all-party support in a Parliamentary vote
• Wednesday, July 11 - Ex-Cambridge Analytica staff launch venture using same techniques …and already have a client in an African state
• Wednesday, July 11 - UK Information Commissioner fines Facebook the maximum possible over a data scandal ….£500,000
• Wednesday, July 11 - “How to 3-D Print an Entire House in a Single Day” …costing only $4K: ideal for housing crises, development
• Wednesday, July 11 - Whitehall plan to keep NI lights on in a hard Brexit: a flotilla of requisitioned barges plus diesel generators
• Tuesday, July 10 - UK NIC urges HMG to grab the ‘golden opportunity’ to ditch nuclear and go with cheaper solar and wind
• Tuesday, July 10 - Tesla takes big bet on China by announcing a factory in Shanghai, to double EV production
• Monday, July 9 - “What If Trump Has Been a Russian Asset Since 1987?” Jonathan Chait in NY Magazine
• Monday, July 9 - China’s Belt and Road difficulties proliferate across the world in the face of local controversies
• Sunday, July 8 - “Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras”: New York Times
• Sunday, July 8 - “Electoral law has been broken – this is a fight for the soul of our democracy”: The Guardian
• Saturday, July 7 - “I was shocked it was so easy”: ​meet the professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you’re gay
• Friday, July 6 - Amazon’s AI lets governments track all faces …there is “no way to use this and not harm citizens”
• Friday, July 6 - New UK solar and wind could be cheaper than existing gas plants within the 2020s: Climate Change Committee
• Friday, July 6 - Analysts fear an oil spike above $150 in wake of low investment since 2014 and record low discovery rates
• Thursday, July 5 - “Survival of the Richest: The Wealthy Are Plotting To Leave Us Behind”: tech author Douglas Rushkoff
• Thursday, July 5 - Shell CEO says firm carbon emissions targets are “superfluous”, and society should simply trust him
• Thursday, July 5 - “Red-hot planet: All-time heat records have been set all over the world during the past week”: Washington Post
• Thursday, July 5 - “How Digitalization Is Ushering in a New Solar Era”: GE on digital twins and smart dispatchability
• Wednesday, July 4 - “It’s going to create a revolution”: how AI is transforming the UK’s National Health Service
• Wednesday, July 4 - Opportunity Despite: History and future of the UK solar PV market in pictures and charts
• Tuesday, July 3 - SEC joins FBI, Justice Department & Federal Trade Commission in probing Facebook data breaches
• Tuesday, July 3 - Facebook confesses to another false disclosure: it gave 61 companies access to user data blocked for most
• Monday, July 2 - UK solar hits record weekly highs in heatwave …and tops gas as the biggest generator for an hour or so
• Monday, July 2 - 2018 Q2: A chronology in pictures & charts of developments in climate, energy, tech & the future of civilisation
• Friday, June 29 - Yingli Green Energy, formerly the world number 1 solar PV manufacturer, is delisted from the NYSE
• Friday, June 29 - California passes broadest digital privacy law of any US state, somewhat like GDPR, to enter force 2020
• Friday, June 29 - “Why Tech Worker Dissent Is Going Viral”: Wired headline – protest is “tearing through” tech giants
• Friday, June 29 - Facebook patents a system that can use your phone’s microphone to monitor TV habits …& ambient sound
• Thursday, June 28 - BP, expecting 140k EVs to grow to 12m by 2040, buys UK’s biggest electric car charger for £130m
• Tuesday, June 26 - “Trial runs for fascism are in full flow”: Trump has “an acute understanding of test marketing”
• Tuesday, June 26 - UK democracy under threat, electoral regulator warns, calling on government for urgent reform
• Monday, June 25 - Two federal judges rule against and for hearing of cities’ suits versus oil companies over climate costs
• Sunday, June 24 - Erdoğan narrowly wins Turkish election in “climate of fear” (Amnesty), assuming quasi-dictatorial powers
• Saturday, June 23 - Only one new community energy group formed in the UK in 2017 as subsidies went to fossil fuels
• Saturday, June 23 - “A 14th straight YouGov poll shows Britain wishes it had never voted to leave the EU”: Business Insider
• Friday, June 22 - “A single picture can be worth thousands of words. Here is what this one means to me, in less than 100.”
• Friday, June 22 - Methane leaks from the US oil and gas industry c.60% higher than government estimates, new study finds
• Friday, June 22 - In a boost for privacy rights, US Supreme Court rules police need a warrant to track phone data
• Friday, June 22 - Employees and American Civil Liberties Union demand Amazon stop facilitating government surveillance
• Friday, June 22 - There is a growing “crisis of liberalism”, the Economist laments – but it can be fixed
• Wednesday, June 20 - Trump’s separation of immigrant children from parents creates a storm of protest in Silicon Valley
• Tuesday, June 19 - Audi CEO Rupert Stadler, a VW board member since 2010, is arrested over diesel cheating scandal
• Tuesday, June 19 - As global solar capacity soars in 2017, new solar in the UK halves for a second year running
• Tuesday, June 19 - Battery cost-down will mean wind and PV at a combined 50% of global power by 2050: BNEF
• Monday, June 18 - IBM AI holds its own against human debaters , including jokes and accusations opponents are lying
• Monday, June 18 - HMG gives UK pension funds green light to dump fossil fuel investments if they see risk of stranding
• Monday, June 18 - Clean energy investment must be 50% higher for the 1.5˚C Paris global warming target than for 2˚C
• Monday, June 18 - Interview: global energy transition, solar & Solarcentury role in it, China, Trump – & oil CEOs retirement worries
• Sunday, June 17 - Police link dozens of murders and serious assaults to rumours spread on WhatsApp in India
• Friday, June 15 - UK tech leaders say scale of government’s visa cap removal is not enough to fix skills shortage
• Friday, June 15 - Of the top 50 tech startups by value, 26 are Chinese and 16 are American, with none from Europe
• Thursday, June 14 - UK police face legal action over use of automated facial recognition cameras, if they don’t stop
• Thursday, June 14 - EU strikes deal on 32% renewable energy by 2030 target, including strong solar provisions, especially residential
• Wednesday, June 13 - Sea level rise due to Antarctic ice melt has tripled in the past five years, satellite measurements show
• Wednesday, June 13 - “Oil must face its future as a declining industry”: Legal & General Investment Management in the FT
• Wednesday, June 13 - The opportunities & risks inherent in clean-energy revolution & fossil-fuel stranding: Keynote at FundForum 2018
• Wednesday, June 13 - Now AI can be used to track movements of people through a wall, and model what they are doing
• Tuesday, June 12 - Democracy has regressed in multiple countries since 2007, and liberal democracy especially
• Monday, June 11 - Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, also founder of Oculus, aims to develop a range of AI military tools
• Monday, June 11 - US start up Anduril tests AI surveillance tech on Mexico border that acts as a virtual border wall
• Monday, June 11 - Impact4All column on government bailouts of Transmountain Pipeline, Wylfa nuclear plant and US coal
• Sunday, June 10 - Microsoft begins to put data centres under the sea, seeking energy efficiency, beginning off Scotland
• Sunday, June 10 - Oil groups say backlash against plastics will not derail the industry’s big bet on petrochemicals
• Saturday, June 9 - Pope Francis invites oil bosses to the Vatican and tells them that they must switch to clean energy
• Saturday, June 9 - Brussels changes rules to boost Paris-congruent financial products & disclose climate risk of others
• Friday, June 8 - 2018 global solar demand to increase 11% to 105 GW despite China cuts, IHS Markit forecasts
• Thursday, June 7 - With bees scarce, a drone pollinates an apple orchard for the first time ….results yet to be seen
• Wednesday, June 6 - New Facebook revelation: data shared with four Chinese consumer-device makers, including Huawei
• Wednesday, June 6 - People’s Liberation Army and corporate China “draw ever closer” as military budget rises: FT
• Wednesday, June 6 - AI can now manipulate people’s movements and speech in photorealistic fake videos
• Wednesday, June 6 - Trump’s hopes to save America’s failing coal-fired power plants are “all about the base”: The Economist
• Wednesday, June 6 - “Utilities dispel all doubts about renewables’ ability to power planet”: Recharge on Eurelectric summit
• Tuesday, June 5 - Chinese government slams the brakes on domestic solar, and the global industry braces for the impact
• Tuesday, June 5 - The week of the white elephants: The UK, US, and Canadian governments all tried to bail out the energy incumbency
• Tuesday, June 5 - 4 companies in $30 billion sex technology industry now sell robots, one with AI “conversation”
• Monday, June 4 - In a remarkable U-turn, the UK government agrees to £5bn public stake in a Welsh nuclear power station
• Monday, June 4 - Investment in renewables in 2017 was less than it was in 2011 …it has essentially been flat since then
• Monday, June 4 - REN21: Renewables growth in heating, cooling, and transport are well behind the electricity generation sector
• Monday, June 4 - Hungarian government tables new law that could jail lawyers and activists advising migrants of their rights
• Sunday, June 3 - Google reacts to internal and external pressure and drops Pentagon project for facial recognition AI
• Friday, June 1 - Trump orders emergency federal action to stem coal and nuclear plant shutdowns
• Friday, June 1 - Protestors opposing oil drilling off Brazil and French Guiana make their point in Total’s AGM
• Friday, June 1 - UK homes vulnerable to a “staggering” level of corporate surveillance, a Which? survey finds
• Friday, June 1 - Teens are abandoning Facebook in dramatic numbers, a Pew Research Center poll finds
• Thursday, May 31 - Zuckerberg and his board suffer a barrage from investors and protestors at Facebook’s annual meeting
• Thursday, May 31 - “World’s Biggest AI Startup Raises $1.2 Billion in Mere Months”: Bloomberg on Sense Time Group
• Thursday, May 31 - China is using modern tech & age-old repression to turn Xinjiang “into a police state like no other”: Economist
• Thursday, May 31 - French nuclear regulator fears “epidemic” safety-culture collapse at Flamanville: disaster looms for EDF
• Thursday, May 31 - “A 14th straight YouGov poll shows Britain wishes it had never voted to leave the EU”: Business Insider
• Thursday, May 31 - Europe’s largest asset manager Amundi sees a “tipping point” in climate-risk aware investing
• Wednesday, May 30 - “Global warming is making tropical cyclones stronger”, renowned climatologists conclude
• Wednesday, May 30 - Q&A with Solarcentury founder Jeremy Leggett on the 20th birthday of the company: “proud, grateful and lucky”.
• Tuesday, May 29 - In a single day, the electric car boom is given a billion-dollar boost in 3 US states
• Tuesday, May 29 - Canadian government bails out a stranded Kinder Morgan oil pipeline system for $4.5 bn
• Tuesday, May 29 - IEA publishes a new monitoring tool showing only 4 of 38 energy sectors are on track with Paris targets
• Monday, May 28 - AI increases risk of nuclear war because of risk of hacking of military communications in time of crisis
• Friday, May 25 - FBI says Russians hacked hundreds of thousands of home and office routers in more than 50 countries
• Friday, May 25 - Scotland sets one of the toughest greenhouse-gas targets in the world: a binding cut of 90% by 2050
• Friday, May 25 - 28 governments of the EU implement a new privacy law: the General Data Protection Regulation
• Thursday, May 24 - In 2017, the global economy grew $3.9tn …& global debt grew $21tn to $237tn: the implosion “is approaching”
• Thursday, May 24 - From 2000 – 2017 US GDP grew $10 trillion to $19.7tn …while US all-sector debt grew from $27.2tn to $68.6tn
• Wednesday, May 23 - Hitting 1.5˚C Paris target will save the world $30 trillion in climate-related damages this century
• Monday, May 21 - Tech: nirvana or nightmare? State-of-play report: An analysis of recent years in pictures and charts
• Monday, May 21 - Twitter bots altered the outcomes of both the Trump and Brexit elections by targeting margins
• Monday, May 21 - Carbon Tracker on oil companies’ climate business-risk assessments: “a large gap remains”
• Friday, May 18 - Google sets limits on its use of AI, but will work with the military in “many areas”, and self-police
• Friday, May 18 - “How Lousy Shale Economics Will Pull Down The U.S. Economy”: SRSrocco Report
• Thursday, May 17 - UK green investment falls to lowest in a decade and government moves to make fracking easy
• Thursday, May 17 - “There are no roadblocks on the way to a 100% renewable future …all issues can be addressed at low cost”
• Thursday, May 17 - Climate change on track to cause “major insect wipeout” with “far-reaching disruption to life on Earth”
• Wednesday, May 16 - Water shortages likely to be the key environmental challenge of the century, Nasa warns
• Wednesday, May 16 - “Nissan’s Following Tesla Into Solar Power and Home Batteries” …is mass solar V2G in the offing?
• Tuesday, May 15 - Repsol will end pursuit of oil and gas growth and chase energy transition instead
• Tuesday, May 15 - Collapsing Venezuelan oil exports push oil price to $78, highest level since the big price drop in 2014
• Tuesday, May 15 - Fly-sized robots can now be powered by a laser and tiny solar photovoltaic cell: a new first in robotics
• Tuesday, May 15 - Hungarian government repression forces Soros Open Society Foundations to retreat to Berlin
• Monday, May 14 - Rolls-Royce to go ‘fully electric’ by 2040, calculating UK and France will not be alone in banning ICE sales
• Sunday, May 13 - UK on track to phase-out coal by 2025 without the need for any new large gas plants: WWF report
• Saturday, May 12 - Facebook mislead UK Parliament over Russian interference in Brexit vote, MPs say
• Friday, May 11 - “You’ll be able to buy a Boston Dynamics SpotMini soon, please don’t teach it to kill”
• Friday, May 11 - The $100bn Softbank – Saudi Vision Fund is placing huge bets in those it favours across the tech world
• Friday, May 11 - “From Drone Swarms to Tree Batteries, New Tech Is Revolutionizing Ecology and Conservation” ….but
• Thursday, May 10 - “Terrorists Are Still Recruiting on Facebook, Despite Zuckerberg’s Reassurances”: Bloomberg
• Thursday, May 10 - “Facebook’s dual-class share structure is akin to a dictatorship”: Calstrs portfolio manager in the FT
• Thursday, May 10 - Uber reveals plans for electric flying taxi-service to be launched by 2023 – with no vehicles yet built
• Thursday, May 10 - Russia is only 12th in the global economic league table, and not likely to move up soon
• Thursday, May 10 - “Google’s AI fest offers an ominous glimpse of the robot future”: Richard Waters in the FT
• Thursday, May 10 - The “clean trillion” – the extra c. $1 tn p.a. needed through 2050 for Paris 2˚C – is “eminently feasible”
• Thursday, May 10 - A perspective on California’s solar roof mandate on BBC World TV News: “That’s good news for you, isn’t it”
• Wednesday, May 9 - California set to be first US state to require solar panels on new homes, starting in 2020
• Wednesday, May 9 - Solarcentury wins tender to install thousands of group-purchased discount solar roofs across London
• Wednesday, May 9 - Wind, solar, & storage companies are “recruiting coal miners for their work ethics & high-tech skills”
• Wednesday, May 9 - “Cheap renewable energy is killing India’s coal-based power plants” – 20% of plants are stranded
• Tuesday, May 8 - More than 10 million people now work in renewables for the first time, 3.4 million of them in solar
• Tuesday, May 8 - US-China tech wars threaten ‘economic carnage’ as US seeks to rein in growing power of Chinese tech
• Tuesday, May 8 - Trump violates the Iran nuclear agreement, imperiling the global non-proliferation regime
• Tuesday, May 8 - Extra climate talks scheduled for September in Bangkok after stalemate in Bonn session
• Monday, May 7 - Greenhouse emissions impact of tourism could be four times larger than previously thought
• Monday, May 7 - California laws seek to keep smart city surveillance tech in check, especially regarding who has access to the data
• Monday, May 7 - A criminal gang has used a drone swarm to obstruct and spy on an FBI hostage surveillance operation
• Sunday, May 6 - New cracks in a reactor core at Hunterston raise questions about reliability of entire UK nuclear fleet
• Saturday, May 5 - Welsh police used face scanning software that incorrectly flagged more than 2,000 as criminals
• Wednesday, May 2 - US solar and wind energy company donations are now going far more to Republicans than Democrats
• Wednesday, May 2 - 1,000 economists warn Trump his trade views echo errors that led to the 1930s Great Depression
• Wednesday, May 2 - “Despite North Korea, arms control is unravelling” …“a complacent world is playing with Armageddon”
• Tuesday, May 1 - “The AI arms race: China and US compete to dominate big data”: Financial Times
• Tuesday, May 1 - UN climate talks open in Bonn with the clock ticking on agreement of rules for the Paris Agreement
• Tuesday, May 1 - The Paris challenge: current policies come nowhere close to the target, and pledges fall well short
• Tuesday, May 1 - The Paris challenge: renewables growth and retreat from coal too slow …and oil and gas continue to grow
• Tuesday, May 1 - Air pollution kills 7 million people a year, WHO reports, and 90% globally breathe polluted air
• Monday, April 30 - All 197 signatories of Paris Agreement are now taking action, with more than 1,500 climate laws and policies
• Monday, April 30 - Major US-UK research project targets the world’s most dangerous glacier: Antarctica’s Thwaites
• Monday, April 30 - Solar panels capable of mining water from the air to be trialed at 150 sites across Australia
• Monday, April 30 - The Green Energy Revolution Is Happening Faster Than You Think: my first column for Impact4All
• Monday, April 30 - First-ever commercial use of robot delivery drivers: food deliveries on a Silicon Valley campus
• Monday, April 30 - Chinese companies conduct ‘emotional surveillance’ of workers’ via hat or helmet sensors
• Saturday, April 28 - Google co-founder Sergey Brin flags concerns about AI: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
• Saturday, April 28 - “Scientists struggle to explain a worrying rise in atmospheric methane”: Economist
• Friday, April 27 - Global solar lighting sales have essentially stalled since 2015 …despite a steep rise in investment
• Friday, April 27 - High court rules the UK government mass data surveillance legislation is incompatible with EU law
• Thursday, April 26 - By encoding data into molecules of DNA, we could in principle “fit entire data centers in a few flasks”
• Thursday, April 26 - “We’re about to see an influx of data from five billion new minds”, says Peter Diamandis of the Singularity University
• Thursday, April 26 - US fracking companies tipped from yet more debt to profit by Trump tax law change at end of 2016
• Thursday, April 26 - Hawaii adopts world-first law directing utilities to adopt new business models decoupling revenue and capex
• Thursday, April 26 - The price of carbon is being driven up by EU policy: Carbon Tracker projects 2x by 2021 & 4x by 2030
• Thursday, April 26 - UK Government poll finds a record 85% public support for renewable energy, and 87% for solar
• Thursday, April 26 - Offshore UK OGI “perilously close to disasters” as a result of neglected gas leakage, HSE warns
• Tuesday, April 24 - German citizen energy would rank within Europe’s top 15 largest energy retailers, if it were a company
• Tuesday, April 24 - In 2017, 30% of EU’s power mix was renewable, 74% of Denmark’s, 30% of Germany’s
• Tuesday, April 24 - 64% of US companies are pledged to act on climate, but only 36% have set dated targets, and 9% science-based
• Tuesday, April 24 - Tech investment pioneer launches competition to find and fund a social network to replace Facebook
• Monday, April 23 - Amazon has a top-secret plan to build domestic robots, possibly available to consumers by 2019
• Monday, April 23 - Every five weeks, Chinese cities are adding 9,500 electric buses – the size of the London bus fleet
• Sunday, April 22 - As the oil price rises, some US shale drillers finally just about recoup the cost of their drilling
• Sunday, April 22 - “Hedge-Fund Investors Pour Into Oil as Firms Predict Surge to $80”: Bloomberg. $100 oil ahead again?
• Saturday, April 21 - UK’s car industry faces post-Dieselgate crisis: falling sales & widespread job cuts
• Saturday, April 21 - “Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match”: New York Times.
• Friday, April 20 - Schlumberger foresees oil supply challenges this year after “dramatic drop” in E & P investment
• Friday, April 20 - The “hockey stick” of global average temperature 20 years on: when being right must hurt
• Thursday, April 19 - Former UK Secretary of State for Business calls for break-up of Google, Facebook and Amazon
• Thursday, April 19 - Facebook moves 1.5bn users out of reach of new the EU’s privacy law ahead of 25 May entry into force
• Thursday, April 19 - Trump permits US weapons companies to sell laser-guided killer drones direct to other countries
• Wednesday, April 18 - UK clean energy projects stifled as energy networks’ charge high fees for connection enquiries
• Wednesday, April 18 - “Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit”: DeSmogBlog launches series on $280 bn debt pile
• Tuesday, April 17 - 9 years on, the 9-state US carbon trading program is cutting emissions ….& boosting economies & jobs
• Tuesday, April 17 - Renewables must be scaled up at least six times faster to meet the Paris Agreement target: IRENA
• Tuesday, April 17 - French oil and gas giant Total takes another step into renewables, buying 75% of Direct Energie
• Monday, April 16 - US agencies and UK’s GCHQ blame the Kremlin for a sustained cyber-offensive in recent months
• Sunday, April 15 - Shell urges investors to reject AGM motion that would commit the company to Paris-congruent emissions
• Friday, April 13 - “What Hearings? Advertisers Still Love Facebook”: Wired. Ad agencies expect its revenue to rise steeply.
• Friday, April 13 - World’s most powerful wind turbine installed off Scotland: 191 metres, 8.8 MW, by Vestas for Vattenfall
• Friday, April 13 - Fast shale-well depletion means “the oil and gas infrastructure bubble is over”: John Dizard in the FT
• Friday, April 13 - Shipping to cut its carbon footprint in half by 2050 under a hard-fought international agreement
• Thursday, April 12 - Bay Area ferry fleet will transition to 100% renewable diesel fuel, San Francisco mayor says
• Thursday, April 12 - World’s first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden: 2 km, but part of a national plan
• Thursday, April 12 - Shell sets out energy transition strategy, telling investors they see little chance of stranded assets
• Thursday, April 12 - US green group EDF aims to launch a satellite to spot methane leakage from oil and gas operations
• Thursday, April 12 - New Zealand bans future offshore oil and gas drilling in support of Paris targets
• Thursday, April 12 - Zuckerberg evasive on tracking, browsing, profiling, & need to change business model to protect privacy
• Wednesday, April 11 - Retired BP executive, one the UK’s most eminent geologists, suggests The Carbon War is over
• Tuesday, April 10 - Apple reaches 100% renewable power for all its operations in 43 countries …less than a week after Google
• Tuesday, April 10 - EDF warns of yet more delay and cost over-run at Flamanville nuclear plant, forerunner of UK’s Hinkley Point C
• Tuesday, April 10 - UK and US lawyers launch a joint class action against Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
• Tuesday, April 10 - “Congress tried to crack Zuckerberg – but Facebook still has all the power”: Guardian
• Tuesday, April 10 - Global insured losses of $144 bn in 2017 were the highest ever, economic losses of $337 bn 2nd highest
• Monday, April 9 - The world’s most valuable AI startup, China’s SenseTime Group, targets nationwide facial recognition
• Monday, April 9 - After huge populist win in Hungarian election, Viktor Orbán immediately targets Soros-backed NGOs
• Monday, April 9 - Governments meet in Geneva to consider global ban on killer robots, with an arms race underway
• Monday, April 9 - “A Global Arms Race for Killer Robots Is Transforming Warfare”: Time article summarises the danger
• Sunday, April 8 - HSBC becomes the latest bank to deploy AI to help spot money laundering
• Saturday, April 7 - Facebook suspends data firm hired by Vote Leave over alleged Cambridge Analytica ties
• Saturday, April 7 - US Homeland Security to compile database for monitoring of journalists and ‘media influencers’
• Friday, April 6 - Carney warns once again of climate change threat to financial system, and imperative of risk disclosure
• Friday, April 6 - “Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook”: Wired headline flags a pattern
• Friday, April 6 - Twitter executive on Trump election: “We all had this ‘holy shit’ moment …Did we create this monster?”
• Friday, April 6 - MIT researchers develop a device that can ‘hear’ words spoken in thought, via neuromuscular signals
• Friday, April 6 - Elon Musk warns of prospect for “an immortal dictator from which we can never escape”
• Thursday, April 5 - Solar leads charge as global renewables build tops 2 terawatts (2,179 gigawatts)
• Thursday, April 5 - “IEA accused of undermining global shift from fossil fuels” by emphasising scenarios that do not hit Paris targets
• Thursday, April 5 - Shell knew about the dire implications of climate change before the first IPCC report came out in 1990
• Thursday, April 5 - “China Vows to Fight Trump Tariffs ‘to the End’ as Tension Rises”: Bloomberg headline
• Thursday, April 5 - AI experts call for boycott over killer robots project teaming a South Korea university with Hanwha
• Thursday, April 5 - Renewables, mostly solar and wind, are on track to replace all coal, oil and gas by 2032: ANU scientists
• Thursday, April 5 - Solar leads charge as global renewables build tops 2 terawatts (2,179 gigawatts)
• Thursday, April 5 - Global investment in renewables grew only 2% to $279.8 bn in 2017: it has been essentially flat since 2011
• Thursday, April 5 - 12.1% of world electricity is now generated by electricity – up from 11% in 2016
• Thursday, April 5 - Solar was the biggest single sector for new global power capacity additions for the 2nd year in 2017
• Thursday, April 5 - For the first time, global solar capacity grew faster in 2017 than all fossil fuels and nuclear combined
• Wednesday, April 4 - Google owner Alphabet, biggest corporate renewables buyer, reaches 100% renewable power
• Wednesday, April 4 - “We believe that Google should not be in the business of war”: so say more than 3,000 Google employees
• Wednesday, April 4 - Facebook improperly shared data of 87m people with Cambridge Analytica, company now says
• Tuesday, April 3 - Portugal’s electricity consumption was met 104% by renewables in March, mostly wind and hydro
• Tuesday, April 3 - The corrupt hide billions in shell companies: US, UK Beneficial Ownership Registries could stop them
• Tuesday, April 3 - UK’s first horizontal well completed in Lancashire shale by Caudrilla, who now await clearance to frack
• Tuesday, April 3 - “Russia’s $55bn pipeline gamble on China’s demand for gas”: Financial Times
• Monday, April 2 - “The world doesn’t need a new Facebook, it needs a new internet” – Arjun Hassard
• Monday, April 2 - Underwater melting of Antarctic ice far greater than thought, ESA satellite altimetry study finds
• Sunday, April 1 - China’s Belt and Road grand plan: serious delays, ballooning debts, mounting sovereignty concerns
• Sunday, April 1 - “Wary shale investors warn against drilling at all costs”: Financial Times on the buildup of debt in US shale
• Sunday, April 1 - Analysis of developments will take the form of periodic blogs, presentations, and interviews
• Sunday, April 1 - 2018 Q1: A chronology in pictures & charts of developments in climate, energy, tech & the future of civilisation
• Thursday, March 1 - Video: History and future of the global energy transition – full 30 minute presentation at Making Solar Bankable
• Wednesday, February 28 - A story from the latest instalment of ‘The Test’ ….and why the serialisation now stops
• Monday, February 26 - The oil industry and the global energy transition: presentation to Big Oil shareholders
• Tuesday, February 20 - History and future of the global energy transition – 1 minute video summary of presentation
• Thursday, February 15 - Joining the dots: History and future of the global energy transition 2016 – 2017 in pictures and charts
• Tuesday, February 6 - The current crop of oil and gas company investments and acquisitions in clean energy: a quick Q & A
• Tuesday, January 23 - Lloyd’s divests from coal 25 years after first advised to. What financial damage has the delay entailed?
• Sunday, January 14 - My hopes for the great global energy transition, and thoughts on the UK state of play: Interview for Impact4All

2017 (20)

• Wednesday, November 22 - “Global civilisation to descend into ’hell on earth’ unless we choose a new paradigm”
• Tuesday, November 21 - Rogue US can’t derail Bonn agenda as leaders keep the faith: column for Recharge magazine
• Saturday, November 4 - On Solarcentury’s move this week: a strategic partnership to build and finance over a gigawatt of solar farms
• Tuesday, October 31 - The conundrum deepens – big solar deployment rises yet faster, small solar falls still further: chapter 4 of The Test
• Thursday, September 21 - Tracking the demise of the fossil fuel industries – Presentation to the Springtij sustainability festival
• Sunday, September 10 - A view under the bonnet of SolarAid’s operations – strengths and weaknesses: Chapter 3 of The Test.
• Friday, September 8 - Appropriate Civilization versus New Despotism – my paper for international business schools, in Chinese
• Wednesday, August 9 - Corruption, subsidies, and the mad math of kerosene on the front lines in Africa: Chapter 2 of The Test
• Tuesday, July 18 - My latest serialised free-download book ‘The Test’: Chapter 1 – from the Albert Hall to Kazakhstan
• Monday, June 5 - Trump’s attempt to pull the USA out of the Paris Agreement: a personal reaction from Solaraid  
• Tuesday, May 23 - The FT and BBC agreed yesterday: brilliant design means solar lighting makes even more sense
• Wednesday, May 10 - An opinion on the problem of Mexico’s shrinking oil supply and Trump’s unneighbourly wall
• Monday, April 24 - Appropriate Civilization versus New Despotism, month 3, 21st March – 20th April 2017
• Saturday, March 25 - Appropriate Civilization versus New Despotism, month 2, 20th February – 20th March 2017
• Monday, March 20 - How can renewables help to create a better civilization? Statement to the Transition Tech Festival, Berlin
• Friday, March 10 - The business case is clear: renewables companies must openly resist the new despotism
• Monday, February 20 - Appropriate Civilization versus New Despotism: State of Play one month into the Trump presidency
• Friday, January 20 - G20 climate risk report is a wake-up call for fossil-fuel investors: "I predict a snowball effect"
• Sunday, January 8 - Two competitions to accelerate the revolution: one from a corporation, one from a government
• Tuesday, January 3 - State of The Transition, December 2016: Evidence of a global energy transition has never been clearer

2016 (27)

• Sunday, December 4 - State of The Transition, November 2016: Steps forward continue to outnumber steps back, notwithstanding the Trump election. But.
• Monday, November 21 - State of The Transition post-Marrakech: Unity is strength as the "irreversible" climate train rolls towards Trumpism
• Monday, November 14 - Trump's win will slow climate action and renewables, but as the reactions at COP 22 show already, he will fail in his fossil promises
• Sunday, November 6 - "Something post-colonial": As Mrs May pitches UK plc in India, my eye witness account of Mr Cameron's equivalent trip. …And that was then.
• Friday, November 4 - State of The Transition, October 2016: As the Paris Agreement enters into force, momentum in the great energy system change continues to outpace setbacks
• Friday, October 28 - Spare a thought for energy CEOs in this tech-race world
• Tuesday, October 11 - The renewable energy and waste industries: 21st century confederates in changing the global economy
• Monday, October 3 - State of The Transition, September 2016: “Anyone who does not understand what is going on is not in the right place.”
• Sunday, September 11 - In the UK’s scramble to “keep the lights on”, the new government should listen to its favourite newspaper
• Wednesday, August 3 - State of The Transition, July 2016: Might the fossil fuel industries implode faster than the clean energy industries can grow to replace them?
• Friday, July 1 - State of The Transition, June 2016: A long list of advances, a short list of setbacks – including Brexit.
• Wednesday, June 8 - Summary and update of The Winning of The Carbon War, at the launch of the Dutch edition, Amsterdam
• Sunday, June 5 - State of The Transition, May 2016: Talk of twilight
• Friday, June 3 - Imagine being responsible for the balance sheet of the company driving the nuclear fiasco slowing deployment of green energy in the UK
• Tuesday, May 31 - The global energy transformation and innovation: the case of Solarcentury and Sunstation
• Wednesday, May 11 - Good news at Solarcentury and SolarAid
• Monday, May 9 - An open letter to solar companies: Beware alliance with the gas (and oil) industry
• Tuesday, May 3 - State of The Transition, April 2016: Unfolding like the plot of an epic novel
• Monday, April 25 - A view of the renewables revolution in numbers
• Tuesday, April 5 - Solar energy in Saudi Arabia: opportunity became inevitable
• Sunday, April 3 - State of The Transition, March: Falling global carbon emissions from energy, and much this month to encourage those who hope for more such
• Tuesday, March 1 - State of The Transition, February: “Most fossil fuel companies face a future in which they might not have the capital to expand even if they still want to."
• Tuesday, March 1 - Big Oil faces courtroom showdown
• Thursday, February 4 - Powering a modern economy in the UK with renewables. Doable? The Bottom Line on BBC Radio 4
• Wednesday, February 3 - State of The Transition, mid – late January: Oil oversupply, shale bankruptcies, gas leaks, and a whiff of securities fraud
• Tuesday, February 2 - State of The Transition, early – mid January: "I promise you …we will be celebrating"
• Tuesday, January 5 - On behalf of the planet, thanks to everyone who made Paris possible

2015 (91)

• Wednesday, December 16 - Osborne is sabotaging the green energy we need to hit Paris targets
• Monday, December 14 - Act de Triumph
• Sunday, December 13 - Renewable energy is the winner as world sets sights on decarbonisation
• Tuesday, December 8 - Follow the money as summit enters home straight at the Paris climate summit
• Tuesday, December 1 - COP21's doomsday questions and renewable answers
• Sunday, November 29 - The Paris Climate Summit begins. The world watches. And my Chronology of the Carbon War, charting the years running up to this unique event in human history, closes. But for one more entry.
• Friday, November 27 - Unilever pledges 100% renewables, most UK cities pledge zero carbon, non-OECD clean-energy investment exceeds OECD for first time, India opposes fossil fuel phase-out by 2100: Week 47, 2015
• Sunday, November 22 - Climate health warnings on fuel pumps, Alberta caps tar sands, Statoil pulls out of Arctic, OECD kills coal export subsidies, Enel bets hard on renewables, UK dashes for gas: Week 45, 2015
• Sunday, November 15 - Saudi Arabia becomes last G20 government to submit climate pledge, Pope's message is shifting US opinion on climate, terrorists strike in Paris: Week 45, 2015
• Tuesday, November 10 - Hopes rise for a global climate deal in Paris
• Sunday, November 8 - Obama rejects tar sands pipeline, Exxon under investigating for lying about climate risk, Exxon did lie says presidential hopeful, Peabody forced to disclose climate risk to investors: Week 44, 2015
• Tuesday, November 3 - Pre-ordering The Winning of The Carbon War means helping SolarAid
• Sunday, November 1 - “Paris climate deal to ignite a $90 trillion energy revolution”, “The world is ready for change,” “Fossil fuel companies risk plague of 'asbestos' lawsuits as tide turns on climate change.” : Week 43, 2015
• Sunday, October 25 - Draft climate treaty complete, HMG's climate advisors tell them wind and solar will be cheaper than gas by 2020, HMG signs off world's most expensive power plant as renewables slashed: Week 42, 2015
• Wednesday, October 21 - Mirror: George Osborne's nuclear deal with China is a 'major national scandal'
• Monday, October 19 - To slash and burn renewable investment for the sake of costly support for new nuclear plants is unwise
• Sunday, October 18 - US government blocks Arctic exploration, Congressmen call for federal enquiry on Exxon's climate change denial, 10 oil companies pledge to support Paris – not Exxon: Week 41, 2015.
• Sunday, October 11 - Obama tweets about solar and wind's plunging costs, GE moves on clean energy, UK solar job losses top 1,000, Citi cuts coal funding, Glencore calls for Paris treaty to be pro-coal: Week 40, 2015
• Tuesday, October 6 - Guardian: "Business should be backing renewables – fossil fuels don't make economic sense"
• Monday, October 5 - Recharge: "Carbon warriors prepare to take the battle to Paris summit"
• Sunday, October 4 - BoE governor warns of stranded assets, Shell quits Arctic exploration, US shale oil drillers battle insolvency, UK renewables face "anarchy", Glencore share price collapses: Week 39, 2015
• Wednesday, September 30 - “High chance of a tipping point in retreat from fossil fuels soon”
• Tuesday, September 29 - "They're trying to defend 20th century technologies and business models that are ruinous for the planetary future."
• Sunday, September 27 - Exxon confirmed climate change in 1982, Pope woos US on climate, China announces cap-and-trade plan during US visit, World leaders agree 17 Sustainable Development Goals: Week 38, 2015
• Sunday, September 20 - Massive VW emissions fraud, BHP warns coal is losing as Abbott goes, shale drillers face financial crisis, 2015 global heat record, 48 of top global 100 companies still oppose climate action: Week 37, 2015
• Sunday, September 13 - Hollande warns Paris failure would mean millions of refugees, cheap oil slams brakes on US shale oil production, UK backs bid in EU to kill fracking controls, Shell quits climate leaders group: Week 36, 2015
• Monday, September 7 - Virgin Unite – The winning of the carbon war: part five
• Sunday, September 6 - “Coal is fast becoming the telegraph to renewable energy’s Internet”, say activists as stock tank hits 98% since 2011. No, says Minerals Council of Australia ad campaign – "coal is amazing": Week 35, 2015
• Thursday, September 3 - Recharge: “President and Pope respond to the climate alarm clock.”
• Sunday, August 30 - World's biggest coal port divests, oil industry woes leave Wall Street adrift, tanking China trigger global share rout, UK government intends to cut solar feed-in tariff 87% in January: Week 34, 2015
• Sunday, August 23 - Methane leaks far exceed estimates, US oil < $30, Islamic leaders join Pope in calling for carbon-fuel phaseout, solar cheaper than gas in Colorado, UK opens 1,000 sq miles to frackers: Week 33, 2015
• Sunday, August 16 - Largest ever US wildfire rages, coal protestors say "here and no further", Glencore's investors say "stop digging", oil glut pumps on, solar stocks suffer, Shell ready to drill in the Arctic: Week 32, 2015
• Sunday, August 9 - Global glacier retreat accelerates, value of oil companies down >$1 trillion, Obama backs off shale gas in climate plan, UK now prepared to over-ride councils and push through fracking: Week 31, 2015
• Tuesday, August 4 - Recharge: "The fossil-fuel endgame is officially upon us."
• Tuesday, August 4 - Independent: "US climate change initiative: President Barack Obama's legacy will be written in history"
• Sunday, August 2 - Global warming now >1˚C, Obama hikes power-sector carbon cuts, World Bank rejects coal industry notion that coal can cure poverty, US offshore wind puts its first steel in the water: Week 30, 2015
• Sunday, July 26 - Paris climate deal takes shape, France sets example with sweeping energy bill, oil drill ships burn cash parked at sea, UK government reneges on commitments to renewables investors: Week 29, 2015
• Sunday, July 19 - Ocean warming now unstoppable for centuries, wildfire risk soaring, Church of England votes for divestment, Shell hopes to drill in Arctic without safety kit: Week 28, 2015
• Sunday, July 12 - Huffington Post: Five ways to stop the threat to global health from climate change
• Sunday, July 12 - UK ends zero carbon homes and slaps retrospective cuts on renewables, UK shale-bonanza advocate "steps down", Pope says unbridled capitalism fuels climate change: Week 27, 2015
• Saturday, July 11 - "Most of us wouldn't dream of giving an Oxford degree back".
• Monday, July 6 - Optimism and Intrigue: An Insider's View of the 'Carbon War'
• Monday, July 6 - Virgin Unite – The Winning of the Carbon War Part 5
• Sunday, July 5 - Episcopal Church votes to divest, Prince Charles divests, crucial UK fracking licence rejected, Renault may leave Formula 1 for Formula E, climate negotiations moving at “snails pace”: Week 26, 2015
• Sunday, June 28 - Medics say climate change threatens 50 years of advances, Dutch court forces climate action on government, American Petroleum Institute launches regulation rollback campaign: Week 25, 2015
• Wednesday, June 24 - "We are in danger of winning. But…."
• Sunday, June 21 - Pope calls for rich to pay their debts on climate, US bishops agree with him, US Republican candidates disagree with him, US shale industry faces mass bankruptcy in face of debt mountain: Week 24, 2015
• Tuesday, June 16 - IEEE PVSC presentation: Solar PV’s pivotal role in the great global energy
• Sunday, June 14 - G7 agrees historic accord on fossil-fuel phase out this century, BP talks of fossil-fuel watershed, huge increase in public perception that fossil-fuel investments are risky: Week 23, 2015
• Monday, June 8 - The Day of The Atmosphere: eyewitness account of the last night of the Kyoto Climate Summit. How will Paris compare?
• Sunday, June 7 - Carbon Tracker says utilities are in coal 'death spiral', coal groups defiant, former Shell Chairman says fossil-fuel divestment is 'rational', IKEA pledges €1bn renewables investment by 2020: Week 22, 2015.
• Tuesday, June 2 - "Global ‘Apollo’ push for renewables and storage troubled by ‘out of date’ thinking"
• Monday, June 1 - Virgin Unite – The Winning of the Carbon War Part 4
• Sunday, May 31 - Norway tells oil fund to quit coal, EU oil giants ask for direct climate negotiations with governments, ExxonMobil CEO cries "fake" and mocks renewables, gas bridge unlikely to work: Week 21, 2015
• Saturday, May 23 - Saudi sees fossil-fuel phaseout, GdF Suez rebrands and goes renewable, Merkel & Hollande pledge decarbonisation, Shell says carbon-bubble campaigners "ignore reality": Week 21, 2015
• Monday, May 18 - BBC World Service, World Business Report: Climate week in Paris / fracking
• Sunday, May 17 - Canada reneges on climate commitments, Shell heads for Arctic in desperation, Pope says environmental sinners will face God's judgment, Statoil sets up renewables division: Week 20, 2015.
• Tuesday, May 12 - Jeremy Leggett accepts 2015 Gothenburg Award on behalf of Solarcentury, SolarAid, SunnyMoney and Carbon Tracker teams
• Monday, May 11 - 5% of profits from this solar company have grown the biggest solar lighting retailer in Africa, reaching 10m people with 1.7m lights.
• Sunday, May 10 - Monthly CO2 reaches 400ppm, $800m Tesla battery orders in Week 1, BoA says coal increasingly risky, fracking chemicals found in US drinking water: Week 19, 2015
• Monday, May 4 - Virgin Unite – The winning of the Carbon War Part 3
• Sunday, May 3 - Tesla announces battery for homes & industry, Church of England divests from coal & tar sands, Glencore says no chance of stranding, HSBC advises clients against fossil fuel investment: Week 18, 2015
• Sunday, April 26 - HSBC warns clients against fossil fuel investment, 1st London university divests, Prince Charles divests, US pro-carbon-fuel Right seeks to convert Pope: Week 17, 2015.
• Sunday, April 19 - Fossil fuels losing to renewables, CEOs want climate action, German solar sets new record, shale oil production falls in Bakken, Texas to ban bans on fracking: Week 16, 2015
• Sunday, April 12 - Funds perform better without fossil fuels, 100% renewables would save half a trillion a year, Saudi Arabia pumps record oil, hype of UK shale oil goes uncontested: Week 15, 2015.
• Thursday, April 9 - PV Tech: On the changing global tide in energy.
• Monday, April 6 - Virgin Unite – The winning of the carbon war Part 2
• Sunday, April 5 - Rig count in "financialised" US oil industry down >50%, fracking's environmental toll ever clearer in daily breaches, Vattenfall restructures around wind, Duke goes solar in Florida: Week 14, 2015
• Wednesday, April 1 - BBC World Service Newsday: a view on national GHG commitments
• Wednesday, April 1 - Recharge – Electric vehicles, solar and storage – making fossils history
• Sunday, March 29 - Coal plants shutting down around world – incl. all 4 of Beijing’s big plants, China seeks get-out from tar sands, climate denial is immoral says US church leader as divestment pressure grows: Week 13, 2015
• Sunday, March 22 - Record oil debt, bond bubble fears, solar survives eclipse, Obama unveils first federal fracking legislation and faces pushback on coal, don't mention climate if you work for state of Florida: Week 12, 2015
• Monday, March 16 - Guardian – Why I pledged to give my degree back if Oxford voted against fossil fuel divestment
• Sunday, March 15 - Guardian launches divestment campaign, UN backs divestment, Pam devastates Vanuatu, global emissions flatten: Week 11, 2015
• Tuesday, March 10 - PVTech – Open letter to solar industry leaders
• Sunday, March 8 - EU pledges 40% cuts by 2030, China to fight air pollution with solar, Oslo divests, UAE bank says investment will flood to renewables: Week 10, 2015
• Wednesday, March 4 - Business Daily, BBC World Service
• Tuesday, March 3 - Recharge – The triple whammy giving oil executives sleepless nights
• Monday, March 2 - LSE lecture
• Monday, March 2 - Virgin Unite – The winning of the carbon war
• Monday, March 2 - LSE lecture – The winning of the Carbon War
• Sunday, March 1 - Obama vetoes tar sands pipeline, first Paris commitment in, China's coal bubble bursting, Google's biggest solar bet yet, another UK fracking setback: Week 9, 2015
• Sunday, March 1 - London School of Economics, March 1st, 2015
• Sunday, February 22 - Apple intends EV manufacture by 2020, world's biggest PR agency quits American Petroleum Institute, traders make fortunes in oil rout, thousands of mosques go solar: Week 8, 2015
• Sunday, February 15 - Lowest oil & gas discovery in 20 yrs, US shale has been masking crude production fall in rest of world, global Divestment Day, big Apple solar play, Shell boss calls critics "naive": Week 7, 2015
• Sunday, February 8 - Business leaders support zero net carbon by 2050, more Norway oil-fund coal divestment, medics advocate divestment on ethical grounds, Statoil talks renewables, US rig count now down 25%: Week 6, 2015
• Sunday, February 1 - New record US rig-count fall, more capex cancellations, Petrobras chaos, OPEC predicts bounce back to $200 oil, UN targets February for draft climate treaty: Week 5, 2014
• Sunday, January 25 - US & EU push on climate, $170 bn of oil and gas capex being cut, fastest-ever rig count fall in US shale, all-party setback for UK shale, oil price sure to bounce back, bosses say: Week 4, 2015
• Friday, January 16 - 2014 hottest year ever, another major coal divestment, oil and gas capex cancellations spread, cheapest solar in world in Dubai, solar grid parity almost everywhere by 2017; US utilities fear "death spiral": Week 3, 2015
• Sunday, January 11 - Brent falls
• Sunday, January 4 - Overwhelming US support for wind and solar; Russia hits post-Soviet oil-production record; US methane leakage from shale visible from space: Week 1, 2015

2014 (782)

• Wednesday, December 31 - Oil rout continues, 2 in 3 UK quoted oil and gas companies face bankruptcy, Russian economy in trouble, Petrobras targets $200bn to develop pre-salt fields, Saudi Arabia has to borrow: Weeks 51 &52, 2014:
• Sunday, December 21 - Brent falls below $60, NY state bans fracking, shale drillers threaten global financial stability as crisis spreads to banks, Shell recognises a global energy transition is underway: Week 50, 2014
• Sunday, December 14 - DECC lines up with the Bank of England on the carbon bubble as the oil industry tries to rubbish it, the Pope becomes a climate campaigner, Lima climate summit pulls progress from the jaws of defeat: Week 49, 2014
• Sunday, December 7 - E.ON becomes the first big energy company to break ranks with a U-turn on energy transition, trouble of all sorts for shale, Lima climate summit gears up in face of the hottest year ever, BP & Shell in disfavour with the Church, viable future for oil and gas giants questioned in FT: Week 48, 2014
• Monday, December 1 - Change of format for this site
• Monday, December 1 - City of London, December 1st 2014
• Sunday, November 30 - Russia to abandon South Stream pipeline.
• Sunday, November 30 - Lima climate talks best chance for a generation, say upbeat diplomats.
• Sunday, November 30 - BoE to examine risks carbon-fuel companies pose to financial stability.
• Friday, November 28 - Saudi Arabia "Takes the Gloves Off": moment of truth arrives for US shale.
• Friday, November 28 - "OPEC Faces Off Against Shale: Who Blinks as Price Slides Toward $70?"
• Friday, November 28 - UK government chief scientist compares fracking risk to thalidomide.
• Friday, November 28 - UK regulator introduces tough controls aiming to cut energy bills.
• Friday, November 28 - "Market rout as oil slide rocks energy groups": FT.
• Thursday, November 27 - UN climate change deal must have legally binding targets, says EU.
• Wednesday, November 26 - Shareholders tell Exxon: Oil price, climate should mean $56B in dividends.
• Wednesday, November 26 - Banks begin to face heavy losses as oil price falls.
• Wednesday, November 26 - 61 US shale drillers owing $199 bn should fear lessons of 1986.
• Tuesday, November 25 - Obama climate change envoy: fossil fuels will have to stay in the ground.
• Monday, November 24 - One of three UK emergency power plants fails output test.
• Sunday, November 23 - Norway’s largest pension fund vows to drop coal mine holdings.
• Sunday, November 23 - "Shale jubilation fades as oil price falls undercut model": FT.
• Sunday, November 23 - UK oil and gas industry pleads for Treasury help with low oil price.
• Sunday, November 23 - CCS will struggle to be viable, lead practitioner says.
• Saturday, November 22 - BGS admits ignorance of UK fracking impact absent monitoring.
• Friday, November 21 - Shale narrative fizzles in China as clean energy and imports lead the way.
• Friday, November 21 - India now seeks 100GW of PV by 2022.
• Friday, November 21 - China climate pledge would require 50,000 solar farms.
• Friday, November 21 - "US oil producers can’t kick drilling habit."
• Thursday, November 20 - Ineos to invest £640m in UK shale gas exploration.
• Thursday, November 20 - Countries just short of $10bn target for Green Climate Fund.
• Wednesday, November 19 - Areva financial crisis means Hinckley Point may never happen.
• Wednesday, November 19 - Keystone XL proposal fails in current US Senate by one vote.
• Wednesday, November 19 - "Oil industry risks trillions of 'stranded assets' on US-China climate deal."
• Tuesday, November 18 - ‘Solar century’ beckons as costs continue to fall – UK energy secretary.
• Tuesday, November 18 - Why belief in looming US oil "independence" is based on myth.
• Monday, November 17 - Top American PR urges oil client to target opponents personal lives.
• Saturday, November 15 - Barack Obama tells G20 a global climate change deal is possible and vital.
• Friday, November 14 - "Oil price slump to trigger new US debt default crisis as Opec waits."
• Friday, November 14 - UK’s lithium-titanate battery en route to industrial-scale energy storage?
• Friday, November 14 - Fracking boom means soaring demand for sand – and clouds of dust.
• Friday, November 14 - House of Representatives passes bill approving Keystone XL oil pipeline.
• Friday, November 14 - IEA warns oil-price "rout" will deepen, pressure increase on OPEC, Russia.
• Thursday, November 13 - Ten years of watching unrealistic scenarios in IEA World Energy Outlooks.
• Thursday, November 13 - Chinese media welcomes climate deal with US.
• Thursday, November 13 - Coal isn’t the way out of energy poverty: Carbon Tracker report.
• Thursday, November 13 - China targets 8 GW of rooftop solar this year.
• Thursday, November 13 - Breathing space from non-OPEC oil output is "illusory".
• Thursday, November 13 - Fracking "no silver bullet", say EU science academies.
• Thursday, November 13 - Ten years of watching unrealistic scenarios in IEA World Energy Outlooks.
• Wednesday, November 12 - Republicans vow to thwart US-China climate deal.
• Wednesday, November 12 - IEA: US shale boom masks threat to world oil supply.
• Wednesday, November 12 - Ministers are hyping UK shale, says UK Energy Research Centre.
• Tuesday, November 11 - Rich countries subsidise fossil fuels by $88bn a year.
• Tuesday, November 11 - China & U.S. agree to limit greenhouse gases after secret negotiations.
• Monday, November 10 - Falling oil price threatens junk energy bonds
• Monday, November 10 - "Watershed moment" for bank regulation: BoE.
• Monday, November 10 - The world's largest coal mine, in Wyoming, barrels on.
• Monday, November 10 - UK government intends to create a shale sovereign wealth fund.
• Saturday, November 8 - BMW "likely to phase out internal combustion engines over next 10 years."
• Saturday, November 8 - "Shale drillers idle rigs from Texas to Utah amid oil rout."
• Friday, November 7 - UK solar PV companies lose case against government.
• Friday, November 7 - How Chevron uses black arts PR to whitewash its excesses.
• Friday, November 7 - Poland rejects IPCC target of zero emissions by 2100.
• Thursday, November 6 - India plans $100bn of renewables investment by 2020.
• Thursday, November 6 - First research shows climate change threatens pollination.
• Thursday, November 6 - Opec weakness at low oil price means US shale drillers "might win".
• Wednesday, November 5 - As oil plunges…why it might be 'game over' for the fracking boom.
• Wednesday, November 5 - EOG is the only shale driller expected to generate cash this year and next.
• Wednesday, November 5 - "Fracking's mythology is single biggest threat to the solar revolution."
• Wednesday, November 5 - Texas oil town makes history as residents vote no to fracking.
• Wednesday, November 5 - US midterm election increases Keystone XL pressure on Obama.
• Wednesday, November 5 - Storage will soon replace simple cycle combustion turbine peaker plants.
• Tuesday, November 4 - "Why two crucial pages were left out of the latest U.N. climate report."
• Tuesday, November 4 - 90% of undeveloped tar sands barrels at risk from eroding oil price.
• Monday, November 3 - "One Trillion Tonnes and $5 Trillion: Thoughts on IPCC Synthesis Report."
• Monday, November 3 - CO2 budget 1.1 tn tons, & fossil-fuel subsidies exceed reductions spend.
• Monday, November 3 - RBS to advise UK police on financial crime.
• Sunday, November 2 - IPCC: cut emissions rapidly or face "severe….irreversible" impacts.
• Friday, October 31 - The Amazon tribespeople who beat Chevron in court. But….
• Friday, October 31 - IPCC 1990 – 2014: a quarter century of The Carbon War.
• Friday, October 31 - US study finds dangerous airborne pollution at fracking sites.
• Friday, October 31 - Ozone hole remains size of North America, Nasa data shows.
• Thursday, October 30 - Soho, London, October 30th, 2014
• Thursday, October 30 - Storage not needed until renewables are 60% of German power: Agora.
• Thursday, October 30 - Russia, Ukraine, EU agree new gas supply deal.
• Thursday, October 30 - Lobbyists advice to oil and gas: play "ugly" if you want to keep drilling.
• Wednesday, October 29 - US Federal Reserve to end quantitative easing programme.
• Wednesday, October 29 - Globalised financial system is an ‘incendiary’ risk to stability: BoE.
• Wednesday, October 29 - Opec says 50% of US shale oil production is at risk at $85.
• Wednesday, October 29 - Park Lane Intercontinental, London, October 29th, 2014
• Tuesday, October 28 - Bank of England warns that City misconduct is undermining public trust.
• Tuesday, October 28 - Shell asks US for 5 more years permission to drill Arctic Alaska.
• Tuesday, October 28 - Swiss group Alevo announces $1 bn investment in battery manufacturing.
• Tuesday, October 28 - Shale begins to feature as a toxic issue for US voters.
• Monday, October 27 - BHP to sell one of its US shale gas assets.
• Monday, October 27 - Doubt in U.S. Government forecasts for a lasting tight oil & shale gas boom.
• Monday, October 27 - Keystone foes energized as price pressures allure of tar sands.
• Sunday, October 26 - Green billionaire combats Kochs with US mid-term funding.
• Saturday, October 25 - Parliament Square, London, October 24th and 25th, 2014
• Friday, October 24 - "15 Big Oil sell signals that warn of a 50% stock crash."
• Friday, October 24 - EU leaders agree to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030.
• Friday, October 24 - Eastern Europe contemplates prospect of winter without gas.
• Thursday, October 23 - Climate and clean energy now in top 3 US electoral ad issues.
• Thursday, October 23 - Norway's Arctic oil ambitions threatened by oil price-slump.
• Thursday, October 23 - Gas boss calls for "reconciliation" between gas and renewables industries.
• Thursday, October 23 - "Shale boom’s allure to Wall Street tested by bear market."
• Wednesday, October 22 - Oil producers cramming wells in risky push to extend shale boom.
• Wednesday, October 22 - US shale drillers are using benzine in fracking liquids.
• Wednesday, October 22 - Solar PV reduces costs of running buildings & can increase value.
• Wednesday, October 22 - New Yorkers support fracking moratorium & clean energy: poll.
• Tuesday, October 21 - $80 oil muffles forecasts for U.S. shale boom.
• Monday, October 20 - Bernstein: a third of U.S. shale oil production uneconomic at $80.
• Monday, October 20 - AP2 to divest from 20 fossil-fuel companies at risk of stranding.
• Monday, October 20 - Bankers have paid themselves far more than shareholders since crisis.
• Saturday, October 18 - Fossil fuel divestment: climate activists take aim at Australia's banks.
• Friday, October 17 - Pacific Islanders blockade Australian coal port to protest rising sea levels.
• Friday, October 17 - Advanced biofuels company warns oil lobbying may smother industry.
• Friday, October 17 - US eyes mix of legally-binding & handshake deals in global climate talks.
• Friday, October 17 - Arctic Ice loss sends Alaskan temperatures soaring.
• Thursday, October 16 - Chesapeake sells shale gasfields for $5.38bn
• Thursday, October 16 - Russian gas shutdown would not cause blackouts, says EC.
• Thursday, October 16 - India announces 15GW of new new solar in next 5 years.
• Thursday, October 16 - Low oil prices: recession in Russia, revolt in Venezuela?
• Thursday, October 16 - Putin strengthening China-Russia ties for renewable energy development.
• Thursday, October 16 - "Has Saudi Arabia lost control of the oil market?"
• Thursday, October 16 - Slowdown and Ebola fears push down stock markets and price of oil.
• Wednesday, October 15 - First US public offering of solar bonds: crowdfunding at the next level?
• Wednesday, October 15 - Germany's clean energy costs decline on domestic bills for the first time.
• Wednesday, October 15 - Opec tests US shale oil production with low prices.
• Wednesday, October 15 - Fracking boom will not tackle global warming, analysis warns.
• Wednesday, October 15 - Fracking company appeals against UK council planning rejection.
• Wednesday, October 15 - French government ousts pro-nuclear boss of EDF.
• Wednesday, October 15 - "Welcome to the energy transition": Times special report.
• Tuesday, October 14 - Giant battery unit aims at renewable-power storage holy grail.
• Tuesday, October 14 - Fossil fuel companies found paying lip-service to climate risks.
• Tuesday, October 14 - Mining companies lobby G20 leaders to back coal as future of energy.
• Tuesday, October 14 - Investors desert Desertec plan for huge solar farms in desert.
• Tuesday, October 14 - UK fracking companies can use "any substance" under homes.
• Tuesday, October 14 - IEA cuts oil demand forecast.
• Tuesday, October 14 - "Falling oil price raises questions on viability of shale": FT.
• Tuesday, October 14 - Moscow, October 14th, 2014
• Tuesday, October 14 - Europe plots to escape high-priced Russian gas.
• Monday, October 13 - China targets 100 GW PV by 2020 and no more state support.
• Monday, October 13 - Mark Carney: most fossil fuel reserves can't be burned.
• Monday, October 13 - Reuters: "Privately, Saudis tell oil market- get used to lower prices."
• Monday, October 13 - EU subsidies: for every € going to solar, 0.67 goes to coal.
• Monday, October 13 - Australian government bullies ANU after divestment decision.
• Monday, October 13 - Exxon accuses divestment movement of fuelling global poverty.
• Sunday, October 12 - Playing Chamberlain as next the financial crisis looms.
• Sunday, October 12 - Carney on carbon-bubble risk: "vast majority of reserves are unburnable".
• Sunday, October 12 - UK renewables companies consider Hinkley EC legal challenge.
• Saturday, October 11 - "The price of oil has been tumbling. The cost of finding it has not."
• Friday, October 10 - "Is the shale boom built on a sea of lies?"
• Friday, October 10 - "Here's why shale oil stocks are tanking."
• Friday, October 10 - Fracking setbacks dim Polish hopes for less Russian gas.
• Friday, October 10 - France to cut nuclear's share of power market to 50% by 2025.
• Friday, October 10 - Pollution levels hit 20 times safe limit in northern China.
• Friday, October 10 - Oil sinks to $88, share prices plunge.
• Thursday, October 9 - Gillian Tett, prescient heroine of the MBS bubble, sees no shale bubble.
• Thursday, October 9 - 66 out of 73 US shale drillers report higher reserves to public than to SEC.
• Thursday, October 9 - Japan's utilities turn on solar, threatening industry's prospects.
• Thursday, October 9 - Lego cans Shell partnership following Greenpeace campaign.
• Wednesday, October 8 - Drilling rig numbers hit in a new record in the US as oil search spreads.
• Wednesday, October 8 - "Shale boom tested as sub-$90 oil threatens U.S. drillers."
• Wednesday, October 8 - Glasgow becomes first university in Europe to divest from fossil fuels.
• Wednesday, October 8 - EU approves Hinkley Point nuclear power station, now >£24bn to build.
• Tuesday, October 7 - Record fine sought for EQT fracking impoundment with 200 holes.
• Tuesday, October 7 - Solar and wind cost may fall to level for coal by 2020s, study says.
• Tuesday, October 7 - Big Australian pension fund offloads coal investments.
• Monday, October 6 - Biggest companies sit on growing cash pile, but not oil & gas and utilities.
• Sunday, October 5 - Austrian lithium projects seeks IPO as drive for EVs grows.
• Thursday, October 2 - Brent oil retreats to 28-month low.
• Thursday, October 2 - Environmentalists' appeal to foundations on climate: the full case.
• Thursday, October 2 - Cost "blow-outs" raise questions about Australia's LNG export drive.
• Thursday, October 2 - Renewables spending on the increase after two years of decline – except EU.
• Wednesday, October 1 - The US shale production surge: oil prices still likely to stay high.
• Wednesday, October 1 - Big Six energy giants 'will lose a quarter of their customers' by 2020.
• Wednesday, October 1 - First commercial-scale CCS plant finally operational – & dependent on oil.
• Wednesday, October 1 - How shills for the oil & gas industry bully people to invest in fracking.
• Tuesday, September 30 - Solar market poised for growth in India with solar champion as PM.
• Tuesday, September 30 - Exxon releases report on fracking impacts, under shareholder pressure.
• Tuesday, September 30 - UBS: Divestment will catalyse "significant, structural" change in energy.
• Monday, September 29 - Renewable energy curb by Japanese utilities could force a nuclear restart.
• Monday, September 29 - Rising Marcellus shale output disrupts US gas prices.
• Monday, September 29 - US soon to be no. 1 liquid petroleum producer (but still 3rd in crude).
• Monday, September 29 - UK government suppresses data on the size of growing green industries.
• Monday, September 29 - Latest US shale failure wipes out almost all Sumitomo’s earnings.
• Monday, September 29 - British firm Ineos accused of ‘bribes and bulldozers’ approach to fracking.
• Monday, September 29 - Solar power world's top electricity source by 2050, at 27% of mix: IEA.
• Monday, September 29 - Record world debt could trigger new financial crisis, Geneva report warns.
• Saturday, September 27 - Rosneft and ExxonMobil find oil with their $700m Arctic well.
• Friday, September 26 - Banks could face record fines totalling £1.8bn over currency rigging.
• Friday, September 26 - Fracking trespass law changes move forward despite huge public opposition.
• Friday, September 26 - Big oil groups blame climate change on coal at UN summit.
• Friday, September 26 - New York, 21-26 September 21st – 26th, 2014
• Thursday, September 25 - The UN climate summit shifts the dial on new green investment.
• Thursday, September 25 - "Coal: Before the Flood."
• Wednesday, September 24 - "Spooked" coal industry counter attacks divestment campaign.
• Wednesday, September 24 - Times "Fracking 'greener than solar panels'" story refuted by author quoted.
• Wednesday, September 24 - "How a single multinational corporation could light up the world."
• Wednesday, September 24 - Views differ on efficacy of UN climate summit.
• Tuesday, September 23 - "Clean growth is a safe bet in the climate casino."
• Tuesday, September 23 - SolarAid's CGI commitment: eradicate kerosene lamp from Africa by 2020.
• Tuesday, September 23 - Shale gas part of climate solution UK PM says, not renewables targets.
• Tuesday, September 23 - More than a hundred climate activists arrested on Wall Street.
• Monday, September 22 - Leading companies pledge to transition to 100% renewables.
• Monday, September 22 - Google to cut ties with rightwing lobby group over climate change 'lies'.
• Monday, September 22 - “Heat rises for fossil fuel industry as climate talks gather pace”: FT.
• Monday, September 22 - Organisations controlling £30bn are divesting from fossil fuels.
• Monday, September 22 - "Political will is only barrier to 100% renewables."
• Monday, September 22 - Officials clear British EDF nuclear project, immediately face legal challenge.
• Sunday, September 21 - Citizens stage biggest-ever climate demonstration, worldwide.
• Sunday, September 21 - "Rockefellers, heirs to an oil fortune, will divest charity of fossil fuels."
• Saturday, September 20 - Climate warning to world leaders: stick to 2C limit or face 'mayhem'.
• Friday, September 19 - Exxon winds down Russian Arctic drilling campaign as sanctions bite.
• Friday, September 19 - “Shale fracking is a 'ponzi scheme', '….equivalent of the dot.com crash'.”
• Friday, September 19 - "Coal gloom coming from activists, not genuine analysts: miners."
• Friday, September 19 - "Toil for oil spells danger for majors."
• Thursday, September 18 - "US solar and wind start to outshine gas": FT.
• Thursday, September 18 - Study finds gas could be worse than coal in climate-policy role.
• Thursday, September 18 - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 18th, 2014
• Tuesday, September 16 - MSCI launches family of low carbon indexes, first to address reserves.
• Tuesday, September 16 - New Climate Economy report says fighting climate change can be low cost.
• Monday, September 15 - Groundwater contamination: leaks from faulty fracked wells to blame.
• Monday, September 15 - Leading philanthropic foundations can play vital role in UN climate talks.
• Monday, September 15 - Environmentalists call on foundations for more climate funding.
• Monday, September 15 - Somewhere in London, September 15th, 2014
• Saturday, September 13 - "Sun and wind alter global landscape, leaving utilities behind."
• Thursday, September 11 - ExxonMobil underestimates climate risks: Carbon Tracker.
• Wednesday, September 10 - "How Hillary Clinton's State Department sold fracking to the world."
• Wednesday, September 10 - UN's Green Climate Fund lowers cash target to $10bn.
• Monday, September 8 - "Shell's Jekyll and Hyde approach to climate change."
• Monday, September 8 - "Drillers piling up more debt than oil hunting fortunes in shale."
• Monday, September 8 - "At least three oil and gas majors have ordered full strategic reviews."
• Sunday, September 7 - Fuels rush in as energy blackout threat prompts action from National Grid.
• Friday, September 5 - Swedish parties pledge to ban Vattenfall’s German coal mine plans.
• Friday, September 5 - Court rules BP guilty of gross negligence and wilful misconduct.
• Wednesday, September 3 - “Coal must be made more vivid in climate change accounting.”
• Wednesday, September 3 - Pro-fracking newspaper ad banned by UK Advertising Standards Authority.
• Wednesday, September 3 - Nova Scotia bans fracking.
• Tuesday, September 2 - Water shortages pose larger than expected threat to shale gas.
• Monday, September 1 - "Fossil fuels are no match for the climate elephant."
• Friday, August 29 - Solar industry set for record shipments of 52 GW in 2014.
• Friday, August 29 - Aramco CEO puts oil majors’ unsustainable capex in perspective.
• Friday, August 29 - Divesting from fossil fuels: “last man out loses”.
• Thursday, August 28 - Renewable energy grows at fastest ever rate.
• Thursday, August 28 - "This approach to climate change doesn't involve Obama or the the Senate."
• Wednesday, August 27 - UBS urges investors to join solar revolution.
• Wednesday, August 27 - Shale oil and gas producers’ finances set for turnaround next year, they say.
• Tuesday, August 26 - "Saudi Aramco to invest $400bn to keep oil production steady."
• Monday, August 25 - Bill Gates: "the poor can't afford today's expensive clean energy solutions."
• Sunday, August 24 - South Stream gas project a big casualty of EU-Russia Ukraine standoff.
• Saturday, August 23 - The "climate swerve": a new social movement around global warming.
• Friday, August 22 - Cost-cutting fever in tar sands as economics called into question.
• Friday, August 22 - "UK oil output threatened by platforms running out of juice."
• Thursday, August 21 - Deep Atlantic storing huge amounts of global-warming heat.
• Thursday, August 21 - Reasons for optimism about prospects for the Paris climate summit.
• Wednesday, August 20 - Oil industry on borrowed time as switch to solar and gas accelerates.
• Monday, August 18 - UK energy dependence – five hidden costs expose truth about fracking.
• Monday, August 18 - Solar boom threatens first global solar panel shortage since 2006.
• Monday, August 18 - UK anti-fracking group stages day of protests.
• Friday, August 15 - Citigroup: solar industry to outperform fossil fuels in long term.
• Friday, August 15 - Oil majors gambling US$91bn on 20 high-risk projects.
• Friday, August 15 - Green energy co-ops blocked by UK government regulator.
• Thursday, August 14 - US utility buys solar home energy products company
• Thursday, August 14 - Rosneft asks Moscow for $42bn as western sanctions bite.
• Tuesday, August 12 - UK installed solar capacity now exceeds 5GW.
• Tuesday, August 12 - Support for UK fracking drops to 24%, DECC survey finds.
• Tuesday, August 12 - Oil companies fracking into drinking water sources, new research shows.
• Tuesday, August 12 - US state breaks ground on a "perfect" solar & storage microgrid.
• Monday, August 11 - Keystone XL carbon emissions 'would be 4x higher than US thought'.
• Monday, August 11 - UK government ridiculed for heavily censoring fracking report.
• Monday, August 11 - EDF shuts nuclear reactors in northern England due to faults.
• Monday, August 11 - Oil & gas company debt soars to danger levels to cover shortfalls in cash.
• Sunday, August 10 - UK fracking company wins permission to reinject waste water.
• Friday, August 8 - RBS winds down rogue SME restructuring profit centre.
• Friday, August 8 - Norway’s oil fund to reveal voting intentions.
• Friday, August 8 - Exxon begins drilling in Russian Arctic immune to sanctions.
• Thursday, August 7 - SolarCity, now worth $7bn, prepares to add solar loans to leases.
• Thursday, August 7 - Edelman formally declares it will not accept climate denial campaigns.
• Thursday, August 7 - China, finding exploration "challenging", halves its shale gas target.
• Thursday, August 7 - Corporatisation of US green energy: a double-edged sword worth billions.
• Thursday, August 7 - Oil price up as Sunni militants close in on Kurdish territory.
• Wednesday, August 6 - “Why Home Depot could soon be in charge of the power industry.”
• Wednesday, August 6 - SunPower offers solar home power package to EV customers.
• Wednesday, August 6 - Collective energy switching auction in UK saves £232 per household.
• Tuesday, August 5 - Big 6 face criminal prosecution if suspected of price fixing.
• Tuesday, August 5 - Areva closes its solar business.
• Tuesday, August 5 - The signs of energy system-change are coming think and fast now.
• Monday, August 4 - EIA: Oil & gas cos take on debt, sell assets to boost cash flow.
• Monday, August 4 - Big companies using thermal storage to meet carbon rules.
• Monday, August 4 - World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers.
• Monday, August 4 - Sharp cuts solar module business, shifts focus to energy storage systems.
• Monday, August 4 - Coal to be “forbidden" from Beijing by 2020.
• Sunday, August 3 - “Rise of renewables adds to need for gas power”: FT.
• Sunday, August 3 - Solar firms to sue UK government over subsidy cuts once again.
• Thursday, July 31 - Blow to UK renewables as plan for Europe's largest windfarm is scrapped.
• Thursday, July 31 - Renewables hit 15% UK market share in 2013 (Germany 28% in H1 2014).
• Thursday, July 31 - EU underplays financial benefits of a 40% 2030 target for energy efficiency.
• Thursday, July 31 - BP on Rosneft risk: 'We work in countries with ups and downs'.
• Wednesday, July 30 - EU: Poland is breaking law on assessing environmental impact of fracking.
• Wednesday, July 30 - Germany drops proposed green pylon route amid strong opposition.
• Wednesday, July 30 - EV sales double in EU with Renault and Volvo in lead.
• Tuesday, July 29 - White House: curb greenhouse gas emissions now or lose billions.
• Tuesday, July 29 - Three European banks drawn into US ‘dark pool’ probes.
• Monday, July 28 - “Solar and energy storage are a match made in heaven.”
• Monday, July 28 - Carney to Lloyds re abuse of bank rescue: “reprehensible", "criminal”.
• Monday, July 28 - Nasdaq OMX Chief warns of “perverted’ dark pools.
• Monday, July 28 - “Shale gas speed-up likely to make slow progress”: FT.
• Monday, July 28 - Fracking push gets go-ahead across UK: half the nation open for bids.
• Friday, July 25 - States and cities in the lead as clean energy goes mainstream.
• Friday, July 25 - "Coal company pain accelerates as bankruptcy cases rise": Bloomberg.
• Friday, July 25 - Apple eyes solar to power the cloud and iPhone 6 screen manufacturing.
• Thursday, July 24 - The Energy of Nations: "thriller-like", "fast-paced", "wonderful anecdotes".
• Thursday, July 24 - China's coal industry says times are hard, outlook worse.
• Thursday, July 24 - Coal India’s plans for 20 mines hit by land, environmental delays.
• Wednesday, July 23 - Will the micro-grid put major power companies out of business?
• Wednesday, July 23 - Four reasons why US fracking may turn out to be a bubble.
• Wednesday, July 23 - EU agrees to improve energy efficiency 30% by 2030.
• Tuesday, July 22 - Wind energy the cheapest form of power in Denmark.
• Tuesday, July 22 - Residents "weep with relief" as council rejects Sussex fracking site.
• Tuesday, July 22 - UK, Germany & Poland top list of 30 dirtiest coal-fired power stations.
• Tuesday, July 22 - Fears slump in Russia could trigger new global economic meltdown.
• Tuesday, July 22 - George Osborne defeated in attempt to weaken UK carbon budget.
• Tuesday, July 22 - Top geologist warns fracking hearing of the dangers of shale gas drilling.
• Monday, July 21 - World breaks temperature record for June after hottest May.
• Monday, July 21 - Climate models accurate when reflecting natural ocean cycles.
• Sunday, July 20 - Kashagan delays mar outlook for Eni, Total and Shell.
• Saturday, July 19 - Diesel supply bedevils investments in Africa’s internet: solar can help.
• Saturday, July 19 - Solar displacing oil for lighting, en route to the rest of fossil fuels.
• Friday, July 18 - California halts injection of fracking waste, fearing contamination.
• Friday, July 18 - Solar on UK commercial buildings: big vacant spaces, big opportunity.
• Friday, July 18 - UK economy less energy efficient than China's.
• Friday, July 18 - The Economist on Shell, Exxon & carbon: "the elephant in the atmosphere".
• Thursday, July 17 - Australia kills off carbon tax.
• Thursday, July 17 - "Supply setbacks will push oil price higher."
• Thursday, July 17 - "A black mound of Canadian oil waste is rising over Detroit."
• Thursday, July 17 - Ineos to build ethane facility at Grangemouth for US shale gas imports.
• Thursday, July 17 - Green bond market, growing at 60% pa, becomes mainstream.
• Thursday, July 17 - Renewables are now almost 15% of UK electricity, £8bn annual investment.
• Wednesday, July 16 - "‘Terrifying’ oil skills shortage delays projects and raises risks": FT.
• Wednesday, July 16 - Reports of the death of green jobs have been exaggerated.
• Tuesday, July 15 - UK on track to miss carbon targets, climate change advisers warn.
• Tuesday, July 15 - People’s Bank of China chief economist argues for green bonds.
• Tuesday, July 15 - US should broke rules with tariffs on Chinese solar modules, WTO finds.
• Monday, July 14 - Europe risks ‘significant’ gas shortages this winter: Total.
• Monday, July 14 - "Citigroup pays $7bn to settle sub-prime mortgage investigation."
• Monday, July 14 - Customer complaints about the Big 6 are at an all time high.
• Monday, July 14 - China requires EVs to be 30% of state vehicle purchases by 2016.
• Friday, July 11 - Iraq and Libya crucial to global oil supply in the short term: IEA.
• Friday, July 11 - Church group representing half a billion divests from fossil fuels.
• Friday, July 11 - "EDF nuclear deal is a bad economic bet."
• Thursday, July 10 - China exempts new electric cars from tax.
• Thursday, July 10 - As China's mood sours on the tar sands investor risk soars.
• Thursday, July 10 - Helsinki's ambitious plan to make car use redundant in 10 years.
• Thursday, July 10 - Chairman of fracking firm Cuadrilla helps select DECC senior execs.
• Thursday, July 10 - Online somewhere, July 10th, 2014
• Wednesday, July 9 - UK High Court rules for solar companies’ £132 million damages claim.
• Wednesday, July 9 - Electric ‘Boris cars’ come to London, now that they work in Paris.
• Wednesday, July 9 - "Shell underestimates risk for up to $77 billion of high cost oil projects."
• Wednesday, July 9 - US and China agree cautious join steps forward on abating climate change
• Wednesday, July 9 - "Fossil industry is the subprime danger of this cycle" / solar the future.
• Wednesday, July 9 - US & UK military reports: climate change is a threat to global security.
• Wednesday, July 9 - Deep decarbonization pathways available to hit 2˚C climate target: report.
• Tuesday, July 8 - Deutsche Bank to lend $1 billion for solar in Japan.
• Tuesday, July 8 - UK CCS project wins EU funding.
• Monday, July 7 - Russia says its oil production will drop next year.
• Monday, July 7 - 150 UK companies appeal to PM to stop undermining solar industry.
• Monday, July 7 - Companies, restaurants etc all selling solar power to grid in Japan.
• Monday, July 7 - UK climate change policies have not harmed economy, report says.
• Monday, July 7 - "Solar has won. Even if coal were free, power stations couldn't compete."
• Monday, July 7 - No 10 Downing Street, London, July 7th, 2014
• Sunday, July 6 - Insurers plan to cover withdrawal of wind and solar subsidies.
• Sunday, July 6 - National Grid chief calls for more interconnectors to UK.
• Saturday, July 5 - Dark snow accelerates glacial melting, accelerating sea-level rise.
• Saturday, July 5 - Shell joins class action against BP over Gulf spill.
• Saturday, July 5 - California under "severe drought" as wildfire rages in Napa valley.
• Friday, July 4 - UK banks fake letters from non-existent law firms to harass debtors.
• Friday, July 4 - British Gas to pay £1m for defrauding customers.
• Friday, July 4 - UK energy efficiency installations at lowest level for a decade.
• Friday, July 4 - Germany relaxes fracking ban to allow "scientific trials".
• Thursday, July 3 - German renewables in electricity generation exceeded 30% in first half.
• Thursday, July 3 - UK’s geology means fracking threatens drinking water, developers warned.
• Thursday, July 3 - Shell is wrong to accuse Carbon Tracker of "trivialising the climate debate".
• Wednesday, July 2 - "Oil explorers hit rock bottom": FT headline.
• Wednesday, July 2 - The Houses of Parliament, London, July 2nd, 2014
• Tuesday, July 1 - Renewables to win two-thirds of energy investment by 2030: Bloomberg.
• Tuesday, July 1 - BNP Paribas "regrets" over criminal behaviour & record $8.8bn fine.
• Monday, June 30 - Estimate of shale gas and oil in place in Midland Valley "modest".
• Monday, June 30 - In latest Arctic setback for oil industry, Statoil delays key project.
• Monday, June 30 - Global capital expenditure by cash-rich companies still stalling.
• Monday, June 30 - New York towns can prohibit fracking, state appeals court rules.
• Monday, June 30 - "Sectarian genie is out of the bottle from Syria to Iraq."
• Sunday, June 29 - UK electricity capacity market to add average £2 to UK bills.
• Friday, June 27 - Solar and wind leaving "a trail of blood" on German utility balance sheets.
• Friday, June 27 - German parliament votes in revisions of clean-energy law.
• Friday, June 27 - Coal boss calls carbon restrictions – and Obama – "evil".
• Thursday, June 26 - NY Attorney Gen. lawsuit accuses Barclays of "systemic fraud and deceit".
• Thursday, June 26 - Renewables generated nearly 20% of UK electricity in first quarter.
• Thursday, June 26 - Berlin accuses Brussels of trying to scupper the Energiewende.
• Thursday, June 26 - Solarcity joins the crowdfunding megatrend.
• Thursday, June 26 - British Medical Association votes for fossil-fuel divestment.
• Thursday, June 26 - Solar researchers discover route to non-toxic thin-film manufacturing.
• Thursday, June 26 - Obama pours scorn on Republican climate denial.
• Wednesday, June 25 - Carbon-fuel divestment movement spreads to medical profession.
• Wednesday, June 25 - Finance is the biggest tool in the US solar race, SolarCity shows.
• Wednesday, June 25 - Statoil to investors: climate fix possible with returns on oil for decades.
• Tuesday, June 24 - "We can expect big energy companies go bankrupt."
• Tuesday, June 24 - Despite divestment campaign, SRI investments in oil & gas increase.
• Tuesday, June 24 - Bloomberg, Paulson, Steyer: climate change is a risky business.
• Tuesday, June 24 - U.S. ruling loosens four-decade ban on oil exports.
• Tuesday, June 24 - UK and Germany beat solar records as community schemes multiply.
• Monday, June 23 - Italian government plans retroactive solar PV tariff cuts.
• Monday, June 23 - Harley Davidson unveils electric bike prototype.
• Monday, June 23 - Global race underway to develop floating offshore wind turbines.
• Friday, June 20 - HMG not acting on Royal Society fracking safety recommendations.
• Friday, June 20 - Thousands of fracked wells in Pennsylvania "may be leaking methane".
• Friday, June 20 - ISIS insurgents 40km from Baghdad, but no oil price spike yet.
• Friday, June 20 - Ofgem's biggest energy investigation could mean breakup for Big 6.
• Thursday, June 19 - The potential power of open-source intelligence: ex CIA officer.
• Thursday, June 19 - Carbon Tracker to Shell: investing in fossil fuels is "a bet on the future".
• Thursday, June 19 - Nato chief accuses Russia of working with NGOs to discredit fracking.
• Wednesday, June 18 - SolarCity moves from installation-only to domestic solar manufacturing.
• Wednesday, June 18 - Al Gore argues we are at a turning point of new hope on climate.
• Tuesday, June 17 - First steps on the road to a fossil-fuel-free future.
• Tuesday, June 17 - Odds seem to be stacked against the frackers in Germany.
• Tuesday, June 17 - "Energy Crunch" back as front-page headline.
• Monday, June 16 - REN21 report: Renewables added 56% of new generation in 2013.
• Monday, June 16 - Russia cuts off gas to Ukraine as talks collapse.
• Monday, June 16 - "Peak oil is dead" but the peakists "were not entirely wrong", says FT.
• Monday, June 16 - Cautious optimism as US, China and EU all move at the climate talks.
• Monday, June 16 - Coal's global energy market share highest since 1970, despite everything.
• Monday, June 16 - "Iraq blowback: Isis rise manufactured by insatiable oil addiction".
• Sunday, June 15 - Oil firm drops drilling Congo gorilla park under celebrity pressure.
• Sunday, June 15 - US oil production surpasses 1970 peak – if NGL are included.
• Friday, June 13 - Tesla plans to give away all patents to speed EV development.
• Friday, June 13 - Ohio Governor introduces bill to roll back wind and solar.
• Friday, June 13 - Germany now has a smart grid of Volkswagen mini-generators.
• Thursday, June 12 - Oil industry: "there is no clear evidence of a speculative 'carbon bubble'."
• Thursday, June 12 - "Fossil fuels are on their way out": Nelder on the stranded assets story.
• Thursday, June 12 - Mayfair, London, June 12th, 2014
• Wednesday, June 11 - Tourist guidebook to German renewables sites sells out.
• Wednesday, June 11 - Chance of an El Nino event this year is 90%, forecasters say.
• Wednesday, June 11 - Methane leakage: potentially worse global warming potential than coal.
• Tuesday, June 10 - Twelve times more solar needed to avoid climate catastrophe: IRENA.
• Sunday, June 8 - Coal is in structural decline: Citi and others.
• Saturday, June 7 - Obama: We cannot burn all the fossil fuels that are underground.
• Saturday, June 7 - Centrica holds off betting on fracking in hype warning.
• Friday, June 6 - First major tar sands oil shipment arrives in Europe amid protests.
• Thursday, June 5 - Doubling renewables lower cost than conventional equivalent: IRENA.
• Thursday, June 5 - Up to 40% of China's coal at risk of stranding by 2020.
• Wednesday, June 4 - Why solar is on a roll.
• Wednesday, June 4 - New IEA capex numbers entail upside oil price risk & asset-stranding risk.
• Wednesday, June 4 - US hits Chinese solar manufacturers with more tariffs.
• Wednesday, June 4 - Berlin prepares to allow fracking as early as next year.
• Wednesday, June 4 - UK government confirms plan for fracking under homes absent permission.
• Tuesday, June 3 - China to limit carbon emissions for first time, climate adviser claims.
• Tuesday, June 3 - Members reject US Chamber of Commerce stance on climate.
• Tuesday, June 3 - Obama takes personal charge against the backlash. 70% support him.
• Tuesday, June 3 - The flip-side of the Obama coal plan: 35% increase in gas generation.
• Tuesday, June 3 - "How solar will destroy the power companies, in 5 easy steps."
• Tuesday, June 3 - $300bn of fossil fuel assets risk being stranded by 2035, says IEA.
• Monday, June 2 - Obama unveils historic rules to reduce coal pollution by 30%.
• Monday, June 2 - Big energy pushback in Germany posing increasing danger to renewables.
• Monday, June 2 - World energy supply requires $40 trillion investment by 2035: IEA.
• Friday, May 30 - Shale rush in Argentina as oil majors spend billions on fracking.
• Friday, May 30 - US-China trade dispute slows the solar success story.
• Thursday, May 29 - Top bosses quit Centrica, "tiring of their status as punchbags".
• Thursday, May 29 - Chevron backs off renewables to free cash for more oil and gas.
• Thursday, May 29 - Total drops $11bn tar sands project, citing cost pressure.
• Thursday, May 29 - New US climate regulations aim to cut emissions 25% from power plants.
• Thursday, May 29 - BP faces "staggering" compensation costs for Macondo oil spill.
• Thursday, May 29 - Gas sucks investment from renewable energy in North America.
• Wednesday, May 28 - BoE: Capitalism risks self destruction unless banking ethics change.
• Wednesday, May 28 - Barclays "throws gasoline" on "battle between utilities and solar industry."
• Wednesday, May 28 - New EU energy strategy emphasises gas, stints renewables & efficiency.
• Tuesday, May 27 - Solar costs will match coal by 2016 in China, Suntech says.
• Tuesday, May 27 - "Shakeout threatens shale patch as frackers go for broke."
• Monday, May 26 - China's nuclear power plans vulnerable to domestic public protest.
• Sunday, May 25 - BP signs shale deal with Russia's Rosneft.
• Sunday, May 25 - IEA says Opec oil supply could fall short of meeting global demand.
• Friday, May 23 - No shale gas in UK's Weald basin, & little recoverable oil, survey concludes.
• Friday, May 23 - Opposition to fracking hardens in the Tory heartlands.
• Thursday, May 22 - UK government increases fracking compensation to average £0.8m.
• Thursday, May 22 - Fossil fuel attacks on renewables span a broad and well-resourced front.
• Thursday, May 22 - Largest flow battery in world unveiled in California – storing solar energy.
• Thursday, May 22 - First Californian county bans fracking.
• Thursday, May 22 - "Ministers signal start of the great oil rush": Telegraph front-page.
• Wednesday, May 21 - Thomas Pikkety and Russell Brand: So where is Abe Lincoln?
• Wednesday, May 21 - Top energy analyst charges Shell with asset-stranding risk "naivety".
• Wednesday, May 21 - Shale shock as biggest US putative tight-oil play revised down by 96%.
• Tuesday, May 20 - Cuadrilla prepares next wave of UK fracking planning applications.
• Monday, May 19 - China to triple solar capacity to 70 GW by 2017.
• Monday, May 19 - Shell insists its reserves won't be stranded by climate policymaking.
• Monday, May 19 - US regulator mulls crowdfunding as a way to jumpstart economy.
• Monday, May 19 - Antarctic ice shedding doubles in a few years, satellite shows.
• Monday, May 19 - British fracking support falls again, below 50% now, poll shows.
• Sunday, May 18 - "Obama’s bet on gas throws caution to the wind."
• Friday, May 16 - Did police criminalise first UK fracking protest to discourage later protest?
• Friday, May 16 - Shell accuses Carbon Tracker et al of "trivializing" climate debate.
• Thursday, May 15 - Fossil-fuel nations watered down IPCC climate science report, authors say.
• Thursday, May 15 - Individual solar companies now install >1 GW a year, pipeline hits 140 GW.
• Thursday, May 15 - Citi sees decline for coal: beginning of end in an "age of renewables".
• Thursday, May 15 - IEA: Opec oil supply could fall short of meeting global demand this year.
• Thursday, May 15 - Eon handed record fine for mis-selling energy.
• Thursday, May 15 - UK National Grid targets corporate energy cuts to head off blackouts.
• Thursday, May 15 - Fury in Turkey as 300 die in coal mine disaster.
• Wednesday, May 14 - Record borrowing by investors to buy shares is “worrying sign”.
• Tuesday, May 13 - US academic study: shale gas may suppress renewables.
• Tuesday, May 13 - US academic study: gas benefits over coal may be offset by economics.
• Tuesday, May 13 - UK government announces another crippling policy reversal on solar PV.
• Tuesday, May 13 - Stockholm, May 13th, 2014
• Monday, May 12 - Collapse of large part of West Antarctic ice sheet now unstoppable.
• Monday, May 12 - Renewables hit a record of just under 70% power in Germany.
• Sunday, May 11 - Cost of new oil projects >$100, revenue per boe $72: Morgan Stanley.
• Saturday, May 10 - "Systemic risk in energy markets is forcing us to a new narrative."
• Saturday, May 10 - Accounts emerge of how the IPCC scientific assessment was watered down.
• Friday, May 9 - Solar panels back on White House: US solar investment "set to explode".
• Thursday, May 8 - "Oil groups warned over spending on high-cost areas": FT.
• Thursday, May 8 - India admits Delhi matches Beijing in air pollution threat to public health.
• Thursday, May 8 - US gas prices are rising, and hence so is coal burning.
• Thursday, May 8 - Norton Rose Fulbright, City of London, May 8th, 2014
• Thursday, May 8 - US energy investment favours natural gas drillers.
• Wednesday, May 7 - Stanford drops coal investments, boosting student divestment campaign.
• Tuesday, May 6 - US Attorney General: "no company is too big to jail".
• Tuesday, May 6 - Huge opposition to change in UK trespass law for fracking under homes.
• Monday, May 5 - Kashagan consortium: delays mean longer contracts or missed targets.
• Sunday, May 4 - Nigerian oil theft "on industrial scale": production target "unachievable".
• Sunday, May 4 - US National Climate Assessment: here, clear, and present danger.
• Saturday, May 3 - 400,000 EVs now on the roads, with sales accelerating even in UK.
• Friday, May 2 - A UK Geological Society reviewer on fossil fuels as potentially toxic assets.
• Friday, May 2 - American Electric Power launches legal attack on EPA re carbon emissions.
• Thursday, May 1 - Greenpeace tries to stop unloading of first Arctic oil in Europe.
• Thursday, May 1 - Pro-tar sands Senators bid to take pipeline decision out of Obama's hands.
• Thursday, May 1 - Cleantech sector gaining steam – despite regulatory and other setbacks.
• Thursday, May 1 - Harvard students seeking carbon-fuel divestment blockade uni offices.
• Thursday, May 1 - "America's fracking fantasy."
• Thursday, May 1 - Eighth significant US/Canada crude-oil train accident in a year.
• Wednesday, April 30 - "Shale drillers feast on junk debt to stay on treadmill": Bloomberg.
• Wednesday, April 30 - France caught between a "nuclear cliff" and an "investment wall".
• Wednesday, April 30 - Exxon: None of our reserves are at risk of stranding by climate policy.
• Tuesday, April 29 - UK's DECC once again mulls risking solar defeat in jaws of victory.
• Tuesday, April 29 - Supreme Court backs coal-plant emission curbs.
• Tuesday, April 29 - UK support for renewables remains unwaveringly high in DECC poll.
• Monday, April 28 - FTSE joins Blackrock to offer help investors avoid fossil fuels.
• Monday, April 28 - "Caspian calamity: Kashagan oilfield risks becoming giant stranded asset."
• Sunday, April 27 - How will society treat energy incumbency bosses after the crisis?
• Thursday, April 24 - "Fossilised Revenues: $28trn of revenues at risk for fossil-fuel industry."
• Thursday, April 24 - Soho, London, April 24th, 2014
• Wednesday, April 23 - Eight major UK renewable energy projects receive government backing.
• Wednesday, April 23 - US oil stocks at record high.
• Tuesday, April 22 - "Is the U.S. shale boom going bust?"
• Tuesday, April 22 - Apple, with 100% renewable data centres, launches climate ad campaign.
• Sunday, April 20 - UK nuclear dump 'virtually certain' to be eroded by rising sea levels.
• Saturday, April 19 - Conservative heavyweights now have solar industry in their sights.
• Saturday, April 19 - Tar-sands pipeline decision put on hold until November or later.
• Friday, April 18 - Australian energy incumbency tries to ban divestment campaigning.
• Friday, April 18 - Petrochina ups shale gas target to 2.3% of Chinese gas demand by 2015.
• Thursday, April 17 - UK MP cleared of anti-fracking protest charges.
• Wednesday, April 16 - A third of Beijing's soaring air pollution comes from outside city.
• Wednesday, April 16 - Religious groups urge Pope to support fossil fuel divestment.
• Wednesday, April 16 - "Wall Street has gone insane": Michael Lewis on high-frequency trading.
• Tuesday, April 15 - RWE CEO says company should have invested in renewable sooner.
• Tuesday, April 15 - China's air pollution leading to more erratic climate for US, say scientists.
• Monday, April 14 - Wind farms far more popular than fracking, UK poll suggests.
• Monday, April 14 - "EPA drastically underestimates methane released at (shale) drilling sites."
• Sunday, April 13 - IMF "sleepwalking into another global economic catastrophe."
• Sunday, April 13 - Crude oil peaked in 2005, and industry data mask that. On purpose?
• Sunday, April 13 - "Averting climate change catastrophe is affordable, says IPCC report."
• Sunday, April 13 - "UN urges huge increase in green energy to avert climate disaster."
• Sunday, April 13 - Is the next financial crisis brewing in the asset bubble?
• Saturday, April 12 - "Capitalism isn't working" and why wealth disparity is the core reason.
• Friday, April 11 - “American subprime lending is back on the road”: this time it’s cars.
• Friday, April 11 - Fracking regulations tighten in Ohio as earthquake link is made.
• Friday, April 11 - Putin warns EU he may be about to turn off the gas.
• Thursday, April 10 - A "terrordome” in solar pricing threatens fossil -fuel business models.
• Thursday, April 10 - "We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet": Archbishop Tutu.
• Thursday, April 10 - Idea of US gas exports saving EU from dependency on Russia is "nonsense".
• Wednesday, April 9 - Nafeez Ahmed reviews Energy of Nations, Part 2: "Could he be right?"
• Wednesday, April 9 - "Global solar dominance in sight as science trumps fossil fuels."
• Tuesday, April 8 - Crowdfunding seen topping $5 bn for rooftop solar within 5 years.
• Tuesday, April 8 - BT, Shell and other corporates call for trillion tonne carbon cap.
• Monday, April 7 - Is coal really on the rise in Europe? A dead cat bounce, more like.
• Monday, April 7 - Giant Kashagan oilfield could be out of production for two years.
• Monday, April 7 - "Energy complaints reach highest level ever recorded."
• Monday, April 7 - Renewable energy investment fell for second year running in 2013.
• Monday, April 7 - ex Barclays boss Diamond escapes court appearance over LIBOR rigging.
• Sunday, April 6 - Fears of new gas war as Ukraine refuses to pay Gazprom for price hike.
• Sunday, April 6 - "Five signs the global economic recovery may be an illusion": Elliot latest.
• Sunday, April 6 - "Prepare now for fossil-free future": Aberdeen Asset Management in FT.
• Saturday, April 5 - "Britain is paying dearly for neglecting its nuclear waste": Economist.
• Friday, April 4 - Frackers to drill on old munitions site in UK.
• Friday, April 4 - UK Conservative party plans to ban onshore wind farms, maybe dismantle.
• Friday, April 4 - Damning US Coastguard report on Shell Arctic rig grounding.
• Thursday, April 3 - Record UK air pollution causes spike in 999 ambulance calls.
• Thursday, April 3 - UK government publishes strategy targeting solar rooftop generation.
• Thursday, April 3 - "No fool like an old fuel": latest Leggett column in Recharge.
• Thursday, April 3 - How SolarAid’s retail brand sold a million solar lanterns in Africa.
• Wednesday, April 2 - Olkiluoto third reactor now the most expensive building in the world.
• Tuesday, April 1 - Exxon, dismissing risk of carbon stranded assets, accused of naivety.
• Tuesday, April 1 - Fossil-fuel subsidies: "perverse and destructive".
• Tuesday, April 1 - The disruptive potential of solar power: "long term implications" for all.
• Monday, March 31 - IPCC: climate change already having effects in real time, far worse to come.
• Monday, March 31 - City of London, March 31st, 2014
• Friday, March 28 - EPA to assess methane leakage from US gas industry operations.
• Thursday, March 27 - Biggest coal and PR firms in world pair up to promote coal for the poor.
• Thursday, March 27 - Ofgem to launch full investigation into Big 6, possibly leading to breakup.
• Wednesday, March 26 - Pop stars organise against fracking in Spain.
• Wednesday, March 26 - EU leaders ask Obama for US "shale gas bonanza" exports.
• Wednesday, March 26 - Obama tells EU to do more to cut reliance on Russian gas.
• Wednesday, March 26 - Cameron: fracking is "good for UK", energy independence is "our duty".
• Tuesday, March 25 - US Congress experts tout LNG exports to punish Putin for Crimea.
• Tuesday, March 25 - Oil & Gas Journal: $35bn writedowns in shale raise "financial questions".
• Tuesday, March 25 - Fracking safety: report warns of "significant unknowns".
• Tuesday, March 25 - County Court, Brighton, UK, March 25th, 2014
• Monday, March 24 - The vulnerable US grid: how a little dispersed generation would help a lot.
• Sunday, March 23 - "European regulators warn as risky loans rise above bubble peak."
• Friday, March 21 - "Checkmate for cheap unconventional gas:" Dizard in FT.
• Friday, March 21 - List of tech companies targeting 100% renewables energy grows.
• Friday, March 21 - Growing global energy use threatens water supplies, UN warns.
• Thursday, March 20 - "How the oil sands could very quickly become unviable."
• Thursday, March 20 - ExxonMobil agrees to report to investors on carbon asset-stranding risk.
• Thursday, March 20 - After investing more than $8 bn in renewables, BP retreats.
• Wednesday, March 19 - EDF failed to disclose flooding risk caused Dungeness shutdown.
• Wednesday, March 19 - China cuts time for researchers to develop thorium reactor to 10 years.
• Wednesday, March 19 - California drought brings wildfires "outside any normal bounds".
• Tuesday, March 18 - How does an aging workforce build an electric power plant? Er, I forget.
• Monday, March 17 - $1.75bn Toyota bond: a new horizon for green bonds?
• Monday, March 17 - Paris bans half its cars from the streets for a day to fight air pollution.
• Friday, March 14 - NASA-funded study: Is industrial civilisation set for irreversible collapse?
• Thursday, March 13 - "The Oil and Gas Weapon Won't Work": Davis & Leggett on Ukraine.
• Thursday, March 13 - Norway's state pension fund to be given a renewables mandate.
• Wednesday, March 12 - "The energy transition tipping point is here, and there is no going back."
• Tuesday, March 11 - 100% renewable energy ambassadors appeal on Fukushima anniversary
• Tuesday, March 11 - Chevron cuts production growth target in face of rising costs.
• Monday, March 10 - Was 2013 the year of peak global fossil-fuel capex?
• Monday, March 10 - "Armchair warriors wage phoney war": US gas exports can't help Ukraine.
• Monday, March 10 - "Are US LNG export terminals the next expensive flop in energy?"
• Sunday, March 9 - Shareholder pressure on corporations builds on climate.
• Sunday, March 9 - "Dozens" of new ozone-destroying chemicals found in atmosphere.
• Friday, March 7 - Kashagan operators face huge fine for sour gas leak.
• Thursday, March 6 - "Carbon bubble poses serious threat to UK economy, MPs warn."
• Wednesday, March 5 - "Production from shale is not a revolution; it’s a retirement party."
• Wednesday, March 5 - "Install solar heating or risk jail, Kenya tells builders."
• Wednesday, March 5 - "Brakes put on UK shale gas revolution": FT.
• Wednesday, March 5 - UN climate chief: given stakes, my job is "most sacred in world".
• Wednesday, March 5 - Solar booms in the UK.
• Tuesday, March 4 - Republicans: US shale exports can wean EU off Russian gas.
• Tuesday, March 4 - BHP CEO warns on shale gas cost ….& fossil-fuel divestment.
• Tuesday, March 4 - "This Is What the Utility Death Spiral Looks Like."
• Tuesday, March 4 - "Norway spurs rethink on fossil fuel companies": FT.
• Monday, March 3 - "If you think the financial crisis was bad, consider this."
• Monday, March 3 - UK floods are changing the politics of climate, amid double standards.
• Monday, March 3 - State Department is downplaying KXL impact: Carbon Tracker.
• Saturday, March 1 - BP: we agree all reserves probably can't be burned.
• Friday, February 28 - Finnish nuclear plant delayed again as Areva & TVO go legal.
• Friday, February 28 - Norway's oil fund to debate stopping all fossil-fuel investments.
• Friday, February 28 - Total tries to sell stake in Azeri gas field in face of cost.
• Friday, February 28 - KXL delayed for more than a year, antagonists agree.
• Thursday, February 27 - "Dream of U.S. oil independence slams against shale costs."
• Wednesday, February 26 - "Beginning of the end" as oil companies cut back on spending?
• Tuesday, February 25 - Eynsham, Oxfordshire, February 25th, 2014
• Tuesday, February 25 - China's air pollution resembles nuclear winter, say scientists.
• Tuesday, February 25 - Unusual extreme weather in 2014 linked to climate change: WMO.
• Monday, February 24 - "This might be the thing that triggers the change" on climate change.
• Monday, February 24 - How to renewable-power the States, state by state.
• Monday, February 24 - "Why coal and many oil investments are losing luster."
• Wednesday, February 19 - Evidence grows of no net climate benefit from gas.
• Tuesday, February 18 - "Peasants' revolt – Romania at war with itself over fracking."
• Tuesday, February 18 - UK factories shut down at some peak times to avoid high power costs.
• Monday, February 17 - "(The) thesis is compelling. We face an existential threat."
• Monday, February 17 - Three more ex Barclays staff charged by SFO with LIBOR fraud.
• Monday, February 17 - “Conventional peak oil is quite probably here”: ex BP geologist.
• Monday, February 17 - Renewables revolution now in full swing, says Amory Lovins.
• Sunday, February 16 - Electricity use down in UK homes but Germany is doing far better.
• Sunday, February 16 - Barclays: profits down? Fire staff, hike bonuses.
• Friday, February 14 - EU utilities under pressure to change business models.
• Friday, February 14 - Big 6 UK energy companies: 5.5m complain in 2013, 800k quit.
• Thursday, February 13 - IEA urges Opec to sustain oil production to meet unexpected demand.
• Wednesday, February 12 - Coal India abandons share offer as investor scepticism grows.
• Wednesday, February 12 - If the oil price drops, "we become a cannibal society": Venezuela today.
• Tuesday, February 11 - SolarAid closes in on a million solar lantern sales.
• Monday, February 10 - Dire UK flooding due to global warming: Met Office.
• Sunday, February 9 - "Why global water shortages pose threat of terror and war."
• Sunday, February 9 - Davey to Ofgem: consider breaking up Big 6.
• Friday, February 7 - IEA ED: we only ever said the Golden Age of Gas is potential.
• Thursday, February 6 - Renewables to replace fossil fuels? "Certain", argues Jeremy Grantham.
• Wednesday, February 5 - "The battle lines on climate become ever clearer."
• Wednesday, February 5 - "US shale under fire over thirst for water": FT.
• Monday, February 3 - Bumula district, Kenya, February 3rd, 2014
• Monday, February 3 - Long-running Californian drought now threatens water supply.
• Sunday, February 2 - Look beyond the feel-good headlines on oil supply.
• Sunday, February 2 - Big 6 must repay £400m they wrongly retain: Ofgem.
• Saturday, February 1 - Landowners and environmentalists unite to fight KXL.
• Friday, January 31 - State Department ruling makes KXL more likely.
• Friday, January 31 - "Shell’s capitulation to activist investors will send shivers through Big Oil."
• Thursday, January 30 - Shell pulls out of Arctic drilling in 2014.
• Thursday, January 30 - China sets world record for annual national solar installation.
• Thursday, January 30 - US spied on other governments at Copenhagen climate summit.
• Thursday, January 30 - Assessing UK shale will take 5 years and 20-40 fracked wells.
• Wednesday, January 29 - 17 foundations divest from fossil fuels.
• Wednesday, January 29 - "Oil profits slump as higher spending fails to lift output."
• Tuesday, January 28 - Public support for fracking in Britain falls for a second time.
• Tuesday, January 28 - Norway's sovereign fund halves coal exposure.
• Tuesday, January 28 - Big oil companies struggle to justify soaring project costs.
• Monday, January 27 - US solar jobs growing 10x > national average employment growth.
• Monday, January 27 - Renewables provide 37% of all new 2013 US generating capacity.
• Monday, January 27 - Chinese Trust Fund just avoids default after coal loans to bankrupt miner.
• Monday, January 27 - True greens should embrace fracking, says minister.
• Monday, January 27 - Cuadrilla cannot frack until it solves radioactive-water disposal problem.
• Monday, January 27 - New UK shale delays over radioactive waste water release.
• Monday, January 27 - Boeing talks of "biggest breakthrough in biofuels ever"
• Sunday, January 26 - World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, January 22nd – 26th, 2014
• Sunday, January 26 - Fracking firms 'should pay £6bn pa tax to compensate for climate change'.
• Saturday, January 25 - Carbon-bubble risk gains further recognition at Davos.
• Friday, January 24 - Davos delegates warned of imminent energy crisis.
• Friday, January 24 - Cameron: UK can woo businesses back to UK with 'cheap' shale gas.
• Friday, January 24 - Shale gas extraction in UK likely to increase carbon emissions.
• Friday, January 24 - Gore tells WEF world is close to "political tipping point" on climate.
• Thursday, January 23 - EU's renewable energy plan is a ‘lame-duck’ 'setback', industry says.
• Thursday, January 23 - Academic study endeavours to calm carbon-bubble concern.
• Thursday, January 23 - Storage for renewable energy: expect big advances in 2014.
• Wednesday, January 22 - SEIA appeals for negotiated solution to the US-China solar trade war.
• Wednesday, January 22 - World's largest solar bridge opens in London.
• Wednesday, January 22 - EU to cut carbon emissions by 40% by 2030.
• Wednesday, January 22 - "E.ON runs down power stations despite blackout warning."
• Tuesday, January 21 - Storebrand excludes another 10 coal companies.
• Tuesday, January 21 - Concentrated cash pile puts recovery in hands of just a few corporations.
• Tuesday, January 21 - 2013 was 4th warmest year ever: 9 of 10 since 2000.
• Tuesday, January 21 - Plans for a European solar PV super-fab.
• Monday, January 20 - "The US shale boom is overhyped." And China is watching?
• Monday, January 20 - al-Husseini: Global oil supply plateau unlikely to extend beyond 2020.
• Monday, January 20 - ‘Peak demand’ oil theory fails scrutiny test.
• Monday, January 20 - Financial crises average once every 7 years: one due therefore?
• Monday, January 20 - 85 richest people in the world are as wealthy as poorest half.
• Saturday, January 18 - UK's Green Deal fails to create desired energy efficiency revolution.
• Friday, January 17 - Shell profit warning wipes 6.5 billion pounds off of UK's FTSE.
• Friday, January 17 - "Shell, bruised by big bets, warns of profit miss."
• Friday, January 17 - Low-carbon scenario could cut coal asset value by 44%: HSBC.
• Friday, January 17 - UN climate report urges quicker switch to low-carbon global economy.
• Friday, January 17 - US Army colonel: "world is sleepwalking to a global energy crisis."
• Friday, January 17 - IEA boss: methane hydrates may be the next energy boom.
• Thursday, January 16 - RWE halves investment in renewables.
• Thursday, January 16 - WEF Global Risk 2014 report: energy crisis not in the 31 risks studied.
• Thursday, January 16 - Australian heatwave shows man-made climate change, scientists say.
• Wednesday, January 15 - "US still vulnerable to oil shocks, say generals."
• Wednesday, January 15 - Carbon bubble discussed at UN before investors managing $22 trillion.
• Wednesday, January 15 - UN headquarters, New York, January 15th, 2014
• Wednesday, January 15 - Global investment in clean energy falls for second year running.
• Wednesday, January 15 - How to invest a trillion dollars a year in clean energy by 2030: CERES.
• Wednesday, January 15 - UN climate chief: investors will be seen as breaching fiduciary duty.
• Wednesday, January 15 - Are fracking fluids to blame for rail car explosions?
• Tuesday, January 14 - "We have arrived in a time of consequences".
• Monday, January 13 - Pocantico, New York, January 13th, 2014
• Monday, January 13 - Thirteen major banks issue Green Bond Development principles.
• Monday, January 13 - UK PM: 'We're going all out for shale,' & those opposing are 'irrational'.
• Saturday, January 11 - "Total joins UK pursuit of shale boom": FT.
• Thursday, January 9 - Black outlook for coal even in China: FT Lex.
• Wednesday, January 8 - UK PM links current floods to climate change: "power of context" at work.
• Wednesday, January 8 - Wind energy helps ward off power outages in US icy winter blast.
• Tuesday, January 7 - JP Morgan pays £2.6bn to head off criminal prosecution over Madoff.
• Tuesday, January 7 - The slow development of China's shale: "there must be a problem".
• Tuesday, January 7 - "We need to get our mindset away from scarcity", it's time to export oil.
• Tuesday, January 7 - EU ministers call for 2030 renewables target. UK opposes.
• Monday, January 6 - UN official in charge of climate talks warns world is running out of time.
• Monday, January 6 - "Brazil’s oil euphoria hits reality hard": Washington Post.
• Monday, January 6 - Post-2005 growth in global oil supply: all unconventional, NGL, or biofuels.
• Monday, January 6 - Deutsche Bank hails second solar ‘gold rush’: UK in 6th place.
• Sunday, January 5 - "Shale boom leaves investors underwhelmed."
• Friday, January 3 - US oil and gas companies slash spending as foreign investment dries up.
• Friday, January 3 - Ford to unveil a solar-powered hybrid car.
• Friday, January 3 - Minnesota Judge: solar beats natural gas for utility procurement
• Friday, January 3 - "Solar panel craze on Wall Street": NY Times.
• Friday, January 3 - BP given permission to drill off Greenland.
• Thursday, January 2 - Chinese solar and coal giants form an energy JV.
• Thursday, January 2 - UK windpower breaks monthly, weekly, and daily records in December.
• Thursday, January 2 - West's debt hits 200-yr high: IMF warns of 'savings tax' & mass write-offs.
• Thursday, January 2 - Fears of global oil crisis aired at Transatlantic Energy Security Dialogue.
• Thursday, January 2 - US State Department makes a priority of a climate treaty.
• Wednesday, January 1 - "Oil supply risk divides strategists": FT.
• Wednesday, January 1 - Labour accuses Big 6 of c. £4bn overcharging on bills.

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• Tuesday, December 31 - Barclays boss admits it could take 10 years to rebuild public trust.
• Monday, December 30 - One more year of relative oil and gas stability before the storm?
• Sunday, December 29 - Another analyst concludes the shale oil party is nearly over.
• Tuesday, December 24 - Wyoming shale gas wells go unreclaimed as boom turns to bust.
• Monday, December 23 - Former BP geologist Richard Miller: peak oil is essentially here.
• Monday, December 23 - PBoC injects $50bn into Chinese economy to ease credit crunch fear.
• Monday, December 23 - S Sudan loses 250k mbd and the talk is of global oil supply crisis.
• Sunday, December 22 - Solar farms = industrialisation of the UK countryside? Try fracking.
• Saturday, December 21 - UK spying on EU makes Brussels clearance for Hinkley less likely.
• Friday, December 20 - Pennsylvania supreme court strikes key lax fracking law.
• Friday, December 20 - Conservative groups spend up to $1bn a year to fight climate action.
• Friday, December 20 - UK closes in on half a million solar homes but solar factory shuts.
• Friday, December 20 - SSE to close two coal-fired power plants.
• Thursday, December 19 - "Global solar industry is on the rebound": IHS.
• Thursday, December 19 - British businesses to be paid to switch off to stop blackouts in 2014.
• Wednesday, December 18 - European Commission begins state-aid investigation into Hinkley.
• Tuesday, December 17 - HMG to open two thirds of UK to fracking despite evidence of harm.
• Tuesday, December 17 - US shale: "not a revolution but a retirement party".
• Monday, December 16 - Proving renewables can run modern economies: one solar light at a time.
• Monday, December 16 - Coal set to grow at a "relentless pace" through 2018: IEA.
• Monday, December 16 - EIA's latest bullish forecasts for tight oil peak: 4.8 mbd in 2021.
• Monday, December 16 - "We don't want to see the Fall of Saigon scenario".
• Sunday, December 15 - "The shale boom we're in is the last gasp."
• Sunday, December 15 - "I no longer sell kerosene": everyone wants solar lights.
• Friday, December 13 - Third Big 6 UK offshore wind farm cancellation or pullout in two weeks.
• Friday, December 13 - "The fall off in conventional oil production is real and scary."
• Wednesday, December 11 - Criminal action is expected for JPMorgan in Madoff case.
• Tuesday, December 10 - London and Washington, December 10th, 2013
• Tuesday, December 10 - Royal Society publishes special volume on the risk of peak oil.
• Monday, December 9 - Billions flow into green bonds.
• Sunday, December 8 - How solar lighting is spreading fast in Africa.
• Sunday, December 8 - Monterey Shale: another over-hyped US shale deposit.
• Wednesday, December 4 - 2˚C target for climate talks is 1˚ too high: Jim Hansen + 17 scientists.
• Wednesday, December 4 - UK renewable subsidy cuts hit onshore wind and solar pv.
• Tuesday, December 3 - Why Canada's oil sands look like a shaky investment: Carbon Tracker.
• Tuesday, December 3 - The unfathomable scrabble & splash energy policies of the UK government.
• Monday, December 2 - Majority of Norwegian MPs for state pension fund quitting coal.
• Saturday, November 30 - Barclays intends to fund UK fracking.
• Saturday, November 30 - Berlin, November 29th & 30th, 2013
• Friday, November 29 - SolarAid wins a Eurosolar Prize for solar light mobilisation in Africa.
• Friday, November 29 - US Navy and Marine Corps start training veterans in clean energy.
• Friday, November 29 - Fracking will not reduce gas prices in the UK: Lord Browne.
• Friday, November 29 - Don't expect Arctic large-scale oil production for decades: Statoil.
• Thursday, November 28 - Canadian Arctic port and rail company pins hope for revival on oil exports.
• Thursday, November 28 - UK energy bills to be cut £50 by losing "green crap".
• Wednesday, November 27 - Water shortages may preclude fracking in parts of UK.
• Tuesday, November 26 - RWE axes huge UK offshore wind farm citing investor uncertainty.
• Tuesday, November 26 - UK energy co-op raises a £quarter million+ in five weeks.
• Tuesday, November 26 - Istanbul, November 25th & 26th, 2013
• Tuesday, November 26 - Fossil-fuel divestment campaign grows on US campuses.
• Monday, November 25 - Keystone could encourage risky tar-sands investments: Carbon Tracker.
• Monday, November 25 - Warsaw climate summit ends with commitments to do more homework.
• Monday, November 25 - Ever more capex for ever fewer barrels: another oil supply warning.
• Saturday, November 23 - Pension funds on why they are quizzing fossil-fuel bosses re carbon plans.
• Friday, November 22 - SolarCity becomes first US solar company to offer bonds on rooftop solar.
• Friday, November 22 - BHP chair under climate pressure: investing in renewables is "not us".
• Thursday, November 21 - Big 6 accused of "daylight robbery": >25% of bills overcharged.
• Thursday, November 21 - Does Blackstone's sale of GeoSouthern say anything about peak oil?
• Thursday, November 21 - Almost all new US generating capacity added in October is solar.
• Wednesday, November 20 - UK government: no more public money for coal in developing countries.
• Wednesday, November 20 - London and Washington, November 20th, 2013
• Wednesday, November 20 - Reading between the lines on the IEA's mix of hype and warnings on oil.
• Wednesday, November 20 - Investors demand oil, coal and power companies assess climate risks.
• Tuesday, November 19 - Just 90 companies have caused two-thirds of global warming emissions.
• Monday, November 18 - Philippine typhoon adds drama to 2013 climate summit in Poland.
• Monday, November 18 - "Sants’ resignation from Barclays shows pitfalls of poaching": FT.
• Monday, November 18 - British banks among biggest lenders to coal industry.
• Saturday, November 16 - "But if the financial crisis taught us anything…."
• Friday, November 15 - Philanthropy & risk taking in global energy: challenges, opportunities.
• Thursday, November 14 - Coal chief runs for BHP Board on climate risk, supported by CALPERS.
• Wednesday, November 13 - SSE and other EU utilities speak up for renewables, against the gas alliance.
• Wednesday, November 13 - Amsterdam, November 13th, 2013
• Tuesday, November 12 - IEA WEO: US shale production does not mean a new era of oil abundance.
• Monday, November 11 - Solar Power Begins to Shine as Environmental Benefits Pay Off
• Monday, November 11 - NSA & GCHQ spying on OPEC shows Saudi masking of production figures.
• Wednesday, November 6 - Invest more in oil? "A big, big bet": interview in Norway's financial paper.
• Wednesday, November 6 - Four oil traders claim in court that BP, Shell and others fix oil spot market.
• Tuesday, November 5 - "Oil majors under pressure to curb spending": FT.
• Tuesday, November 5 - "Divesting stranded assets makes financial sense, via total return swaps."
• Tuesday, November 5 - Oslo, October 31st – November 5th, 2013
• Tuesday, November 5 - UK attitudes to energy efficiency unchanged despite ever higher bills.
• Monday, November 4 - "Sunshine backed bond to go on sale": FT.
• Monday, November 4 - "Norway's sovereign wealth fund to divest from coal".
• Monday, November 4 - Crowdfunding rules relaxed in the USA, to the benefit of renewables.
• Monday, November 4 - Denial of carbon arithmetic abounds in the heart of the energy incumbency.
• Tuesday, October 29 - Big 6 "overcharge by £3.7bn a year".
• Monday, October 28 - "Underground truths: shale won't save us."
• Saturday, October 26 - The big questions the Big 6 need to answer.
• Saturday, October 26 - If Hinkley C has no public subsidy, why the need for state aid clearance?
• Friday, October 25 - "Climate regulations could cost fossil-fuel firms trillions."
• Thursday, October 24 - "The global economy sinks under its debts as the real cost of energy rises."
• Thursday, October 24 - $3trn investor coalition heaps stranded-asset pressure on fossil fuel firms.
• Thursday, October 24 - UK PM threatens to "roll back" UK green taxes. Deputy PM opposes.
• Wednesday, October 23 - Is RWE considering a complete turnaround of their business plan?
• Wednesday, October 23 - 3 reasons why Germans are going renewable "at all costs".
• Tuesday, October 22 - Big corporations embracing microgrids: another threat to utilities.
• Tuesday, October 22 - GDF Suez to fund fracking in UK.
• Monday, October 21 - Stock markets no longer fit for purpose: John Fullerton.
• Monday, October 21 - Nuclear plant deal agreed by DECC and EDF amid derision over cost.
• Friday, October 18 - Carbon Tracker has "caused a sensation": digest of the last quarter.
• Thursday, October 17 - BG hikes UK gas prices 10% and suffers major PR disaster.
• Thursday, October 17 - China to take stakes in UK nuclear plants.
• Wednesday, October 16 - US peak oil vulnerability map shows grave threat to US economy.
• Wednesday, October 16 - "Europe’s electricity providers face an existential threat": the Economist.
• Tuesday, October 15 - Conflict in Germany between utilities and Greens on bills.
• Monday, October 14 - "Energy system collapse is inevitable. But". Interview with Solarplaza.
• Monday, October 14 - Daegu, Korea, October 14th, 2013
• Monday, October 14 - Low C policies to add 41% to UK energy bills by 2030: DECC.
• Monday, October 14 - Dan Yergin on the crucial importance of US tight oil in global supply.
• Sunday, October 13 - "World shivers with fear as US heads for new debt crisis."
• Sunday, October 13 - Conventional energy industry heading for global crash: JL at WEC.
• Friday, October 11 - One of five Swedish state pension retreats from carbon investment.
• Friday, October 11 - Ten EU utilities call openly for an end to renewables subsidies.
• Friday, October 11 - France's constitutional court upholds fracking ban.
• Thursday, October 10 - Analysis of SSE's price rise shows their blaming "green taxes" is wrong.
• Thursday, October 10 - SSE blames green policies for price hike. Miliband calls Big 6 "predatory".
• Thursday, October 10 - UK Environment Agency banned a fracking chemical at Balcombe.
• Thursday, October 10 - "U.S. shale-oil boom may not last as fracking wells lack staying power."
• Wednesday, October 9 - China overtakes US as the world's largest world oil importer.
• Tuesday, October 8 - Battery-stored solar power sparks backlash from US utilities.
• Monday, October 7 - A response to US critics of Germany's Energiewende: Mark Jacobsen.
• Sunday, October 6 - Retiring Shell CEO Voser regrets huge bet on US shale.
• Saturday, October 5 - Russian embassy, London, October 5th, 2013
• Friday, October 4 - "America flirts with self destruction" over debt ceiling and Obamacare.
• Friday, October 4 - A small band of sceptics were very effective in combatting IPCC message.
• Friday, October 4 - US fracking annual toxic waste water enough to flood Washington DC.
• Friday, October 4 - US oil-and-gas production pulls ahead of Russia and Saudi Arabia.
• Thursday, October 3 - BP wins Deepwater Horizon spill compensation appeal.
• Thursday, October 3 - Carbon emissions acidifying oceans at fastest rate for 300m years.
• Wednesday, October 2 - Dangerous radioactivity found at fracking waste site in Pennsylvania.
• Wednesday, October 2 - Public protests hit UK support for fracking.
• Wednesday, October 2 - New Queensland coal development: expect stranding of this carbon bomb.
• Tuesday, October 1 - Interest sours in Brazil’s Libra pre-salt oilfield auction.
• Tuesday, October 1 - European utilities declare a form of war on renewables.
• Tuesday, October 1 - Bankers to face jail for "reckless misconduct" from 2014.
• Monday, September 30 - Shell looks to sell US shale portfolio after $2bn writedown.
• Monday, September 30 - Coal in the doldrums, even in Wyoming.
• Monday, September 30 - BP accused of "outright lies" in US federal trial.
• Monday, September 30 - IKEA to sell solar panels in all UK stores.
• Sunday, September 29 - Grangemouth applies for government guarantee to convert to US shale.
• Sunday, September 29 - BP accused of rejecting a plan that might have stemmed spill early.
• Sunday, September 29 - Why governments are blind to fossil fuel energy risk.
• Friday, September 27 - IPCC: Most fossil-fuel reserves are unburnable if the target is 2˚C.
• Friday, September 27 - Sceptics focus on "pause" mantra to try discrediting IPCC.
• Friday, September 27 - BBC studio, Tunbridge Wells, UK, September 27th, 2013
• Friday, September 27 - IPCC scientists report: a summary.
• Friday, September 27 - "IPCC: 30 years to climate calamity if we carry on blowing carbon budget."
• Friday, September 27 - "What does the IPCC report mean for business and investors?"
• Friday, September 27 - "It's vital that business acts on the IPCC's warnings."
• Friday, September 27 - Global warming likely to breach 2C threshold, climate scientists conclude.
• Thursday, September 26 - Annual installations of solar to beat wind for first time in 2013.
• Thursday, September 26 - "Why governments are blind to fossil fuel energy risk."
• Thursday, September 26 - "Solving systemic energy risks could lead to a renaissance."
• Tuesday, September 24 - "A grim future if our oil-dependent society refuses to change."
• Monday, September 23 - Colorado floods 'completely overwhelm' search for oil and gas leaks.
• Friday, September 20 - Arctic heading for ice-free summers in next few decades.
• Friday, September 20 - Big business is paying for sceptics to undermine IPCC report: UN.
• Friday, September 20 - EPA takes first steps to limit carbon emissions from power plants.
• Thursday, September 19 - JP Morgan fined $920m for “tempest in teapot”, with “more to come”.
• Thursday, September 19 - PM Abe to Fukushima disaster workers: Japan's future depends on you.
• Thursday, September 19 - Arctic oil protest: shots fired and mass arrest by commandos.
• Thursday, September 19 - Sceptic groups crank up efforts to discredit forthcoming IPCC report.
• Wednesday, September 18 - 8 in 10 news articles on climate focus on uncertainty.
• Wednesday, September 18 - Mexico hedges oil output at highest price on record.
• Tuesday, September 17 - Most U.S. companies ignoring SEC rule to disclose climate risks.
• Tuesday, September 17 - Obama administration set to block new US coal plants.
• Tuesday, September 17 - IHS: shale oil resources are vast outside the US – at high oil price.
• Tuesday, September 17 - Colorado floodwaters cover fracking wells. "No idea" of leakage.
• Tuesday, September 17 - IHS study points to vast shale oilfields outside US. But.
• Monday, September 16 - US utility agrees solar is now cheaper than gas.
• Monday, September 16 - Warning to pensions firms as fees erode up to a third of pension pots.
• Monday, September 16 - US super-rich hit new wealth record five years after financial crisis.
• Monday, September 16 - Study funded by Big Oil finds Small Leaks from gas production.
• Monday, September 16 - Record Saudi oil output needed to avoid global supply shortfall.
• Sunday, September 15 - US rivals battle over LNG: 4 export permits now approved.
• Sunday, September 15 - Five years on from Lehman collapse, risk of meltdown remains.
• Friday, September 13 - All Japan's nuclear plants shut again, cash-strapped utilities deep in red.
• Thursday, September 12 - Whistleblower sues Morgan Stanley over harrassment.
• Wednesday, September 11 - "Derivatives move from banks into the shadows": FT.
• Wednesday, September 11 - Kashagan produces first oil 13 years after discovery.
• Tuesday, September 10 - Community-based renewables projects "could soar in UK".
• Tuesday, September 10 - "Renewables a safer investment bet than the carbon bubble."
• Monday, September 9 - UK minister: fracking won't increase UK greenhouse emissions.
• Monday, September 9 - 9 utility bosses say solar and wind policies threaten EU energy security.
• Sunday, September 8 - Cost of drilling rises steeply for oil majors: "the margins are not there."
• Sunday, September 8 - Is the US shale oil revolution about to run out of steam?
• Sunday, September 8 - UK recovery based on households getting deeper into debt is a bad idea.
• Sunday, September 8 - New European law to clamp down on market price-rigging.
• Sunday, September 8 - Swedish politicians urge state pension funds to dump fossil fuel holdings.
• Sunday, September 8 - UK Green New Deal Group calls for £50bn stimulus for green job creation.
• Saturday, September 7 - Boss of oil drilling-services giant thinks we may have arrived at peak oil.
• Friday, September 6 - Solar continues to top UK energy-popularity opinion polls.
• Friday, September 6 - Centre-right "sabotage" leads to renewables job losses: German politician.
• Friday, September 6 - Insurance leader warns of "systemic risk" of rush of capital into insurance.
• Friday, September 6 - Tullow makes its first Arctic oil discovery.
• Thursday, September 5 - Half extreme events made worse by climate change.
• Wednesday, September 4 - India crisis threatens to hit banks hard as bad debt soars.
• Wednesday, September 4 - Deadly new radiation high detected at Fukushima storage tanks.
• Wednesday, September 4 - US could release strategic oil reserves after air strike on Syria, analysts say.
• Tuesday, September 3 - Problems of oil and gas industry do not bode well for the shale story.
• Monday, September 2 - Solar-based desalination is the answer to the MENA water crisis.
• Monday, September 2 - Libyan output falls, squeezing supplies of crude oil to refineries.
• Sunday, September 1 - Fukushima radiation levels 18 times higher than previously thought.
• Sunday, September 1 - Chinese seek greater say in running UK nuclear power plants.
• Friday, August 30 - BP in a slanging match with state of Louisiana over Macondo costs.
• Friday, August 30 - Storebrand to examine portfolio for stranded assets.
• Thursday, August 29 - Why Norway's oil fund has lower returns than rivals: too much oil?
• Thursday, August 29 - US Army now has a $7bn renewables procurement programme.
• Thursday, August 29 - Why "The Oil Drum" peak-oil website shut down: Not the death of peak oil.
• Wednesday, August 28 - Renewables to equal coal in China by 2030, Bloomberg NEF predicts.
• Wednesday, August 28 - Decadal cooling effect in the Pacific slows overall global temperature rise.
• Wednesday, August 28 - Berliners' co-op aims to take over and run electricity grid of city.
• Wednesday, August 28 - World Economic Forum HQ, Geneva, August 28th, 2013
• Monday, August 26 - "None of the experts saw India's debt bubble coming. Sound familiar?"
• Monday, August 26 - UK gas storage remains worryingly constrained.
• Sunday, August 25 - Rising CO2 threatens ocean acidification catastrophe, scientists warn.
• Sunday, August 25 - "Renewable energy lifts hopes of a safe return": FT headline.
• Sunday, August 25 - State of emergency in San Francisco as state fights huge wildfire.
• Sunday, August 25 - "UK solar power rush sparks local protests": FT.
• Friday, August 23 - Australian Coal Association disbands as coal boom turns to bust.
• Friday, August 23 - There are more solar workers in Texas now than ranchers. And so on.
• Friday, August 23 - Obama finally decides to put solar panels on the White House.
• Thursday, August 22 - Germany's massive subsidies for conventional energy: a review.
• Thursday, August 22 - Poll shows UK public much prefer solar farms to fracking.
• Thursday, August 22 - First federal land lease for coal mining in Wyoming without a bid.
• Thursday, August 22 - Bank of England, London, August 2nd, 2013
• Wednesday, August 21 - CalSTRS calls for action based on Carbon Tracker report.
• Tuesday, August 20 - Tepco reveals leak of 300 tonnes of highly contaminated water.
• Tuesday, August 20 - Ageing infrastructure speeds decline of North Sea oil production.
• Tuesday, August 20 - China to import >9 million barrels of oil a day by 2020: Wood Mackenzie.
• Monday, August 19 - A solar system is installed every 4 minutes in the US and every 2 in Japan.
• Monday, August 19 - "Shale grab in U.S. stalls as falling values repel buyers" Bloomberg.
• Monday, August 19 - The unhelpful opacity of climate investing.
• Monday, August 19 - MP among dozens arrested in non-violent direct actions at Balcombe.
• Sunday, August 18 - Balcombe, The Weald, UK, August 18th, 2013
• Sunday, August 18 - Thousands protest at potential southern UK fracking site.
• Sunday, August 18 - US became a net exporter of fuel in 2011.
• Friday, August 16 - CoE official speaks up for fracking, likens opposition to fears over MMR.
• Friday, August 16 - UK's flagship biomass power plant closes amid policy confusion.
• Friday, August 16 - Squeezed households cut energy use by a quarter as prices soar.
• Friday, August 16 - Kickstarter's version of crowdfunding proving to have mass appeal.
• Friday, August 16 - Nuclear safety shutdown in S Korea causes national energy crisis.
• Friday, August 16 - Ecuador abandons plan to stave off Amazon oil drilling.
• Wednesday, August 14 - Biomass energy growth flags in UK as official support wavers.
• Wednesday, August 14 - RWE: Solar now makes many power plants unprofitable across Europe.
• Wednesday, August 14 - "Solar power to trump shale, helped by US military": Telegraph.
• Wednesday, August 14 - SolarCity makes $120m acquisition, heads for 6 GW of solar roofs by 2018.
• Tuesday, August 13 - Eon blames 42% profit drop on growth of renewables.
• Tuesday, August 13 - World Bank green bonds for tackling climate now exceed $4 bn.
• Tuesday, August 13 - Danish pension fund backs UK biomass plant.
• Tuesday, August 13 - BP pleads guilty to criminal charges, then sues US government over ban.
• Tuesday, August 13 - Energy storage technologies poised for breakthrough to next level.
• Tuesday, August 13 - Poll shows UK public split on fracking.
• Sunday, August 11 - "Oil majors trapped in cycle of spending more but finding less": FT.
• Sunday, August 11 - Texan drought sets residents against fracking as wells dry up.
• Saturday, August 10 - Caudrilla kindles "a new beacon of protest against a fossil-fuelled future.
• Friday, August 9 - Oil supply tight: Saudi production rises to feed air conditioners, etc
• Friday, August 9 - UK Big 6 profits soar to £3.7 billion.
• Friday, August 9 - The first major cleantech breakthrough: Tesla shares soar.
• Friday, August 9 - Citi's prediction of peak oil demand at 92 mbd: "unusual".
• Friday, August 9 - "Oil price held high by supply disruptions": FT.
• Thursday, August 8 - "Solar power co-operatives are fast emerging" in the UK.
• Thursday, August 8 - "Renewables: a rising power": FT on solar cost reductions.
• Thursday, August 8 - Iraqi oil resurgence falters, squeezing global supply.
• Thursday, August 8 - Crowdfunder Abundance raises £0.7m for solar in a month.
• Thursday, August 8 - Cameron backs UK fracking, citing jobs and lower gas prices.
• Thursday, August 8 - JP Morgan faces new criminal probe over MBS selling.
• Wednesday, August 7 - "America is reaching the limits of its energy boom."
• Wednesday, August 7 - "Analysts say investor interest (in Big Oil) has rarely been lower": FT.
• Tuesday, August 6 - Expert questions latest industry estimates for US shale oil production.
• Tuesday, August 6 - "Coal at risk as global lenders drop financing on climate": Bloomberg.
• Tuesday, August 6 - NOAA: Arctic ice disappeared in 2012 faster than ever before.
• Tuesday, August 6 - Emergency declared as radioactive water spills out of Fukushima plant.
• Tuesday, August 6 - "Australia’s coal miners feel the heat as China investment cools": FT.
• Tuesday, August 6 - "Frantic fracking sends US natural gas prices into freefall": FT headline.
• Monday, August 5 - Osborne says UK must not miss out on shale gas jobs and low gas prices.
• Monday, August 5 - Oil companies may be stripped of physical oil trading, amid fixing fears.
• Monday, August 5 - 23% of asset owners factored climate into decisions in 2012 (up from 9%).
• Monday, August 5 - Oil company gag bans two children for life from talking about fracking.
• Monday, August 5 - American carbon is flowing into the global economy at its fastest ever.
• Sunday, August 4 - US shale gas boom a "one off", says BG.
• Saturday, August 3 - Ignore fracking protests, UK government tells planners.
• Saturday, August 3 - "Yesterday's fuel: why demand for oil will fall": Economist front cover.
• Friday, August 2 - Caudrilla sanctioned for trespassing during fracking surveys.
• Friday, August 2 - Republican Party out of touch with own voters on climate, poll shows.
• Friday, August 2 - "Despite boom, higher costs push Big Oil into slump."
• Thursday, August 1 - As much as 80% of Caribbean coral may have been lost in recent years.
• Thursday, August 1 - "Shale-boom profits bypass Big Oil": WSJ headline.
• Thursday, August 1 - "Time to renew interest in renewables?", Goldman Sachs asks.
• Thursday, August 1 - Incumbency fears grow as stranded carbon assets argument gains ground.
• Thursday, August 1 - Solar energy poised for renewed takeoff: Deutsche Bank.
• Thursday, August 1 - "Shell writedown is bad news for US shale": FT.
• Thursday, August 1 - Four Republican former EPA Administrators urge action on climate.
• Thursday, August 1 - Shell CEO: Shale outside US is overhyped, UK shale is not for us.
• Thursday, August 1 - US shale oil writedown cuts Shell's profits.
• Wednesday, July 31 - Coal faces a crippling demand roadblock: Goldman Sachs.
• Wednesday, July 31 - Why the peakists are right: latest from Richard Heinburg.
• Wednesday, July 31 - Study finds dangerous levels of arsenic in water near Texas gas drilling sites.
• Wednesday, July 31 - Howell says fracking would be fine in "desolate" north west.
• Wednesday, July 31 - "We have swung from oil panic to complacency on slender evidence."
• Wednesday, July 31 - US fracking industry wastes £1 billion a year in gas flaring.
• Tuesday, July 30 - EDF pulls out of nuclear in the US, citing shale gas.
• Tuesday, July 30 - Barclays contests FCA's conclusions about corruption in Qatari rescue deal.
• Monday, July 29 - Trial of Europe's largest battery begins in UK.
• Sunday, July 28 - Gas is a "gangplank to warming and away from clean energy investments".
• Saturday, July 27 - EU and China settle solar trade dispute to dissatisfaction of all.
• Friday, July 26 - Anti-fracking protestors arrested at Cuadrilla's Sussex oil drilling site.
• Friday, July 26 - Hot summer breaks solar energy records in UK and Germany.
• Friday, July 26 - Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying Macondo evidence.
• Friday, July 26 - The blackout rationale for starting to develop microgrids now.
• Thursday, July 25 - "Rapid thawing of the Arctic could trigger an economic timebomb".
• Wednesday, July 24 - "Peak oil isn't dead; it just smells that way."
• Wednesday, July 24 - EIB and World Bank stop financing most coal-fired power plants.
• Wednesday, July 24 - First institutionally-backed solar fund begins trading.
• Tuesday, July 23 - Tepco sits on bad news yet again.
• Tuesday, July 23 - A new first: EU utility writes down asset values citing market problems.
• Tuesday, July 23 - EU tariffs are ending the era of low-cost Chinese solar modules.
• Tuesday, July 23 - Cuadrilla prepares to drill for oil in Sussex.
• Tuesday, July 23 - 5 of UK Big 6 energy companies drop green tariffs.
• Monday, July 22 - Incumbency triumphalism about the "death" of peak oil rolls on.
• Monday, July 22 - Peak oil "receding" message reaches the BBC TV News.
• Monday, July 22 - Global temperatures continue their long-run rise: Met Office.
• Sunday, July 21 - US regulators may remove Wall Street banks' licence to trade oil & gas.
• Sunday, July 21 - Spain privatises the sun: taxes use of it, so making solar uneconomic.
• Friday, July 19 - 'Saudi America' "remains a Washington fantasy."
• Friday, July 19 - Cameron election strategist is a shale gas lobbyist.
• Friday, July 19 - George Osborne unveils 'most generous tax breaks in world' for fracking.
• Friday, July 19 - "Wall Street returns to era of big profits": FT.
• Thursday, July 18 - Most British worry more about peak oil than climate change.
• Tuesday, July 16 - Consumer group urges independent review needed of UK energy sector.
• Monday, July 15 - “They’ve got sugar-plum fairies dancing in their heads": Berman on gas.
• Monday, July 15 - BBC echoes "peak oil has gone on the back burner" messaging.
• Sunday, July 14 - China confirms goal for 35 GW of solar capacity by 2015.
• Friday, July 12 - Fossil fuel divestment can increase returns: Impax Asset Management.
• Friday, July 12 - UK Renewable Heat Incentive details announced at last.
• Thursday, July 11 - Japanese regulator urges Tepco to find source of radioactive leak.
• Thursday, July 11 - "How Carbon Tracker learnt to hunt down the Carbon Bubble."
• Wednesday, July 10 - "Something has to give" in fossil-fuel capex: Morgan Stanley.
• Wednesday, July 10 - German utility shuts down fossil-fires plants in face of renewable supply.
• Wednesday, July 10 - Pentland Firth tidal power "could provide half Scotland's electricity".
• Wednesday, July 10 - How the climate deniers funded by Google spin lies: an example.
• Tuesday, July 9 - "Peak oil's death has been greatly exaggerated."
• Tuesday, July 9 - Brazil faces huge challenges in developing pre-salt oil.
• Tuesday, July 9 - UK offshore wind power in "serious doubt".
• Tuesday, July 9 - Chinese air pollution from coal reduces life expectancy 5.5 years.
• Tuesday, July 9 - Google raises funds and donates to climate denier senator and lobbyists.
• Monday, July 8 - Obama advocates divestment in a speech on climate.
• Monday, July 8 - Kashagan to enter production by year end, 13 years after discovery.
• Monday, July 8 - 13 die as oil train explodes in Canadian town.
• Monday, July 8 - S&P argues in court that nobody should believe its ratings.
• Monday, July 8 - Storebrand ditches fossil fuel assets in pursuit of 'long term, stable returns'.
• Sunday, July 7 - Biggest ever study of ancient climate confirms hockey stick rise.
• Saturday, July 6 - Growing water crisis means threat to world food supply.
• Friday, July 5 - German solar companies Conergy and Gehrlicher enter insolvency.
• Thursday, July 4 - E.ON, RWE and Centrica join the Arctic oil and gas rush.
• Thursday, July 4 - "Regulators are finally closing in on banks."
• Thursday, July 4 - China well short of shale gas targets, casting doubt on future of resource.
• Wednesday, July 3 - "Half forecasted oil production would be stranded" under 2˚C policies.
• Monday, July 1 - The dangerous tribalism of energy-risk debates: the neuroscience view.
• Monday, July 1 - Rabobank says it will not finance shale extraction.
• Saturday, June 29 - Coal facing a 'structural decline', says W Australia Premier.
• Friday, June 28 - Shale boom is resurrecting US ship building.
• Thursday, June 27 - Maugeri: US on course to be the world's largest oil producer by 2017.
• Thursday, June 27 - British Geological Survey revises up its shale gas estimates.
• Thursday, June 27 - More uncertainty for solar industry as HMG announces strike prices.
• Thursday, June 27 - Europe spilt on shale-gas drilling.
• Thursday, June 27 - UK government gives EDF a $10bn subsidy.
• Thursday, June 27 - Ofgem warns danger rising of blackouts by mid-decade.
• Thursday, June 27 - National Grid calls on UK industry to curb peak electricity use.
• Thursday, June 27 - Green Deal failing as UK heads for missed 2020s emission targets.
• Tuesday, June 25 - Obama pledges to bypass Congress in fighting climate change.
• Monday, June 24 - As of end 2012, >230 German municipalities had founded own utilities.
• Monday, June 24 - "Solar power still better than nuclear in the fight against climate change."
• Monday, June 24 - China moves solar production overseas to avoid EU duties.
• Monday, June 24 - Parts of the world are becoming uninsurable: insurers claim.
• Sunday, June 23 - ‘Climate bomb’ warning over China coolant release.
• Friday, June 21 - "Why coal has to go". By former chair of Australian Coal Association.
• Friday, June 21 - EIA admits its global shale resource estimates are "highly uncertain".
• Thursday, June 20 - The pyschology of peak oil begs a positive solutions approach: Nelder.
• Thursday, June 20 - FT Alphaville suspects artificial scarcity in the oil markets.
• Thursday, June 20 - Australian coal industry warns of "radical campaign" to scare off investors.
• Wednesday, June 19 - BHP HQ, London, June 19th, 2013
• Wednesday, June 19 - UK Banking Commission recommends jailing bankers for recklessness.
• Tuesday, June 18 - Google's energy "moonshot factory" zeros in on tethered windpower.
• Monday, June 17 - Siemens to write off a billion euros in solar investment.
• Sunday, June 16 - 16 June: All Italy powered by renewables, German wholesale price negative.
• Sunday, June 16 - Australian government agency says coal must stay underground: a first.
• Saturday, June 15 - Reforms fail in gas giant's boardroom as institutionals investors fail to vote.
• Friday, June 14 - "Shale drillers squeeze costs as era of exploration ends": Bloomberg.
• Friday, June 14 - Pentagon & NSA bracing for public dissent over climate and energy shocks.
• Thursday, June 13 - 100 GW global renewables capacity of 1,470 GW as of 2102 was solar PV.
• Thursday, June 13 - Centrica tables £160m for Bowland shale fracking deal.
• Thursday, June 13 - 2.4 million quit UK banks in protest at lack of reforms.
• Wednesday, June 12 - Deaths from European coal air pollution on par with traffic accident deaths.
• Monday, June 10 - IEA: carbon bubble means 60-80% of coal will need to stay in the ground.
• Monday, June 10 - Oil pipeline from Iraqi Kurdistan to Turkey nears completion.
• Monday, June 10 - IEA: Wait for a climate agreement until 2020, and the world locks into 5˚C.
• Thursday, June 6 - CO2 equivalent now stands at 478 ppm, when 50 trace gases considered.
• Thursday, June 6 - US gas drillers buy out owners of polluted homes and gag them.
• Thursday, June 6 - "Solar wars threaten climate fight": Martin Khor in China Daily.
• Wednesday, June 5 - Polish PM threatens Ministers who might oppose shale gas exploration.
• Tuesday, June 4 - EC to impose solar duties of 11.8% on Chinese solar products from 6 June.
• Tuesday, June 4 - UK MoD study flags imminent peak "easy" oil, and $500 oil by 2040.
• Tuesday, June 4 - UK parliament votes against 2030 electricity decarbonisation target.
• Tuesday, June 4 - SolarAid wins £500k in Google Challenge.
• Monday, June 3 - Rio Tinto seeks to exit $3bn of Australian coal assets.
• Sunday, June 2 - World is heading for another financial crisis: FT columnist John Kay.
• Saturday, June 1 - BC rejects tar-sands pipeline to west coast.
• Saturday, June 1 - "The beginning of the end for coal": Bernstein Research.
• Friday, May 31 - "This madness is easily fixable, in principle." Thoughts on solar trade war.
• Thursday, May 30 - "The sheer scale of the reserves within listed oil that might be unburnable."
• Wednesday, May 29 - Two thirds of $170 bn 2012 global natural disaster loss in US.
• Wednesday, May 29 - Shale boom likely to be temporary, says successful oil trader.
• Monday, May 27 - Big 6 urge government to back gas.
• Friday, May 24 - Big energy companies held back UK gas supplies to increase price.
• Wednesday, May 22 - UK Institute of Directors signs up for shale-gas nirvana: a new North Sea.
• Wednesday, May 22 - FTSE 100 close to its all-time high.
• Wednesday, May 22 - IMF warns UK that austerity won't work.
• Wednesday, May 22 - Solar = random desecration of the countryside: comedian.
• Tuesday, May 21 - China announces rules for its first carbon trading exchange.
• Friday, May 17 - US government approves second LNG export facility.
• Thursday, May 16 - "The concept of a carbon bubble has gone mainstream": WSJ.
• Thursday, May 16 - First carbon bubble resolution wins strong support at Consol Energy AGM.
• Thursday, May 16 - SolarAid wins a Guardian Sustainable Business Award.
• Thursday, May 16 - Majority of investors now interested in fossil-fuel-free portfolios.
• Thursday, May 16 - US fracking rules met with anger by environmentalists.
• Wednesday, May 15 - "The IEA says peak oil is dead – that's bad news for climate-policy."
• Thursday, May 9 - UK shale gas drillers confirm they will flare methane.
• Thursday, May 9 - European Commission recommends tariffs up to 67% on Chinese solar.
• Wednesday, May 8 - Shell presses ahead with world's deepest offshore oil well.
• Wednesday, May 8 - Oxford alumni condemn choice of Shell to fund earth sciences lab.
• Tuesday, May 7 - "Call a truce in the no-winners solar war."
• Monday, May 6 - EDF CEO ready to quit if he can't get his way with Hinkley Point reactor..
• Sunday, May 5 - EU trade commissioner favours 40% tariffs on Chinese solar panel imports.
• Saturday, May 4 - "Neither public policies nor markets reflect the risks of a warmer world".
• Friday, May 3 - Bet on Obama backing the Keystone XL pipeline: John Dizard.
• Thursday, May 2 - Shanghai, May 2nd 2013
• Wednesday, May 1 - The vital role of foundations in the retreat from fossil fuels.
• Wednesday, May 1 - Energy storage one of 12 technologies to disrupt the status-quo: McKinsey.
• Tuesday, April 30 - Saudi minister: we do not plan to lift production before 2040.
• Tuesday, April 30 - Three years on from Deepwater Horizon, BP faces 2,200 lawsuits.
• Tuesday, April 30 - FERC Chairman: Solar roofs help a US grid vulnerable to terrorist attack.
• Tuesday, April 30 - "A crisis in UK energy policy looks inevitable": Liberium Capital report.
• Monday, April 29 - UK uncertain how to deal with its 100 tonnes of Plutonium.
• Monday, April 29 - US crude oil exports rise sharply.
• Monday, April 29 - Mosaic rolls out its third solar crowdfunding offer.
• Monday, April 29 - US solar company & Taiwanese manufacturer partner in Mexico.
• Monday, April 29 - Top official working on EMR resigns as analyst warns HMG off gas reliance.
• Monday, April 29 - Scant evidence that US gas will stop growing oil demand: FT Alphaville.
• Monday, April 29 - Atmospheric CO2 concentration very near 400 ppm.
• Sunday, April 28 - BGS told by Treasury to redo disappointing report on shale resources.
• Sunday, April 28 - Australian coal asset value could implode: Carbon Tracker.
• Thursday, April 25 - US cities join 350.org fossil-fuel divestment campaign.
• Thursday, April 25 - Exxon's oil and gas production falls.
• Thursday, April 25 - Global solar PV industry became a net electricity producer in 2012.
• Wednesday, April 24 - Caudrilla censured by ASA over fracking claims.
• Wednesday, April 24 - UK government's climate advisors say gas dash blocks renewables.
• Wednesday, April 24 - Anonymous donations for solar projects grow across the US.
• Tuesday, April 23 - Shell admits shale exploitation will be much slower outside the US.
• Monday, April 22 - Google criticises US utilities for not providing renewable energy direct.
• Monday, April 22 - As cities drown in smog, China gets ever more serious about renewables.
• Monday, April 22 - Saudi Arabia partners with US lab in kingdom's solar plan.
• Monday, April 22 - ABB places a billion dollar bet on a solar upturn.
• Sunday, April 21 - UK energy prices: most inflation is not due to green energy, but gas.
• Sunday, April 21 - Report urges use of gas to avoid UK energy crunch.
• Saturday, April 20 - Two minutes that I hope might begin turning the climate tide.
• Friday, April 19 - "How your pension is being used in a $6 trillion gamble."
• Thursday, April 18 - EDF may let UK nuclear talks fail.
• Thursday, April 18 - Carbon bubble 'creates global economic risk'.
• Thursday, April 18 - Clean energy investments at lowest level for four years.
• Wednesday, April 17 - “The drive to clean up the world’s energy system has stalled": IEA.
• Wednesday, April 17 - In Google searches, fracking leaps, and peak oil plunges.
• Tuesday, April 16 - Antarctic summer ice melting is at its fastest in 1,000 years.
• Tuesday, April 16 - MEPs reject key reform of EU emissions trading scheme.
• Monday, April 15 - Centrica buys into Canadian fracked gas potential.
• Monday, April 15 - Utica Shale disappoints as a tight oil prospect.
• Friday, April 12 - Support for new UK nuclear slips as indecision mounts.
• Friday, April 12 - Big 6 take average £95 profit per household on dual bills.
• Thursday, April 11 - Bill McKibben describes "a new resistance" to fossil fuels.
• Thursday, April 11 - Why is Warren Buffett investing in solar? Because he sees the future.
• Thursday, April 11 - Wind prices fall, but like solar, margins are too low.
• Tuesday, April 9 - Over 1,000 solar firms demand end to EU-China trade war.
• Tuesday, April 9 - One in five UK households now in debt to their energy supplier.
• Tuesday, April 9 - London Array becomes world's largest wind farm.
• Tuesday, April 9 - PGC hikes US gas resource estimate by >25%.
• Monday, April 8 - For Iraq War cost, US electricity could now be 40% wind and solar.
• Monday, April 8 - EDF "in big trouble", French nuclear expert tells BBC: owes €39 bn.
• Monday, April 8 - Solar Mosaic approved to offer $100m solar investment.
• Sunday, April 7 - Despite everything we know, we burn more fossil fuels than ever before.
• Sunday, April 7 - Arctic melting is turning the jet stream sluggish: and weird weather results.
• Saturday, April 6 - "Solar lanterns replace kerosene killers in Africa": ABC Radio.
• Saturday, April 6 - "List of Deceased Solar Companies: …sad inevitable result of VC bubble".
• Saturday, April 6 - MPs and academics call for NAO to review UK nuclear negotiations.
• Saturday, April 6 - Investor nerves rise in EU over threats to support for renewables.
• Friday, April 5 - Shell and Gazprom join forces to exploit Siberian tight oil.
• Thursday, April 4 - NASA's Hansen on Obama and the tar pipeline: he must act.
• Wednesday, April 3 - Air pollution hits record levels in Beijing and other Chinese cities.
• Wednesday, April 3 - Brands pioneering 'net-positive' goals: a progress report.
• Tuesday, April 2 - Japan plans radical electricity market shakeup. Only 2 reactors online.
• Monday, April 1 - Further profit erosion in the tar sands: Suncor scraps upgrader plant.
• Monday, April 1 - Analysts question sustainability of US shale gas in Salon interviews.
• Monday, April 1 - Citi predicts end of oil demand growth this decade.
• Thursday, March 28 - Total takes $1.65 bn loss on a tar sands project as margins "disappear".
• Thursday, March 28 - Enough Scottish renewable electricity in 2012 to power all homes.
• Thursday, March 28 - UK 2012 CO2 emissions up 4.5% due to coal increase.
• Wednesday, March 27 - Centrica bosses splits £16m pay pot as bills soar.
• Wednesday, March 27 - 1999 climate model forecasts 10 years real global warming almost exactly.
• Wednesday, March 27 - Chinese growth in solar PV dominates 2012 league table of EPCs.
• Wednesday, March 27 - UK government claims climate policies lower energy bills.
• Wednesday, March 27 - Renewable energy providers to pay back-up costs for UK nuclear.
• Tuesday, March 26 - China warns EU of retaliation in solar trade war.
• Tuesday, March 26 - UK government now has 2030 as target for new nuclear.
• Monday, March 25 - Centrica deal: 1.8m UK homes to be heated by US shale gas within 5 years.
• Monday, March 25 - Scientists link frozen spring to Arctic ice melting.
• Saturday, March 23 - Bergen City Council proposes pension fund sell major carbon holdings.
• Saturday, March 23 - Bergen City Council considers proposal to sell fossil fuel shares.
• Saturday, March 23 - Biggest power supplier to US utilities goes "solar direct."
• Friday, March 22 - Former Suntech CEO and founder under investigation in China.
• Friday, March 22 - From destitution to one of China's richest men, via solar. And next?
• Friday, March 22 - Growth in Chinese wind eclipses coal growth.
• Friday, March 22 - UK gas price soars as vital pipeline connection is lost.
• Friday, March 22 - "Peak oil 'theorists' dying out, like the Flat Earth Society."
• Thursday, March 21 - BP teams up with Rosneft for Arctic and tight oil exploitation.
• Thursday, March 21 - SSE warns of blackouts within 3 years as gas plants close.
• Thursday, March 21 - UK gas supplies could run out next month after cold March.
• Wednesday, March 20 - Shell and others entrain NGOs in advocacy of shale gas.
• Wednesday, March 20 - 54% of Big Oil capex may simply go on maintenance to slow declines.
• Wednesday, March 20 - Shell and Chevron team up with environment group to promote shale.
• Wednesday, March 20 - UK nuclear subsidies flout EU rules, lawyers say.
• Wednesday, March 20 - Osborne announces subsidies for shale gas in UK budget.
• Tuesday, March 19 - EDF gets UK nuclear planning go ahead.
• Monday, March 18 - Minister echoes Cuadrilla: fracking communities should get "incentives".
• Monday, March 18 - Use gas, including fracked gas, to replace coal: Grantham Institute.
• Sunday, March 17 - Climate change dropped from UK national curriculum up to age 14.
• Friday, March 15 - Solar companies rush to install UK solar before scheduled subsidy cut.
• Thursday, March 14 - Giant Chinese solar company Suntech bought / bailed out by state.
• Thursday, March 14 - Caudrilla halts operations at one of its three UK sites / faces DECC censure.
• Thursday, March 14 - BoE warns private equity crash could trigger next wave of financial crisis.
• Wednesday, March 13 - New York state could be 100% renewable power by 2030: Jacobson study.
• Wednesday, March 13 - Gas plants shutting across Europe in face of demand drop, cheap coal, RE.
• Wednesday, March 13 - Renewables markets expand to 19% of new global generation.
• Wednesday, March 13 - EDF drops civil lawsuit against activists in face of public pressure.
• Tuesday, March 12 - Lord Browne: we will invest "whatever it takes" in the dash for gas.
• Tuesday, March 12 - Japanese company: we could be producing methane-hydrate gas by 2016.
• Monday, March 11 - Global solar PV market expected to grow by only 7% in 2103.
• Monday, March 11 - Crowdfunding "coming of age" for cleantech start ups.
• Sunday, March 10 - Average oil price so far in 2013 is $114. >2012, >2011, >2008.
• Saturday, March 9 - BP reserves replacement ratio excluding TNK-BP just 6% for 2012.
• Friday, March 8 - Second highest annual rate of CO2 rise recorded in 2012.
• Thursday, March 7 - Rosneft seals $10bn from Glencore & Vitol for TNK-BP buyout.
• Thursday, March 7 - Carbon bubble means business models of tar sands co's at risk: S&P.
• Thursday, March 7 - Bank of England decides against further QE.
• Wednesday, March 6 - Former BP boss takes chair of gas to liquids company.
• Monday, March 4 - "Peak oil doomsayers proved wrong": David Frum on CNN.
• Monday, March 4 - China overtakes US as world's largest oil importer.
• Monday, March 4 - London banks consider suing EU over bonus cap.
• Sunday, March 3 - Treasury kills off pan-government resource depletion study.
• Friday, March 1 - French police search the office of EDF's CEO in German shares probe.
• Thursday, February 28 - Solar lanterns on the verge of mainstream acceptance in Africa.
• Thursday, February 28 - Peak oil: gone for now but celebrations will be short lived": oilprice.com.
• Thursday, February 28 - Shale gas lobbyist urges UK companies to disclose use of all chemicals.
• Thursday, February 28 - 4 years after exiting solar, Shell sees it as world's biggest energy source.
• Thursday, February 28 - Environmental concern at lowest level for 20 years in multiple countries.
• Thursday, February 28 - EU Parliament agrees to cap bankers' bonuses.
• Wednesday, February 27 - US shale gas boom will last for decades, says report co-led by BP advisor.
• Wednesday, February 27 - Shell puts Arctic operations on ice.
• Wednesday, February 27 - Operator of delayed Olkiluoto reactor is running out cash.
• Monday, February 25 - BP's drillers wrote of "chaos" and "insanity" drilling Macondo well.
• Sunday, February 24 - BP opts for Deepwater trial, refusing a $16bn settlement deal with DoJ.
• Saturday, February 23 - Shell lobbies to book unconventional oil and gas reserves.
• Friday, February 22 - Moody's downgrades the UK's triple A rating.
• Thursday, February 21 - 6˚C of global warming capitalised by uncontrolled finance: it can't last.
• Wednesday, February 20 - We can still stay
• Wednesday, February 20 - Renewables provide all new US generating capacity in January 2013.
• Wednesday, February 20 - RWE boss warns UK government against nuclear subsidies (for EDF).
• Wednesday, February 20 - EDF sues anti-gas campaigners for £5m, assisted by UK police.
• Tuesday, February 19 - E.ON lobbied for long sentences for climate protestors, or else.
• Tuesday, February 19 - Warning of massive job losses if EU opts for tariffs on Chinese solar.
• Tuesday, February 19 - UK energy supplies heading downhill fast, warns Ofgem.
• Tuesday, February 19 - EDF confirms it is pressuring UK ministers for 40 year subsidies.
• Monday, February 18 - UK government offers nuclear subsidies for 40 years.
• Sunday, February 17 - Largest climate protest in US history pressures Obama to reject tar pipeline.
• Friday, February 15 - Residential solar now a billion dollar market in California.
• Thursday, February 14 - Solar PV installations in UK pass 2 GW.
• Thursday, February 14 - US conservatives use secretive fund to create vast climate denier network.
• Wednesday, February 13 - Obama issues Congress with ultimatum: back me on climate or I go it alone.
• Tuesday, February 12 - 100 GW of solar PV now installed in the world.
• Tuesday, February 12 - Macquarie: solar rooftop juggernaut may be unstoppable.
• Monday, February 11 - Delay to Areva's Finnish reactor extends to 2016: 7 years.
• Monday, February 11 - Solar trade disputes could create separate market zones.
• Monday, February 11 - EDF asks for UK government funding for new nuclear.
• Monday, February 11 - Scotland's 100% renewables target by 2020 unviable without UK: study.
• Saturday, February 9 - US Army Colonel in plea to countrymen to wake up on oil depletion.
• Friday, February 8 - Bankers say they are close to securitisation of cash flows from solar.
• Thursday, February 7 - Renewable energy now cheaper than new fossil in Australia.
• Thursday, February 7 - UK local authority pension fund agrees £12m loan for solar farm co-op.
• Thursday, February 7 - Now solar industry faces a US-India trade dispute.
• Thursday, February 7 - Fox News: solar in the US is kaput because it isn't as sunny as Germany.
• Wednesday, February 6 - The myth of “Saudi America”: geologists speak out at the AGU.
• Wednesday, February 6 - China flags peak in coal use close to today's level.
• Wednesday, February 6 - IEA boss writes of legislative "threat" that "could turn US oil boom to bust."
• Tuesday, February 5 - EDF CEO: we'll walk away from UK plan unless they guarantee profit.
• Monday, February 4 - Centrica pulls out of UK nuclear, writing off £200m.
• Monday, February 4 - US DoJ to sue a ratings agency over 2007 MBS ratings.
• Monday, February 4 - UK PM: "We can make Britain a global showcase for green innovation."
• Monday, February 4 - "The true data show that fossil fuels will soon peak": Jean Laherrere.
• Monday, February 4 - More electricity from wind than any other source in Spain for first time.
• Monday, February 4 - Suspect fraud in JP Morgan's off-balance-sheet practices, former exec says.
• Sunday, February 3 - Germany: UK risks being an "island of hedge funds" under Cameron.
• Sunday, February 3 - US shale gas boom is sparking an EU coal revival and hiking emissions.
• Sunday, February 3 - UK study for DoT shows trains could run 600 miles on a single charge.
• Friday, February 1 - The exciting course of Germany's Energiewende: 12 insights.
• Friday, February 1 - Is the US natural gas market in the process of being destroyed?
• Thursday, January 31 - Shell has yet to drill a single well in the Arctic and may not in 2013.
• Thursday, January 31 - MPs accuse Big 4 accountants of "undermining society."
• Thursday, January 31 - Yet another claim on banks: mis-selling of SME insurance.
• Thursday, January 31 - FSA & Serious Fraud Office investigate Barclays over 2008 Qatar bailout.
• Wednesday, January 30 - Investors force out gas giant's CEO as shale gas story clouds.
• Tuesday, January 29 - A renewables revolution despite civil war in energy markets? Possible.
• Monday, January 28 - UK Green Deal gives no guarantee of saving participants money.
• Sunday, January 27 - Davos mulls whether fracking is the next big idea.
• Sunday, January 27 - US shale oil boom flares so much gas it can been seen from space.
• Saturday, January 26 - Stern: I got it wrong. Climate change is "far, far, worse" than I said.
• Thursday, January 24 - ETS carbon price crashes to new low as committee votes down rescue.
• Thursday, January 24 - Senate majority urges Obama to approve Keystone XL pipeline.
• Wednesday, January 23 - Widespread concern about outlook for global economy in Davos.
• Wednesday, January 23 - Solar companies sue UK government for feed-in tariff damages.
• Tuesday, January 22 - Spiralling nuclear costs at EDF threaten dividend.
• Monday, January 21 - "Four factors bringing down the curtain on global growth": Tullett Prebon.
• Monday, January 21 - Obama majors on climate change in his inauguration speech.
• Sunday, January 20 - Oil industry reviews security after terrorists kill 18 in Algerian gas plant.
• Friday, January 18 - IEA on oil: “All of a sudden, the market looks tighter than we thought."
• Friday, January 18 - Fed officials initially thought the credit crunch was a good thing.
• Friday, January 18 - Amazon rainforest drought degradation becomes visible.
• Wednesday, January 16 - BP CEO: peak oil theories "increasingly groundless."
• Wednesday, January 16 - BP: all net growth in global oil supply to 2020 will be unconventional oil.
• Wednesday, January 16 - 2012 in top ten warmest-ever years. Each 21st century year in top 14.
• Tuesday, January 15 - US National Climate Assessment paints a grim picture of the future.
• Tuesday, January 15 - Saudi Arabia cuts production to reflect new pattern of global demand.
• Tuesday, January 15 - Its renewables or catastrophe very soon, Francois Hollande says.
• Tuesday, January 15 - "You can power the world this way": a short film on Open Energy.
• Monday, January 14 - Australia suffers record wildfires in record heatwave.
• Monday, January 14 - SSE CEO doubts UK energy bill will keep the lights on.
• Sunday, January 13 - New research tries to quantify crop losses as heatwaves proliferate.
• Sunday, January 13 - Record air pollution in Beijing 30 times safety limits.
• Sunday, January 13 - Tough regulation slows Arctic drilling to a glacial pace.
• Friday, January 11 - Fukushima 50: 'We felt like kamikaze pilots'.
• Friday, January 11 - New Japanese government seeks to reverse nuclear phase out.
• Thursday, January 10 - China announces 49 GW of renewables in 2013. Solar stocks soar.
• Monday, January 7 - Solar Mosaic launches solar crowdfunding site. All on offer goes in 24 hours.
• Monday, January 7 - 70 US NGOs urge Obama to deliver on climate change in second term.
• Sunday, January 6 - Basle bank liquidity rules watered down after intense lobbying by banks.
• Friday, January 4 - As US solar rooftop installations soar, Solarcity expects 60% growth in 2013.
• Friday, January 4 - Extreme 2012 weather cost UK economy billions, and will be new norm.
• Friday, January 4 - Abramovich invests in UK gas-to-liquids.
• Wednesday, January 2 - New prediction that Russian production cannot keep up with demand.
• Wednesday, January 2 - Shell's Arctic setbacks: one thing after the other.
• Wednesday, January 2 - US fiscal cliff deal lifts global equities past any 2012 level.
• Wednesday, January 2 - Buffett solar company buys half a gigawatt of solar PV farms.

2012 (421)

• Monday, December 31 - As US fracking moves into suburbia, Tulsa bans it within city limits.
• Sunday, December 30 - Opec nets a trillion dollars on an average annual oil price of $111.
• Sunday, December 30 - Many Big Energy staff still working in UK climate ministry.
• Saturday, December 29 - US rooftop solar is cheaper, but the federal dollars go to the big plants.
• Saturday, December 29 - Ethical sales in UK rose in 2012 despite the recession.
• Friday, December 28 - Glencore CEO seals "deal of the year" in 2012: FT.
• Friday, December 28 - French government opens audit investigation of EDF's foreign dealings.
• Friday, December 28 - Oil industry leader talks up UK's potential to be a "fracking hub."
• Thursday, December 27 - Update of UK Renewables Roadmap includes solar PV as a key technology.
• Sunday, December 23 - "Banking's year of shame ends in a blizzard of Libor revelations."
• Sunday, December 23 - "Bank rate-fixing scandals expose the rotten heart of capitalism."
• Saturday, December 22 - Thousands desert the Big Five UK banks in anger.
• Friday, December 21 - "Markets peer over the fiscal cliff": FT.
• Thursday, December 20 - Record UBS Libor fine "unlikely to be the end."
• Thursday, December 20 - "SolarCity's IPO means PV's new kids are in town."
• Tuesday, December 18 - China bails out its solar sector. Shares of Chinese solar companies soar.
• Tuesday, December 18 - "Asia's insatiable demand for coal plays havoc with climate goals".
• Monday, December 17 - Clean energy co-ops being formed in Germany one every two days.
• Monday, December 17 - Peer-to-peer & crowdfunding boom could make banks obsolete: BoE.
• Monday, December 17 - 300,000 more Britons fall into fuel poverty.
• Sunday, December 16 - Bankers call for relaxation of safety rules.
• Sunday, December 16 - Insurers resist regulatory efforts to deconstruct "too big to fail" risk.
• Friday, December 14 - UK shale gas illusion heading for a fall: ODAC summary.
• Friday, December 14 - Solarcity cuts share price offer, and shares rise on first day of trading.
• Thursday, December 13 - UK government gives green light to fracking.
• Wednesday, December 12 - "Next year could see markets start to wake up to a proper carbon bubble."
• Tuesday, December 11 - Total now sees a plateau of oil production at 98 mbd.
• Tuesday, December 11 - Saudis drop oil production as US shale oil production rises.
• Sunday, December 9 - "Renewables and gas likely to power UK future": FT.
• Saturday, December 8 - Doha climate deal clears way for "loss and damage" aid to poor nations.
• Friday, December 7 - EDF breaks pledge to make Hinkley investment decision in 2012.
• Friday, December 7 - Saudi Arabia to spend $100bn on renewables, mostly solar.
• Thursday, December 6 - "Former chief of FSA poised to take senior role at Barclays."
• Wednesday, December 5 - Le Monde publishes graph of French new nuclear costs and delays.
• Wednesday, December 5 - Big energy warns Osborne push still does not make gas economics stack up.
• Wednesday, December 5 - 180 solar manufacturing firms set to merge or fold, analysts expect.
• Wednesday, December 5 - World food prices will more than double if climate change is not checked.
• Tuesday, December 4 - "70,000 more jobs and £20bn more GDP with offshore wind than gas."
• Tuesday, December 4 - LNG tanker becomes first of its kind to steam across the Arctic.
• Tuesday, December 4 - "Last 24 hours have 'killed' French nuclear": UBS analyst.
• Tuesday, December 4 - SolarAid launches its second crowdfunding project with partner Sunfunder.
• Monday, December 3 - EDF's flagship nuclear reactor costs rise to ¢8.5bn.
• Monday, December 3 - "Chancellor backs gas to fire up Britain": FT.
• Sunday, December 2 - "Global gas push stalls": major non-US production could be a decade away.
• Thursday, November 29 - Solar in UK energy bill: investment-critical decision still pending.
• Thursday, November 29 - Ice melted from Greenland Antarctica in past 20 years? >4 trillion tonnes.
• Thursday, November 29 - Bank of England fears that financial system needs more capital.
• Thursday, November 29 - UK wind industry says energy bill will "fire up" renewables.
• Thursday, November 29 - UK energy bill detail delay will stall renewables, campaigners say.
• Wednesday, November 28 - UK media is ‘anti-renewables’ & neglects renewables industry voice.
• Wednesday, November 28 - What does a renaissance solar lighting company look like?
• Wednesday, November 28 - US brands embrace solar in an increasingly big way.
• Wednesday, November 28 - Senior DECC officials wined & dined by nuclear industry repeatedly.
• Wednesday, November 28 - BP banned from US federal contracts for "lack of business integrity."
• Tuesday, November 27 - 'Independent' Green Deal regulator is owned by the Big 6 energy firms.
• Tuesday, November 27 - Solarcity seeks $151m in first solar installer IPO.
• Monday, November 26 - US claims "enormous efforts" on climate change, including fracking gas.
• Friday, November 23 - First-ever publicly listed UK solar bond bought by a pension fund.
• Friday, November 23 - $300m raised of $3.6bn needed to keep oil underground in Ecuador.
• Friday, November 23 - UK energy bill: no 2030 decarbonisation target, no funds for energy efficiency.
• Friday, November 23 - Bundeswehr on peak oil: "Psychological barriers cause indisputable facts to be blanked out."
• Friday, November 23 - The EU, with 2020 climate targets already met, enters Doha climate talks facing 8 years of inaction.
• Friday, November 23 - The UK energy bill is a (losing) "£200bn bet on our energy future."
• Thursday, November 22 - Jeff Rubin: Why shale oil won’t save you at the pumps.
• Wednesday, November 21 - "The UK energy bill is all about nuclear subsidy."
• Wednesday, November 14 - Grantham to climate scientists: "Be persuasive. Be brave. Be arrested (if necessary)."
• Wednesday, November 14 - Greenpeace undercover team exposes Tory plot to retreat from Climate Act.
• Wednesday, November 14 - Obama addresses climate change in first press conference since re-election..
• Tuesday, November 13 - "Our reign as oil king likely to be very short": Houston Chronicle.
• Tuesday, November 13 - FSA probes Libor-like price fixing in UK gas market.
• Tuesday, November 13 - Manipulation of oil markets is systemic, says former regulator.
• Tuesday, November 13 - Whistleblowers come forward to say UK electricity markets are being rigged too.
• Monday, November 12 - IEA WEO 2012: $125 oil in 2035 at nearly 100 mbd: "peak oilers" doubtful.
• Monday, November 12 - IEA: US to be come world's top gas producer and top oil producer.
• Monday, November 12 - The US shale gas / oil boom will not necessarily stay on course.
• Monday, November 12 - Centrica and RWE urge UK government to drop green electricity target.
• Sunday, November 11 - Tokelau becomes 100% solar powered.
• Saturday, November 10 - Why the oil industry today is like banking was in 2006: NEF. "Economic" peak oil by 2014/15.
• Friday, November 9 - US Marine General: renewables are vital for national security.
• Thursday, November 8 - Climate change "likely to be more severe than some models predict": NCAR.
• Tuesday, November 6 - De Boer says the 2013 IPCC report will "shock nations into action."
• Tuesday, November 6 - Moody's warns utilities of credit risk from rise of renewables.
• Monday, November 5 - PWC warns the world is on track for >6 degrees C warming by 2100.
• Sunday, November 4 - "Companies with assets in energy may be storing up trouble for investors."
• Sunday, November 4 - Investors ask government for UK energy subsidy transparency.
• Saturday, November 3 - One Norwegian pension fund holds more carbon than global 2˚C budget.
• Thursday, November 1 - Bloomberg backs Obama because “Its global warming, Stupid!”
• Thursday, November 1 - Chesapeake debt rises to >$16bn, and gas reserves are written down.
• Thursday, November 1 - China extends solar trade war to EU polysilicon exports.
• Thursday, November 1 - Barclays faces record fine for manipulating US electricity market.
• Wednesday, October 31 - Oil traders in two very different camps on where price is headed.
• Wednesday, October 31 - Bill Clinton uses Hurricane Sandy to inject climate into the election.
• Tuesday, October 30 - Sky Solar, a solar PV developer, gets $1.6bn credit line from China Development Bank.
• Tuesday, October 30 - Hitachi buys Horizon and starts a "100 year commitment" to UK nuclear.
• Tuesday, October 30 - Carbon-bubble risk might strand Glencore-Xstrata "assets", I warn in the FT.
• Tuesday, October 30 - Thirteen foot storm surge hits Manhattan.
• Monday, October 29 - More evidence that solar panels are "contagious."
• Monday, October 29 - Investment in energy sector now highest in the UK economy: mostly renewables.
• Monday, October 29 - Shale gas simply exports expanding coal use elsewhere.
• Monday, October 29 - Megastorm shuts down DC, causes partial NYC evacuation, and disrupts US Presidential election.
• Monday, October 29 - "UK exposed to gas supply crunch": FT.
• Monday, October 29 - Protestors occupy UK gas power plant.
• Monday, October 29 - Diamond to face court over Libor.
• Sunday, October 28 - "Barclays Libor case could have severe consequences for banks."
• Sunday, October 28 - If oil production shrinks fast, GDP impact models don't work: IMF.
• Friday, October 26 - Full bank breakup may be necessary, says Bank of England.
• Friday, October 26 - Occupy Movement right about the financial crisis, says a BoE boss.
• Friday, October 26 - BP drops cellulosic ethanol biofuels plant.
• Thursday, October 25 - It’s time for DECC to finally drop its anti PV mind-set.
• Wednesday, October 24 - Methane hydrate destabilisation probably widespread, scientists report.
• Wednesday, October 24 - China restarts its nuclear programme with "only a few" reactors.
• Tuesday, October 23 - Polls show huge UK preference for renewables over shale gas.
• Tuesday, October 23 - Ikea plans for renewable self-sufficiency by 2020.
• Tuesday, October 23 - Solarcentury welcomes the call for a conventional power moratorium.
• Tuesday, October 23 - Trio of top scientists calls for a moratorium on new conventional power.
• Tuesday, October 23 - Rosneft buys BP’s stake in BP-TNK for $55bn.
• Tuesday, October 23 - EDF says it will not build UK nuclear plants without major subsidy.
• Monday, October 22 - Chinese protestors clash with police over new coal plant.
• Monday, October 22 - UK government is considering an open cheque to nuclear industry.
• Sunday, October 21 - Fund managers to pressure oil sands operators.
• Saturday, October 20 - US gas glut: "much pain for exploration companies and investors."
• Friday, October 19 - Saudi Arabia airs plan to be 100% powered by renewables and other low carbon energy.
• Tuesday, October 16 - The UK "nuclear cuckoo" would suck up all the levy on bills, squeezing out renewables.
• Sunday, October 14 - My idea for solving the solar trade war, based on common security.
• Wednesday, October 10 - US Commerce decided final tariffs on Chinese cell and module makers.
• Wednesday, October 10 - "Rising food prices are climate change's first tangible bite into UK lives."
• Wednesday, October 10 - UN warns of rising food costs after a year of extreme weather.
• Tuesday, October 9 - "Why you need to worry about how the media covers climate change."
• Monday, October 8 - Osborne says he intends generous subsidies for fracking.
• Friday, October 5 - UK blackouts possible as coal comes offline, Ofgem warns.
• Friday, October 5 - Greek PM: democracy now under threat.
• Thursday, October 4 - "Some big names will fall before solar surges back to life – but the rebound will surely happen."
• Wednesday, October 3 - Areva and Chinese partner pull out of UK nuclear bids.
• Tuesday, October 2 - US voters on both sides favour solar: 92% want more.
• Monday, October 1 - 50 months: Open letter on the climate crisis and the carbon incumbency.
• Monday, October 1 - ‘The Climate Clock is Ticking. Normal isn't Working. What Should We Do Differently?’
• Monday, October 1 - Great Barrier Reef has lost half its coral in last quarter century.
• Friday, September 28 - "UK shale gas is more lead balloon than silver bullet."
• Friday, September 28 - FSA boss: LIBOR riggers should be jailed.
• Thursday, September 27 - Gazprom, "Kremlin's main slush fund", is in crisis, "casting show over Putin."
• Wednesday, September 26 - Climate change is already wiping 1.6% pa off global GDP.
• Wednesday, September 26 - IMF: global economy at just as much risk of crash as before crash.
• Tuesday, September 25 - BBA stripped of its LIBOR-setting role in wake of scandal.
• Tuesday, September 25 - EPIA report concludes that PV will be 15% of the EU’s electricity mix by 2030.
• Tuesday, September 25 - Enough solar installed in EU now to power Austria.
• Tuesday, September 25 - Poll shows majority of undecided US voters worry about climate change and want renewables.
• Tuesday, September 25 - Shale gas "will not transform the UK economy."
• Tuesday, September 25 - Total CEO says risk of Arctic oil spill is too high to warrant drilling.
• Sunday, September 23 - Climate change treatment in the US media feeds low level of concern.
• Friday, September 21 - Profits for coal set to rise, and more to be built, as era of free EU carbon permits ends.
• Thursday, September 20 - UK MPs demand moratorium on Arctic drilling, propose unlimited liability.
• Thursday, September 20 - Oil industry fights to keep drilling in face of public protest in Pennsylvania.
• Wednesday, September 19 - “In 10 years, history won’t look too favourably at the oil industry”.
• Tuesday, September 18 - Saudis offer refiners extra oil in effort to cool $117 price.
• Monday, September 17 - Bank data show solar is the most important “non essential” factor in buying a house.
• Monday, September 17 - UK’s top ice expert: final collapse of Arctic ice cap within four years.
• Monday, September 17 - John Browne: costly subsidies for renewables & the great prize of shale gas.
• Sunday, September 16 - Saudi Gazette on Citi report: we will combat domestic oil consumption with solar and nuclear.
• Friday, September 14 - Japan announces nuclear phase out within 30 years.
• Friday, September 14 - UK windfarms generate record of >10% national electricity supply.
• Friday, September 14 - Record Arctic ice loss prompts warnings that climate change is accelerating.
• Wednesday, September 12 - Vickers Review: banks get until 2019 to ringfence high street operations.
• Monday, September 10 - UK solar industry protests proposed cuts to solar farm subsidies.
• Sunday, September 9 - Shell slammed for scant testing of crucial Arctic spill containment equipment.
• Friday, September 7 - "The oil & gas industry is showing signs of terminal equity disease."
• Thursday, September 6 - EU starts its most signficant anti-dumping investigation ever: on solar.
• Wednesday, September 5 - UK is sleepwalking into an oil crunch: Telegraph International Business Editor.
• Wednesday, September 5 - Citi report on shrinking Saudi exports "has huge implications for global economy."
• Tuesday, September 4 - Saudi Arabia risks becoming oil importer within 20 years: Citi.
• Friday, August 31 - US gas groups heading for reserves write downs.
• Friday, August 31 - World's biggest windfarm planned off Scotland.
• Thursday, August 30 - Barclays sees a “stark” picture of tightening oil supply and high prices in years ahead.
• Thursday, August 30 - US gives Shell clearance to begin Arctic drilling.
• Wednesday, August 29 - Putin pulls plug on giant Russian Arctic Shtokman gas project.
• Tuesday, August 28 - The US natural gas ponzi scheme allegation a year on: don't believe the industry.
• Monday, August 27 - Indian PM faces growing furor over "coalgate".
• Monday, August 27 - Arctic ice shrinks to lowest level ever recorded.
• Sunday, August 26 - "Peak cheap oil is an incontrovertible fact": Telegraph.
• Friday, August 24 - Civil war linked to climatic changes, US researchers find.
• Tuesday, August 21 - Shell to invest $1bn a year in China shale gas.
• Tuesday, August 21 - Crowdfunding options set to grow for distributed solar.
• Monday, August 20 - Shale oil “not a game changer”: summary of recent studies in New Scientist.
• Friday, August 17 - Civil servants attend a 2 day Shell course on energy policy.
• Monday, August 13 - US wind passes 50 GW, but threat to production tax credit remains.
• Sunday, August 12 - "Don't be surprised if US gas export profits leak away": WSJ.
• Saturday, August 11 - Arctic ice disappearing 50% faster than scientists expected.
• Friday, August 10 - US DoJ will not be charging Goldman employees for sub-prime deals.
• Tuesday, August 7 - Osborne speech emphasises government's support for fossil-fuels industry.
• Monday, August 6 - "US military to build an army of renewable energy plants."
• Sunday, August 5 - "Wall Street banks prepare for euro breakup": FT.
• Sunday, August 5 - Italian utilities apply for gas and oil subsidies as renewables boost Italian electricity.
• Saturday, August 4 - "Climate change is here, and worse than we thought": NASA's Jim Hansen.
• Friday, August 3 - The Republican PR machine runs a growing anti-renewables smear campaign.
• Thursday, August 2 - India cannot solve its power problem with coal because of water problems.
• Thursday, August 2 - "Wind taken out of nuclear power's sails": FT.
• Wednesday, August 1 - Gas industry talks of anti-fracking "insurgency" and "war on shale gas".
• Wednesday, August 1 - India suffers world's biggest-ever power cut ….indirectly caused by climate change?
• Monday, July 30 - Maugeri, arch oil optimist, admits to very flawed maths.
• Monday, July 30 - EDF profits rise only because renewables output replaces nuclear.
• Monday, July 30 - Fast breeders reviewed: is this any basis for supporting nuclear?
• Monday, July 30 - Clean energy stocks at lowest level since 2003.
• Monday, July 30 - Nuclear "really hard" to justify says GE CEO.
• Monday, July 30 - Industry-funded academics face ethics investigations for pro-fracking studies.
• Sunday, July 29 - Osborne's father-in-law heads a gas-lobby organisation.
• Sunday, July 29 - Global temperature study funded by sceptics converts sceptics.
• Friday, July 27 - Is Bakken shale oil heading for a crash, Bernstein asks.
• Wednesday, July 25 - 20 EU solar companies join dumping complaint to EU over Chinese rivals.
• Tuesday, July 24 - China buys up 8% of UK's North Sea oil and gas production.
• Tuesday, July 24 - Greenland ice melting so fast scientists thought they made a mistake.
• Tuesday, July 24 - Big energy gets seven times more meetings with Treasury ministers than green energy.
• Monday, July 23 - Kay Review of equity markets offers multiple reform suggestions.
• Monday, July 23 - China retaliates in solar trade dispute.
• Monday, July 23 - Electricity market reforms "unworkable", MPs say.
• Monday, July 23 - UK electricity prices would have to double to make new nuclear viable.
• Monday, July 23 - Osborne to Davey: support "unabated" gas to 2030 & hold back renewables.
• Monday, July 23 - Financial overshoot: how ecological overshoot is bankrolled.
• Saturday, July 21 - Global elite hides £13 trillion from the taxman.
• Saturday, July 21 - Lord Green was warned about drugs money-laundering at HSBC when he was CEO.
• Friday, July 20 - US Navy goes on the offensive to protect its biofuels programme.
• Friday, July 20 - China in talks to buy into British nuclear.
• Friday, July 20 - “Banking has become criminalised in a way that threatens global stability.”
• Friday, July 20 - Fugitive methane emissions cast doubt on gas as a bridge to a renewable future.
• Thursday, July 19 - World braced for new food crisis": FT. As a result of worst US drought for 50 years.
• Thursday, July 19 - Osborne tries to stall UK renewables to ensure investment in gas.
• Thursday, July 19 - DECC colludes with EON & RWE to soften impact of their withdrawal from nuclear.
• Tuesday, July 17 - HSBC launders money for Mexican drug cartels, terrorists, and much more.
• Tuesday, July 17 - Investors warn against delaying wind subsidy cut.
• Monday, July 16 - Areva's Finnish reactor delayed yet again.
• Sunday, July 15 - Gulf states open pipelines to bypass Straits of Hormuz.
• Friday, July 13 - Global-warming weakens jet stream = US heatwave & UK abnormal rain?
• Thursday, July 12 - Size of Chesapeake's shale gas and oil reserves doubted.
• Thursday, July 12 - Oil demand in developing world will overtake industrialised countries for first time next year.
• Thursday, July 12 - UK government will fall far short of averting energy crisis: Labour.
• Wednesday, July 11 - Dozens of Chinese solar companies go bankrupt.
• Wednesday, July 11 - BP abandons plan to drill expensive Alaska oil field.
• Wednesday, July 11 - "The fossil-fuel industry could and should pay for provable climate damage."
• Tuesday, July 10 - One in six peers has paid links to the financial services industry.
• Tuesday, July 10 - Peer-reviewed NOAA and Met Office studies attribute extreme weather to climate change.
• Tuesday, July 10 - Corporate values are too often a product of calculation: John Kay.
• Tuesday, July 10 - "Austerity should follow a strong recovery, not proceed it": Martin Wolf.
• Monday, July 9 - Marcellus Shale fracking fluids likely seeping into drinking water.
• Monday, July 9 - DECC opinion poll shows huge support for renewables in UK.
• Monday, July 9 - BoE: banking is a “cesspit” and says there may be another LIBOR.
• Monday, July 9 - Prism reactor proposal under consideration by UK government.
• Saturday, July 7 - Big 5 UK bank customers vent anger by switching elsewhere.
• Saturday, July 7 - Areva will "probably" partner with Chinese to bid for UK nuclear.
• Saturday, July 7 - Nuclear industry net 12 reactors down in 2011.
• Thursday, July 5 - Choice between going green and growth is false: CBI.
• Thursday, July 5 - Fukushima was a man-made disaster: Japanese parliament panel.
• Wednesday, July 4 - "Monbiot says he was wrong on peak oil but the crisis is undeniable."
• Tuesday, July 3 - Diamond quits Barclays, cutting up rough.
• Monday, July 2 - Barclays chairman resigns over LIBOR scandal.
• Sunday, July 1 - “Let's end this rotten culture that only rewards rogues”: Will Hutton.
• Thursday, June 28 - Shaming the banks: a whole generation of leaders may have to go, FT says.
• Wednesday, June 27 - Exxon: we are "losing our shirts" on shale gas.
• Sunday, June 24 - "Oil: the next revolution." 110 mbd by 2020, says ex oil academic.
• Saturday, June 23 - Civil society groups and scientists scathing about Rio-plus-20 outcome.
• Thursday, June 21 - Rio+20 politicians deliver 'new definition of hypocrisy' claim NGOs.
• Wednesday, June 20 - Rio Plus 20 draft text looks awful as leaders arrive in Rio.
• Monday, June 18 - Crowdfunding: $500m raised to date, >$90bn perfectly possible.
• Sunday, June 17 - The greenhouse-gas gap can be bridged in 21 measures by 2020.
• Thursday, June 14 - Investors call for minimizing fugitive methane from shale gas drilling.
• Wednesday, June 13 - Coal's resurgence undermines fight against global warming: BP.
• Wednesday, June 13 - BP annual SRWE shows 8% oil reserves growth in 2010.
• Monday, June 11 - SSE CEO: UK "will live to regret" nuclear-centricity of EMR.
• Sunday, June 10 - An energy entrepreneur's appraisal of modern capitalism.
• Friday, June 8 - Rio+20 Earth summit: leaked draft reveals conflict among countries.
• Thursday, June 7 - M&S is first retailer to become carbon neutral.
• Wednesday, June 6 - Spanish government pleads for a bailout of its banks.
• Tuesday, June 5 - US oil and gas industry weighs in behind the Republicans.
• Monday, June 4 - More than a quarter of UK farmers host solar or wind.
• Sunday, June 3 - UK government backed by Big 6 lobbies to water down EU carbon regulation.
• Friday, June 1 - BP-funded researcher forecasts 110 mbd by 2020 and steep dip in oil prices.
• Friday, June 1 - China to restart nuclear programme.
• Wednesday, May 30 - US companies fund climate denial while publically advocating climate action.
• Wednesday, May 30 - The US shale gas story is a "gold rush" that will lead to ruin for many.
• Tuesday, May 29 - IEA boss: gas industry must address public concerns or face ban.
• Tuesday, May 29 - Gas investor says gas is no better than coal in greenhouse terms.
• Tuesday, May 29 - Gas rebranded as green energy by EU programme after industry lobbying.
• Tuesday, May 29 - Germany hits 22GW of solar output peak: nearly half nation's need.
• Friday, May 25 - China and India try to delay Durban climate accord.
• Friday, May 25 - HSBC's five steps to a green recovery.
• Thursday, May 24 - UK government delays cuts to feed-in tariffs at industry's request.
• Wednesday, May 23 - HSBC: the huge barely-tapped potential of climate bonds.
• Monday, May 21 - UK government plans to extend life of EDF's nuclear plants.
• Friday, May 18 - Apple to power its data centres on renewables, the main one all on solar.
• Friday, May 18 - US tariffs on Chinese solar cells may boost prices, and threaten trade war..
• Tuesday, May 15 - European leaders and financial markets brace for Greek exit from the Euro.
• Thursday, May 10 - Caudrilla says UK shale gas production may begin in 2014.
• Thursday, May 10 - Solar was the most installed energy source in Europe in 2011.
• Tuesday, May 8 - Citi analyst says nuclear newbuild will need taxpayer rescue.
• Monday, May 7 - Czechs eye a two year moratorium on shale gas exploration.
• Sunday, May 6 - FT writer likens shale gas boom to sub-prime mortgages.
• Saturday, May 5 - Bigger and not better: the false heart of modern capitalism.
• Thursday, April 26 - The greenest-ever government after the Clean Energy Ministerial: a delusion.
• Tuesday, April 24 - “Ghost at the banquet” attends Clean Energy Ministerial.
• Monday, April 23 - Nine out ten British want more renewable energy.
• Sunday, April 22 - PWC urges stock exchanges to tighten ESG demands on companies.
• Sunday, April 22 - Argentina's nationalisation of oil is understandable: Will Hutton.
• Sunday, April 22 - The only greenhouse gas humans stopped emitting we did so accidentally.
• Saturday, April 21 - Missing renewables target means £60bn in extra imported gas by 2020, says REA.
• Friday, April 20 - Centrica threatens nuclear pullout unless it gets guaranteed prices.
• Friday, April 20 - Ministers planning hidden subsidies for UK nuclear.
• Thursday, April 19 - New poll finds 66% of UK public in favour of wind power.
• Thursday, April 19 - New UK organisation to oppose all forms of wind power.
• Wednesday, April 18 - McKinsey sees solar PV cost competitiveness by 2020.
• Wednesday, April 18 - Take-up of UK solar PV has more than halved since April 1st.
• Tuesday, April 17 - DECC panel says UK government should OK fracking with checks.
• Tuesday, April 17 - “BrightSource’s IPO failure ends golden age of VC solar investment”.
• Monday, April 16 - Head of SolarWorld accuses energy companies of destroying solar.
• Monday, April 16 - Disastrous UK drought could extend into a third year.
• Monday, April 16 - “And then there was one ….the great atomic renaissance is unraveling.”
• Friday, April 13 - The new EIA Oil supply data “confirm peak oil fears”.
• Friday, April 13 - US government scientists link sharp rise in earthquakes to fracking.
• Friday, April 13 - China's energy gap is set to widen: largest oil importer by 2015.
• Thursday, April 12 - Solar thermal hope Brightsource withdraws its IPO with a day to go.
• Thursday, April 12 - After record clean energy investment in 2011, Q1 2012 down 22% YoY.
• Thursday, April 12 - Barclays under investigation for rigging the California electricity market.
• Wednesday, April 11 - Crowdsourcing of local solar projects solar projects grows in the USA.
• Tuesday, April 10 - "Eurozone crisis is back and here to stay".
• Monday, April 9 - JPMorgan takes huge positions in credit derivatives that "resemble" proprietary bets.
• Saturday, April 7 - Ratings agencies could downgrade EDF & Centrica if they go ahead with UK nuclear.
• Thursday, April 5 - “Households sink deeper into energy debt”: FT.
• Wednesday, April 4 - “Australian investors begin to hedge carbon risk”: RE New Economy.
• Tuesday, April 3 - Oil consumers ready to release stocks come Iran sanctions in July.
• Monday, April 2 - US DoE responds to ASPO-USA: economics will come to the rescue.
• Sunday, April 1 - North Sea: "Wells from hell are now operating on the limits of what’s an acceptable risk".
• Friday, March 30 - Why President Obama can't remove subsidies for Big Oil.
• Thursday, March 29 - "Saudi Arabia resorts to Jedi mindtricks" on oil supply: FT Alphaville.
• Thursday, March 29 - “Mobilizing society in the face of peak oil: a call to French Presidential candidates”.
• Wednesday, March 28 - IPCC releases full assessment report on climate risks and disasters.
• Wednesday, March 28 - “Why baseload power is doomed”.
• Monday, March 26 - “Why generators are terrified of solar” based on the German experience.
• Friday, March 23 - Saudi Arabia, pumping at 10 mbd, is "giving only verbal assurances".
• Friday, March 23 - “Soaring oil prices risk recession”: FT.
• Friday, March 23 - Supreme Court kicks out DECC appeal on feed-in tariffs.
• Friday, March 23 - "We are trying to grow a business in a minefield".
• Tuesday, March 20 - US solar developers now attracting investors including Google and Buffett.
• Thursday, March 15 - US & UK float prospect of emergency release of oil stocks from reserve.
• Wednesday, March 14 - “Energy giants pocket £168 a second despite big dip in power use and wholesale prices".
• Wednesday, March 14 - Extraordinary critique from a departing Goldman Sachs executive.
• Tuesday, March 13 - Tar sands emissions could be vastly higher than previously thought.
• Tuesday, March 13 - High gas prices are hastening UK energy crunch.
• Tuesday, March 13 - FoE bosses tell PM UK is handing control of its energy policy to France.
• Tuesday, March 13 - 2011 wind industry stats: 41 GW installed in a $71 billion market.
• Tuesday, March 13 - 2011 solar PV industry stats: 26 GW, up 69%, installed in a $91 billion market, up 28%.
• Tuesday, March 13 - PV's "glittering future" in a near £250bn global green tech market within next decade.
• Monday, March 12 - SEC makes payments to whistleblowers: a new dimension on Wall Street.
• Saturday, March 10 - Why we should be stabilizing actual greenhouse gas concentrations
• Friday, March 9 - Barclays CEO Bob Diamond takes home £17m plus bank pays his £5.7m tax bill.
• Thursday, March 8 - UK coastal nuclear plants at risk of flooding.
• Thursday, March 8 - US shale boom hoovers up 20% of equity issuance so far this year..
• Thursday, March 8 - Fracking failing so far in China and Europe shale, Exxon CEO says.
• Tuesday, March 6 - "Peak oil back with a vengeance": Telegraph international business editor.
• Tuesday, March 6 - Oil industry has “shed talk of peak oil".
• Tuesday, March 6 - Total's Upstream Chief Says Peak Oil Is Around The Corner
• Monday, March 5 - Wrexham installs 30,000 locally made solar panels on 3,000 low-income homes.
• Monday, March 5 - DECC: Consumers won't thank us for choosing "bargain basement" energy policy.
• Saturday, March 3 - BP in $7.8 bn out of court settlement of Gulf claims.
• Friday, March 2 - Oil price hits $128 and Iran views Saudi production hike as economic warfare.
• Friday, March 2 - German solar industry association calls subsidy cuts a "solar phase out".
• Thursday, March 1 - Why so much coverage for one exploding Scottish wind turbine?
• Tuesday, February 28 - Intense lobbying by EDF and British Gas leads to “wildly one sided” UK energy policies.
• Monday, February 27 - Obama allows TransCanada to push ahead with Texas-Oklahoma part of tar pipeline.
• Monday, February 27 - China responds to solar glut by upping production targets.
• Monday, February 27 - 52 of 54 Japanese nuclear plants offline, and a Forbes contributor says solar is the way to go.
• Saturday, February 25 - Oil hits $125 on IAEA fears of Iran's uranium buildup.
• Saturday, February 25 - “Soaring oil prices will dwarf the Greek drama”.
• Friday, February 24 - Sunshine Oilsands raises half a billion in largest IPO this year.
• Thursday, February 23 - Chinese coal fraud undetected by underwriters and auditors, although easy to spot.
• Thursday, February 23 - Solar stocks slump on bigger-than expected German feed-in tariff cut.
• Thursday, February 23 - UK solar PV installations pass 1 GW.
• Wednesday, February 22 - Africa could alleviate poverty through renewable energy, UN report says.
• Wednesday, February 22 - Oil reaches a sterling highest-ever price on Iran fears.
• Tuesday, February 21 - Comment on HMG's decision to take their illegal FiT plan to the Supreme Court.
• Tuesday, February 21 - Average crystalline solar PV module prices fall below $1 for the first time.
• Tuesday, February 21 - “Prepare for a golden age of gas”: Martin Wolf.
• Saturday, February 18 - Poll hows huge majority in favour of windfall tax on Big 6.
• Friday, February 17 - “No peak oil – why then is Saudi opening old wells for heavy crude?”
• Friday, February 17 - Citigroup says shale oil means peak oil is dead.
• Thursday, February 16 - Saudi Arabia to open oldest field to tap heavy oil.
• Wednesday, February 15 - Outlook for global oil supply grim even before latest Iran threats.
• Wednesday, February 15 - The underpinnings of climate scepticism: extract from "The Carbon War".
• Wednesday, February 15 - Libertarian thinktank bankrolls climate sceptics with millions from carbon industries.
• Tuesday, February 14 - Eon threatens to stop offshore wind power investments in Germany.
• Sunday, February 12 - Iberdrola backs subsidies freeze on Spanish renewables, and wants British nuclear
• Friday, February 10 - "End the Big 6 Energy Fix" public campaign launches.
• Friday, February 10 - Climate change should mean a 100% renewables by 2030 target.
• Tuesday, February 7 - BBC partially retracts its anti-wind Panorama programme.
• Tuesday, February 7 - KPMG refuses to release controversial green energy report.
• Monday, February 6 - German power exports to France, including solar, increasing.
• Saturday, February 4 - Is Russia behind anti-fracking protests and ban in Bulgaria?
• Thursday, February 2 - DECC chief scientist advocates burning nuclear waste as Mox fuel.
• Wednesday, February 1 - Exxon shale gas wells fail in Poland.
• Wednesday, February 1 - “Fracking boom could finally cap myth of peak oil:” investment banker.
• Wednesday, February 1 - Grass roots projects are “the way to low carbon UK, says coalition of 12 m.
• Tuesday, January 31 - "The coming US-China solar war": Time.
• Tuesday, January 31 - Fred Goodwin, former RBS CEO, to be stripped of knighthood.
• Monday, January 30 - Dismay as Spain freezes all support for new renewables projects.
• Wednesday, January 25 - Solar now cheaper than diesel in India making Mittal, Coca-cola and others believers.
• Wednesday, January 25 - UK government loses appeal on illegality of DECC's solar feed-in tariff cuts.
• Monday, January 23 - "The carbon bubble will burst – we must be prepared this time".
• Monday, January 23 - Areva says private investigator was hired, as ex boss goes legal.
• Friday, January 20 - FT: "Radiant outlook for energy sector" …meaning gas.
• Thursday, January 19 - "‘Atomic Anne’ leaves Areva under a cloud": FT.
• Thursday, January 19 - Investors ask BoE to probe risk that fossil-fuel reserves pose "sub-prime" risk.
• Thursday, January 19 - US regulator rejects utility's proposed “network usage charge” ploy to suppress solar PV.
• Wednesday, January 18 - BP sees non-fossil fuel growing faster than any single fossil fuel.
• Monday, January 16 - Ex Areva CEO says she was victim of a plot and that the state spied on her.
• Monday, January 16 - Saudi Arabia targets a $100 oil price.
• Sunday, January 15 - Oil price in euro equivalent is almost at July 2008 peak.
• Friday, January 13 - Eurozone crisis deepens: S&P downgrades 7 nations including France.
• Thursday, January 12 - Big 6 UK energy companies had 4 million complaints in 2011.
• Thursday, January 12 - Clean energy investment up 5% to $260bn in 2010, with solar more than half.
• Monday, January 9 - Germany installs 7.5 GW of solar PV in 2011.
• Thursday, January 5 - America Petroleum Institute threatens Obama with "political backlash".
• Thursday, January 5 - Richard Branson: "the absolute necessity" of investing in renewables.
• Wednesday, January 4 - Ohio earthquake probably caused by fracking wastewater.
• Tuesday, January 3 - BP sues Halliburton for the costs of the Macondo spill.
• Monday, January 2 - UK third-bottom of the European renewable energy league.
• Monday, January 2 - JL blog: Energy dramas for 2012.

2011 (568)

• Friday, December 30 - UK green energy investment sharply down on 2009.
• Wednesday, December 28 - Rebuilding the UK's energy system by 2050: costs about the same for clean or conventional energy, DECC says.
• Tuesday, December 27 - Iran threatens to shut Straits of Hormuz if nuclear sanctions go ahead.
• Friday, December 23 - Church and National Trust attack government's solar cuts.
• Thursday, December 22 - Violent protests against coal fired power plants in China.
• Thursday, December 22 - MPs committees slate UK government for feed-in tariff actions.
• Wednesday, December 21 - BP to exit solar completely after 40 years.
• Wednesday, December 21 - High Court rules UK government has acted illegally of solar feed-in tariff target date.
• Tuesday, December 20 - Some executives now raise concerns about a glut on US oil capacity.
• Monday, December 19 - Ecotricity eco-bond oversubscribed by 62%.
• Sunday, December 18 - The 5 US states with most wind and solar saw least electricity inflation 2005-2010.
• Friday, December 16 - Japan succeeds in bringing Fukushima to cold shutdown.
• Thursday, December 15 - Solon becomes biggest EU solar bankruptcy to date.
• Wednesday, December 14 - UK public overwhelmingly supports wind and solar.
• Tuesday, December 13 - Canada pulls out of the Kyoto Protocol.
• Sunday, December 11 - Hedge funds have returned to investors an average of ….zero.
• Sunday, December 11 - Co-op aims to create an new social asset class to lend to developing country co-ops.
• Sunday, December 11 - Agreement reached against expectations at the Durban climate summit.
• Saturday, December 10 - Big 6 pressure on UK government led to UK solar feed-in tariff ambush.
• Friday, December 9 - "Energy firms accused of treating clients with contempt as complaints leap".
• Friday, December 9 - EPA blames Wyoming groundwater pollution on fracking.
• Tuesday, December 6 - Why is a Keynesian solution so difficult to sell when it is clear that austerity is worsening the economic downturn?
• Tuesday, December 6 - Durban Summit outcome looks gloomy with 3 days to go.
• Tuesday, December 6 - Standard & Poors flags downgrade of multiple EU countries.
• Tuesday, December 6 - Big 6 demands for up-front payments are a barrier to new UK manufacturing.
• Tuesday, December 6 - Big 6 bosses earn millions as their customers bills soar.
• Monday, December 5 - CO2 emissions have increased by a half in 20 years.
• Monday, December 5 - EDF and other Big Energy firms have loaned 50 employees to government.
• Monday, December 5 - Brazilian government orders Chevron to shut an offshore well.
• Monday, December 5 - China says it may accept a legally-binding outcome at Durban climate summit.
• Monday, December 5 - BP claims Halliburton destroyed Deepwater Horizon evidence.
• Monday, December 5 - Countercurrents: the triple crunch we face and the barriers to renaissance.
• Monday, December 5 - DECC passed nuclear intelligence documents to industry, documents show.
• Sunday, December 4 - Climate change investing is "a sunset industry": FT Lex.
• Sunday, December 4 - UK economic outlook so bleak that business-as-usual capitalism cannot expect to muddle through now.
• Sunday, December 4 - UK renewables projects tumble as Big 6 dash for gas.
• Friday, December 2 - UK new nuclear plans slip yet again: 2019 now, maybe.
• Friday, December 2 - Big Energy firms accused of profiteering, again.
• Thursday, December 1 - Review article on solar FiTs: success in Germany versus threat from nuclear lobby in Japan.
• Thursday, December 1 - Governor of Bank of England warns of spiral into crisis.
• Thursday, December 1 - More than a quarter of UK households are in fuel poverty after Big 6 energy price rises.
• Thursday, December 1 - Europe may launch an oil embrago at Iran in wake of embassy attack.
• Thursday, December 1 - Enron-type speculation back in play in energy markets.
• Thursday, December 1 - UK government announces it needs a new Mox plant at Sellafield.
• Thursday, December 1 - UK Conservative right is thrilled as government backs off green agenda.
• Thursday, December 1 - "Burning oil to keep cool: the hidden energy crisis in Saudi Arabia."
• Wednesday, November 30 - Top 20 banks lending to coal listed by NGOs.
• Wednesday, November 30 - Largest UK CCS plant opens in Yorkshire.
• Wednesday, November 30 - "A focus on renewables would allow the Government to deliver on some of its cornerstone mantras".
• Wednesday, November 30 - "29/11/11: a turning point in British history".
• Wednesday, November 30 - Central Banks step in to try and head off next credit crunch.
• Tuesday, November 29 - Select Committees hear both sides on UK solar feed-in tariff cuts.
• Tuesday, November 29 - Chancellor is wrong to blame Europe for lost decade now inevitable.
• Sunday, November 27 - "The eurozone has only days to avoid collapse".
• Friday, November 25 - Carbon trading "not working" UBS says, as carbon price hits record low.
• Thursday, November 24 - US blocks flagship climate fund.
• Wednesday, November 23 - Saudi fuel demand for power plants to rise 53% by 2017.
• Wednesday, November 23 - Shale gas exploitation would take UK way over carbon allowance.
• Wednesday, November 23 - UK government's "green deal" ignores microgeneration.
• Tuesday, November 22 - UK solar mass lobby of Parliament: passions running high as job losses loom.
• Monday, November 21 - Solar trade way grows more likely.
• Sunday, November 20 - "Rich nations 'give up' on climate treaty until 2020".
• Sunday, November 20 - Michelle Bachman: Solyndra "makes Watergate look like child's play".
• Sunday, November 20 - "India should claim full nuclear liability from suppliers".
• Saturday, November 19 - Kashagan, "biggest oil discovery in 40 years", may become a $39bn white elephant.
• Friday, November 18 - IPCC's first special report on extreme weather: much worse to come.
• Thursday, November 17 - World Bank agrees to lend to Moroccan CSP plant.
• Tuesday, November 15 - EDF searches for partners beyond Areva.
• Tuesday, November 15 - Nuclear power, at a crossroads, cannot afford another accident.
• Tuesday, November 15 - Uncertainty will remain about China's nuclear policy until next spring.
• Tuesday, November 15 - Nuclear protests in India upset government expansion plans.
• Tuesday, November 15 - "Anti-nuclear mood melts Tepco's hopes of normality".
• Monday, November 14 - UK's ambitious nuclear programme looks shaky.
• Sunday, November 13 - Ofgem study undermines case for nuclear.
• Saturday, November 12 - Fukushima: "grim and shambolic" say first journalists allowed in.
• Thursday, November 10 - Obama decides to push tar sands pipeline decision beyond election.
• Thursday, November 10 - Solarcentury takes DECC to court as CBI joins the criticism.
• Thursday, November 10 - Damning inditement of James and Rupert Murdoch in the FT.
• Thursday, November 10 - Martin Wolf: Don't believe Bob Diamond.
• Thursday, November 10 - Rating agency mistakenly announces downgrade of French credit rating.
• Thursday, November 10 - "UK Treasury prepares for 'economic armageddon' if the euro falls apart".
• Thursday, November 10 - Two EDF execs jailed for spying on anti-nuclear activist.
• Wednesday, November 9 - US Commerce Department investigates Chinese solar dumping.
• Wednesday, November 9 - SSE and Shell announce a CCS project at Peterhead.
• Wednesday, November 9 - IEA warns that oil price may hit $150 in the short term.
• Wednesday, November 9 - Birol: energy will become "viciously" more expensive without clean energy IEA says.
• Wednesday, November 9 - IEA World Energy Outlook: Just 5 years to avoid irreversible climate change.
• Wednesday, November 9 - The prize is huge for the solar PV manufacturing survivors.
• Tuesday, November 8 - Huhne op-ed hints at the pressure he is under from the gas industry.
• Tuesday, November 8 - Australia passes landmark carbon price legislation.
• Tuesday, November 8 - "The vast, shocking hole in BBC Panorama's analysis of rising energy bills".
• Monday, November 7 - Psychologists: ignorance of energy issues breeds deeper ignorance.
• Monday, November 7 - Human chain of anti-tar-sands protestors forms around the White House.
• Monday, November 7 - Nuclear lobby puts cost of French nuclear cut to 50% at €60bn.
• Monday, November 7 - >Half UK solar firms would fire >50% staff, survey shows, if feed-in-tariff cuts are as scheduled.
• Monday, November 7 - Harvard students walk out of economics class, demand change in teaching, join Occupy Wall Street.
• Monday, November 7 - Renewables UK slams KPMG report professing gas & nuclear are cheaper.
• Sunday, November 6 - Nuclear phase-out and pricey Russian gas hit RWE and Eon profits.
• Saturday, November 5 - Big energy is trying to maim renewables: Jeremy Leggett debates Charles Hendry.
• Saturday, November 5 - BP: prepared at its own admission to work with criminals and thugs.
• Friday, November 4 - Greenhouse gas levels worse than IPCC worst case.
• Friday, November 4 - G20 Summit fails and global recessions looms.
• Thursday, November 3 - US utility launches a novel assault on distributed generation.
• Thursday, November 3 - World central banks act to prevent fresh credit crunch.
• Thursday, November 3 - The real reason behind the UK solar cuts: an anti decentralised power lobby.
• Wednesday, November 2 - Conventional oil has now completed six years of flat production.
• Wednesday, November 2 - Shale gas fracking caused two Blackpool earthquakes.
• Tuesday, November 1 - European leaders scramble to save latest eurozone rescue plan.
• Tuesday, November 1 - UK bankruptcies ahead: my comment to Reuters.
• Tuesday, November 1 - "Solar chiefs threaten legal action": FT.
• Tuesday, November 1 - Japan due to restart first reactor since Fukushima.
• Tuesday, November 1 - IPCC scientists predict grim future of ruinous weather extremes.
• Monday, October 31 - Belgium latest to quit the nuclear, conditionally.
• Monday, October 31 - DECC announces £1bn support for 1,000 jobs at two Big 6 power plants.
• Monday, October 31 - UK solar feed-in tariff halving by December confirmed.
• Monday, October 31 - Analysts: US oil production could exceed Saudi and Russia within a decade.
• Sunday, October 30 - Middle America supports the Occupy Wall Street protests.
• Friday, October 28 - Solar industry plans a march on Downing Street.
• Friday, October 28 - UK solar FiT debacle as EST prematurely posts a briefing note on the halving of tariffs.
• Friday, October 28 - Vested interests are clouding the prospects for cleatech.
• Friday, October 28 - "Patience is a virtue in hunt for game-changing 'green google'": FT.
• Tuesday, October 25 - WWF report: UK can be 60-90% powered by renewables by 2030:
• Tuesday, October 25 - Eon & RWE ask for equity injection in UK nuclear plants.
• Tuesday, October 25 - 6 reasons for a workable solar PV feed-in tariff.
• Tuesday, October 25 - RWE CEO condemns solar PV as inefficient and poor value.
• Tuesday, October 25 - Industry fears UK government is about to halve UK solar feed-in tariff.
• Monday, October 24 - Swiss researchers analyse how banks control transnational power.
• Monday, October 24 - US-China war of words on solar trade hots up.
• Friday, October 21 - Altium Securities calls the solar sector "uninvestable".
• Thursday, October 20 - UK government slashes support for non-marine renewables.
• Thursday, October 20 - Huge independent scientific study confounds climate sceptics.
• Thursday, October 20 - Chinese government allows municipal bonds.
• Wednesday, October 19 - Lead up to the UK FiT review “feels like Groundhog Day”.
• Wednesday, October 19 - US solar companies resort to law in effort to end Chinese "decimation" of US manufacturing.
• Monday, October 17 - Corporate leader say they understand the worldwide anti-Wall street protests.
• Monday, October 17 - Ten years on from the Enron scandal, the lessons have not been learnt.
• Monday, October 17 - "Experimental zero-carbon development is antithesis of eco-bling".
• Sunday, October 16 - FSA blocks liquidity swaps between from insurers and pension funds to banks.
• Friday, October 14 - "Why has Ofgem taken so long to act against big energy companies?"
• Friday, October 14 - FT: "Wall Street protests spread to global stage".
• Friday, October 14 - Big 6 profits margins soar.
• Thursday, October 13 - Huhne: nuclear is in running to be UK's most expensive postwar policy failure.
• Tuesday, October 11 - Production growth proves elusive for oil companies.
• Tuesday, October 11 - SSE breaks rank to offer 100% of its electricity on the wholesale market.
• Tuesday, October 11 - Virgin unveils jetfuel from industrial gas that would otherwise have been release as CO2.
• Saturday, October 8 - Moodys downgrades 12 UK financial institutions.
• Friday, October 7 - RWE reviews its involvement in the UK nuclear programme.
• Thursday, October 6 - Bank of England launches QE2 at "worst ever" financial crisis
• Thursday, October 6 - Scottish Power shelves flagship UK CCS project.
• Thursday, October 6 - Obama toughens his rhetoric as anti Wall Street demonstrations spead across America.
• Tuesday, October 4 - Six months of low rain leaves Pacific islands without fresh water.
• Tuesday, October 4 - Tar sands oil imports effectively banned under new EU Directive.
• Monday, October 3 - Green New Deal Company to launch in UK in 2011, consortium of backers agrees.
• Monday, October 3 - Osborne says UK will do no more than any other EU country on green agenda.
• Sunday, October 2 - Solar is ready: advert for solar industry sponsored by Shell.
• Sunday, October 2 - 700 anti-Wall Street protestors arrested in New York.
• Sunday, October 2 - Warning to Asian investors: carbon asset bubble is being ignored.
• Thursday, September 29 - "Think the unthinkable and start printing money again".
• Thursday, September 29 - Soros offers a three point plan to half the second Great Depression.
• Thursday, September 29 - Calls grow for unfair trade action to be taken against China on solar and wind.
• Thursday, September 29 - Merkel succeeds in pushing new bailout through the Bundestag.
• Thursday, September 29 - Renewables reach almost 10% of UK electricity.
• Wednesday, September 28 - IAEA: Fukushima as bad as Chernobyl.
• Wednesday, September 28 - Gas industry accepts that environmentalists have won first round on fracking.
• Wednesday, September 28 - Toshiba may install a community nuclear plant in Alaska next year.
• Wednesday, September 28 - Saudi Arabia targets first nuclear reactor by 2024.
• Wednesday, September 28 - Sixth Cairn well off Greenland ends in failure.
• Monday, September 26 - Delay to UK reforms of ROC system imperils renewables investment.
• Monday, September 26 - SolarCity forced to cut huge military solar project after federal loan delay.
• Friday, September 23 - UK regulation of fracking: confused and minimal.
• Friday, September 23 - Caudrilla discovers "huge" gas reserves under Lancashire.
• Friday, September 23 - SSE ditches nuclear plans in favour of gas, renewables and CCS.
• Thursday, September 22 - "It could be Autumn 2008 all over again: but worse".
• Thursday, September 22 - Cameron: the global economy is close to staring down the barrell.
• Thursday, September 22 - CCS falling by wayside, IEA tells energy ministers.
• Sunday, September 18 - "Our capitalist sytem is near meltdown": Will Hutton.
• Sunday, September 18 - Siemens announces it is quitting the nuclear industry.
• Sunday, September 18 - Villagers protest pollution at Chinese solar manufacturing plant.
• Saturday, September 17 - Solyndra's bankruptcy was a result of falling solar costs, not scandal and impropriety.
• Saturday, September 17 - Daniel Yergin argues peak-oil advocates have been proved wrong.
• Friday, September 16 - "Climate-denying candidates make more Americans believe in global warming".
• Friday, September 16 - An economic advisor to the Chinese government recommends green GNP calculation.
• Friday, September 16 - BP's Macondo liability stakes remain high notwithstanding mistakes of partners.
• Friday, September 16 - "The Titanic disaster meant a life of shame for its CEO. Not so BP's Tony Hayward".
• Friday, September 16 - Four Welsh coal miners die in a mine disaster.
• Thursday, September 15 - US gas groups switch rigs and trucks to gas.
• Thursday, September 15 - $2bn rogue trading scandal at UBS.
• Thursday, September 15 - EDF CEO acknowledges public mistrust in big energy companies.
• Tuesday, September 13 - Wadebridge: progress in effort to be UK's first solar town.
• Monday, September 12 - JP Morgan CEO says bank rules are "anti US".
• Sunday, September 11 - Tony Hayward announces that he will step down from the TNK-BP board.
• Sunday, September 11 - Murdoch scandal: the risk world now changes forever.
• Sunday, September 11 - Arctic ice melts to a low almost certainly not seen for 8,000 years.
• Sunday, September 11 - CEO of manufacturers association says companies oppose renewables targets.
• Sunday, September 11 - After the Murdoch scandal, corporate risk analysis will never be the same again.
• Sunday, September 11 - EU set to give Commission power to negotiate Nabucco pipeline treaty.
• Friday, September 9 - TNK-BP uncovers 365 cases of alleged corruption and other rule infringements by its staff.
• Friday, September 9 - BP's management is in a "strategy vacuum".
• Friday, September 9 - Support for nuclear rises in UK notwithstanding Fukushima.
• Thursday, September 8 - Tepco considered abandoning Fukushima, and Kan feared for the nation.
• Thursday, September 8 - Blackout hits 5 million in California, Arizona, Mexico as 2 nuclear plants go down.
• Thursday, September 8 - JP Morgan argues that production costs influence commodity price swings.
• Thursday, September 8 - FT podcast: Is the solar industry in trouble? No.
• Thursday, September 8 - FBI raids Solyndra's offices.
• Wednesday, September 7 - Glencore: first CSR report reveals dozens of fatalities.
• Wednesday, September 7 - Hayward seals deal in "last big inshore easy oil province" with interesting partners..
• Tuesday, September 6 - Top polar researcher: Arctic oil exploration could cause an uncontrollable disaster.
• Monday, September 5 - Support the solar revolution: JL in the Telegraph.
• Monday, September 5 - Solar PV grid parity predicted by 2013 at earliest and 2019 at latest in Europe.
• Monday, September 5 - 7 out of 8 US insurers are still ignoring soaring climate risks.
• Monday, September 5 - "How Apple could revolutionize solar".
• Monday, September 5 - War damage means Libyan crude won't return fully before 2018.
• Sunday, September 4 - The oil tanker sector is swamped by oversupply.
• Sunday, September 4 - "The worst of the Eurozone crisis is yet to come"
• Friday, September 2 - US solar bankruptcies: a shakeout, not a meltdown.
• Friday, September 2 - Bankers have pocketed more than £2 trillion in the last five years.
• Thursday, September 1 - "Global manufacturing grinds to a halt".
• Wednesday, August 31 - Mongolia set for triple-listing $3bn coal IPO.
• Wednesday, August 31 - Banks escape any major reforms until 2015.
• Wednesday, August 31 - Coal deals burn investors: Bloomberg.
• Wednesday, August 31 - Germany tops 20% renewables in power.
• Tuesday, August 30 - NASA climate scientist arrested at tar sands pipeline protest.
• Tuesday, August 30 - Barclays launches 100m renewables fund for UK farmers.
• Tuesday, August 30 - ExxonMobil signs deal with Rosneft to explore in the Arctic.
• Tuesday, August 30 - Dangerous times as politicans and investors struggle in the US and Eurozone.
• Monday, August 29 - EPA plans mean many new US coal plants may never be built.
• Monday, August 29 - Obama administration backs tars sands pipeline from Alberta to Texas.
• Monday, August 29 - Concern about global warming rises in developing world, meanwhile falling in developed.
• Thursday, August 25 - Solar lanterns are increasingly replacing kerosene across Africa and Asia.
• Thursday, August 25 - Local Nigerians accuse Shell of causing pipeline sabotage by withdrawing payments for protection.
• Thursday, August 25 - Wikileaks cables show US fears about Chinese nuclear power safety.
• Wednesday, August 24 - China tips the global auto population over 1 billion.
• Wednesday, August 24 - French nuclear regulators tells EDF of 13 areas of concern at Flamanville.
• Wednesday, August 24 - Wave of legal actions in the offing now on Wall Street.
• Wednesday, August 24 - Earthquake shuts down a nuclear plant in Virginia.
• Tuesday, August 23 - Goldman Sachs hires top criminal lawyer to defend itself against deception charges.
• Tuesday, August 23 - CarbonTracker may have identified a "new class of toxic assets": The Actuary.
• Tuesday, August 23 - New York Times editorial: no to the tar sands pipeline.
• Tuesday, August 23 - ECB study concludes that speculators amplify fundamentals-based oil price rises.
• Tuesday, August 23 - Naoto Kan makes a bill pushing renewables a condition of his departure as PM.
• Tuesday, August 23 - "Saving capitalism from itself": article in Management Today.
• Monday, August 22 - Big 6 write down £600m in coal assets.
• Monday, August 22 - World's largest solar farm switches from solar thermal to PV.
• Monday, August 22 - Essar Energy shares fall as Indian government witholds permission to develop coal reserves.
• Monday, August 22 - Customer demand pushes German railways to target zero carbon.
• Monday, August 22 - Japan says some areas near Fukushima will remain uninhabitable for many years.
• Sunday, August 21 - Sea-level rise is turning the rivers of the Mekong delta saline.
• Friday, August 19 - UK defence ministry opposes windfarms because they "interfere" with detection of nuclear tests.
• Friday, August 19 - FTSE 100 falls below 5,000 amid fears of double dip recession.
• Thursday, August 18 - Solar PV price declines will outpace demand growth, analysts say.
• Thursday, August 18 - China sounds India out on the prospect of joint military patrols to safeguard oil tankers.
• Wednesday, August 17 - Self-inflicted political backlash now threatens Big 6s' viability, analysts believe.
• Wednesday, August 17 - Fukushima cooling system was probably crippled before the tsunami struck.
• Tuesday, August 16 - UK banks still fund cluster bomb makers.
• Tuesday, August 16 - "Saudi Arabia is Opec's real winner": FT.
• Monday, August 15 - Leaking Shell pipeline is biggest North Sea oil spill for a decade.
• Sunday, August 14 - BP suffering from such a skills shortage that growth is threatened.
• Sunday, August 14 - "We've been warned: the system is ready to blow".
• Sunday, August 14 - Demonstration in China forces closure of chemical plant after near flood by sea.
• Friday, August 12 - Short selling of bank shares banned in Eurozone.
• Friday, August 12 - "Financial markets at their wits' end": FT editorial.
• Friday, August 12 - Plunging shares mean UK pension values have fallen around £5,000.
• Thursday, August 11 - China goes for a solar PV feed-in tariff.
• Thursday, August 11 - Barclays: oil prices could rise even as stock markets fall.
• Thursday, August 11 - Fracking industry will not win argument by asserting the process is safe, a US advisory committee report says.
• Wednesday, August 10 - Eon issues 3 years of profits warnings and cuts 11,000 jobs, blaming nuclear shut down.
• Wednesday, August 10 - "Don’t tell anyone I said so but the lights are still on in Tokyo".
• Tuesday, August 9 - Founder of Kids Company sets out the social exclusion that lead to UK rioting.
• Sunday, August 7 - "The world runs out of options": we are en route to double-dip recession.
• Saturday, August 6 - "Global leaders race to stem panic over US credit rating downgrade".
• Friday, August 5 - More than half UK newspaper coverage of renewables is negative.
• Thursday, August 4 - Threat of power outages amid soaring temperatures in Houston.
• Wednesday, August 3 - Shell pays out some £250 million for huge Nigerian oil spill.
• Wednesday, August 3 - Sellafield's Mox plants closes, "no longer needed after Fukushima".
• Sunday, July 31 - Air of desperation at BP as they seek a big idea.
• Sunday, July 31 - "Unusable reserves: it’s hot air, say analysts".
• Friday, July 29 - Shareholders target BP's chairman.
• Friday, July 29 - It will be years before Libyan oil comes back online.
• Friday, July 29 - Renewables receive only a tenth the subsidies of fossil fuels.
• Thursday, July 28 - UK solar grows 18 fold since last year as feed-in tariffs take effect.
• Thursday, July 28 - Willingness of Japan's citizens to ration energy reduces prospect of blackouts.
• Tuesday, July 26 - RWE abandons UK wave power project.
• Tuesday, July 26 - "Why the UK must choose renewables over nuclear: an answer to Monbiot".
• Tuesday, July 26 - BP oil and gas production falls 11%.
• Monday, July 25 - 50 years of Soviet solar research for sale for not much.
• Monday, July 25 - $120 oil by year end becomes the biggest bet on NYMEX.
• Monday, July 25 - MPs tell Big 6 energy companies to stop mis-selling and compensate victims.
• Monday, July 25 - City pressures Centrica to abandon plans for nuclear power.
• Monday, July 25 - Traders exploit the big spread between Brent and WTI oil.
• Friday, July 22 - EDF's Flammanville delay puts the end nuclear electricity price up 33-45%
• Friday, July 22 - Consumer groups call for a 3 month ban on doorstep selling by Big 6 energy groups.
• Friday, July 22 - Indonesian coal boom massively enrichs the country's elite.
• Friday, July 22 - Extreme heat in 30 US states as dozens of cities break temperature records.
• Thursday, July 21 - Mayor Bloomberg donates $50m to campaign to eliminate coal power plants.
• Thursday, July 21 - Most moaned-about energy companies should be "named and shamed".
• Thursday, July 21 - Koch, Exxon Mobil, & other corporations help write state climate laws.
• Thursday, July 21 - "Rising energy costs move up political agenda".
• Thursday, July 21 - EU leaders agree another Greek bailout, this time of more than €100bn.
• Wednesday, July 20 - Does carbon accounting doom the London financial markets to fail again?
• Wednesday, July 20 - EDF's French next gen reactor delayed another two years.
• Wednesday, July 20 - Half Turkmenistan gas production now goes to China.
• Tuesday, July 19 - Saudi oil consumption surges dangerously.
• Monday, July 18 - Arctic ice on track for a record low, worse than 2007.
• Monday, July 18 - Planned gas-fired power plants in UK threaten renewables development.
• Monday, July 18 - The conditions for the next financial crisis are "firmly in place".
• Sunday, July 17 - Catastrophe awaits if America cannot service its public debt and defaults.
• Sunday, July 17 - Record drought cripples farms across southern US.
• Friday, July 15 - Rating agencies edge closer to downgrade of US credit rating.
• Friday, July 15 - Nine banks fail EU stress tests.
• Friday, July 15 - "The astounding potential of a solar energy tipping point".
• Thursday, July 14 - Conventional assets across the oil majors’ portfolios to fall from 48% to 39% by 2016.
• Thursday, July 14 - Conoco-Phillips breaks up to focus just on exploration and production.
• Thursday, July 14 - 700,000 more families fell into fuel poverty in 2009.
• Thursday, July 14 - Action is needed on "unburnable carbon" by every sector in the financial chain.
• Wednesday, July 13 - Solar omitted from DECC's list of 8 key renewables.
• Wednesday, July 13 - Carbon floor price gives EDF an instant £125m revenue 2013-2020.
• Wednesday, July 13 - If fracking is safe, why are insurance premiums so high for fracked land?
• Wednesday, July 13 - Utility shelves its first major CCS project because of Congress inaction on climate.
• Tuesday, July 12 - Wind-powered solar-panel manufacturing comes to the UK.
• Tuesday, July 12 - "Why high-carbon investment could be the next sub-prime crisis".
• Tuesday, July 12 - Eurozone debt crisis deepens as Italy's borrowing costs soar.
• Tuesday, July 12 - Huhne publishes UK electricity market reform white paper.
• Monday, July 11 - Calling for a solar revolution and trying to interest the financial sector: a tough call.
• Monday, July 11 - "World’s stock markets over-exposed to fossil fuels: investors at risk of a ‘carbon bubble’."
• Monday, July 11 - Systemic risk blindness accounts carbon "assets" with zero risk of stranding.
• Sunday, July 10 - UK heading for depression lasting longer than the Great Depression..
• Sunday, July 10 - Australian government sets out a carbon tax with a 20% renewables by 2020 target plus funding.
• Saturday, July 9 - BP seeks to stem Gulf compensation payments.
• Friday, July 8 - Outgoing Areva CEO slams lack of vision at EDF & in French state.
• Friday, July 8 - Coal, oil, and gas magnates party for three days in Montengro.
• Thursday, July 7 - Record $211bn clean energy investment in 2010 driven by Chinese wind and EU solar roofs.
• Thursday, July 7 - UK's two biggest solar installations start generating
• Wednesday, July 6 - RWE, Eon and EDF all cast new doubt on UK nuclear build programme.
• Wednesday, July 6 - Pension fund investment in EU renewables will be essential: EU climate commissioner.
• Wednesday, July 6 - Jellyfish shut two power plants / ocean acidification maybe behind the surge in numbers.
• Wednesday, July 6 - Exxon spill in Yellowstone river: evidence of "unacceptable" level of US spillage from pipelines.
• Wednesday, July 6 - Vast gas leakage shows up in US distribution system.
• Wednesday, July 6 - China's biggest wind turbine manufacturer enters EU market with €1.5bn deal n Ireland.
• Tuesday, July 5 - Statoil and Centrica resume gasfield development after Treasury gives tax concessions.
• Tuesday, July 5 - More than a spill a week in the North Sea in 2009 and 2010.
• Tuesday, July 5 - Renewables now almost a quarter of global power, with global 2010 investment of $211 bn.
• Tuesday, July 5 - Almost all US crude oil futures trading volume is by day traders.
• Tuesday, July 5 - US renewable energy exceeded nuclear in Q1 2011, as well as all 2010.
• Sunday, July 3 - July 4 foreworks banned across US in face of dire drought driven in part by global warming.
• Sunday, July 3 - "British bankers are still gambling while small businesses go to the wall".
• Sunday, July 3 - "Betting the wind farm": FT on the challenges of the German renewables push.
• Friday, July 1 - Flourishing business can happen without a growth fixation: Jules Peck.
• Friday, July 1 - Vestas signs a major deal with EDF Nouvelles.
• Friday, July 1 - "Rise of the radical": today's outlier ideas may soon become inescapable.
• Friday, July 1 - Microsoft and Google both give up on home energy monitoring.
• Thursday, June 30 - Fukushima children test positive for caesium.
• Thursday, June 30 - UK renewables use in energy rose only 0.3% to 3.3% in 2010.
• Thursday, June 30 - The future is unsequestered fossil fuels, participants at an FT conference say.
• Thursday, June 30 - "In the worst drought in Texas history, 13.5 billion gallons of water used for fracking."
• Thursday, June 30 - Force energy companies to insulate houses, says UK Committee on Climate Change.
• Thursday, June 30 - British government plotted to play down Fukushima from Day Three.
• Wednesday, June 29 - World's first fracking bans come through on successive days in New Jersey and France.
• Wednesday, June 29 - UK must not support World Bank's dirty power subsidies, MPs say.
• Wednesday, June 29 - Oil prices return to levels before the IEA stock release.
• Wednesday, June 29 - Michael Klare likens the emerging fight over which energy we use to the 30 years war.
• Tuesday, June 28 - Flood waters surround a Missouri nuclear power plant.
• Tuesday, June 28 - Norway delays a crucial investment decision at the Mongstad CCS facility until 2016.
• Tuesday, June 28 - China enters the shale gas game with a fracking tender.
• Tuesday, June 28 - Shareholders lambast Tepco at its annual meeting.
• Tuesday, June 28 - IEA chief does not rule out another drawdown of reserves after 30 days.
• Tuesday, June 28 - Google's green energy wish list: EVs and hybrids come top.
• Monday, June 27 - Sarkhozy commits another €1bn to nuclear power, saying there is no choice.
• Monday, June 27 - UK's biggest solar PV installation so far connects to the grid.
• Sunday, June 26 - Eon will embrace German renewables revolution, CEO says.
• Saturday, June 25 - "Insiders sound an alarm amid a natural gas rush": NYT .
• Friday, June 24 - China blocks EU airbus order in protest at EU emissions trading policy.
• Friday, June 24 - Gushing FT summary of fracking in Texas sees enhanced recovery negating peak oil.
• Thursday, June 23 - Citizens across world oppose nuclear power, favour solar, poll finds.
• Thursday, June 23 - IEA oil release "changes the market pyschology" on oil.
• Thursday, June 23 - Locations for 8 new nuclear power reactors released by UK government.
• Thursday, June 23 - Oil price falls as IEA decides to release 60 mbd from reserves to offset Libyan decline.
• Wednesday, June 22 - "Climate change is a struggle for the soul of America: Al Gore.
• Wednesday, June 22 - Transocean blames BP for the Macondo spill.
• Wednesday, June 22 - O&G industry figures that floating LNG terminals will take the public heat off gas production.
• Wednesday, June 22 - EU emissions will not rise as a result of Germany's nuclear phase out.
• Wednesday, June 22 - US Supreme Court ruling vindicates use of Clean Air Act to fight global warming: NYT.
• Tuesday, June 21 - Leaked Russian nuclear stress test report reveals a disastrous state.
• Tuesday, June 21 - US public has little idea how certain scientists are about climate change.
• Monday, June 20 - AP investigation finds US regulators relax standards as plants age.
• Monday, June 20 - EIA budget cuts will cloud understanding of oil markets.
• Monday, June 20 - U.S. Supreme Court rules against states on global warming case.
• Monday, June 20 - Ernst & Young report on UK solar PV shows large-scale grid parity as soon as 2016.
• Monday, June 20 - "Fukushima report shows nuclear power can never be safe and cheap".
• Monday, June 20 - "Germany goes back to black in snub to green power": Reuters.
• Monday, June 20 - Texas law requires frackers to list chemicals they use in gas drilling.
• Sunday, June 19 - Obama is right to leave the Strategic Petroleum Reserve alone even as prices rise.
• Sunday, June 19 - Wall Street has an "irrational, dangerous hatred of solar stocks".
• Sunday, June 19 - China stockpiles rare-earths vital in high-tech manufacturing, and prices soar.
• Saturday, June 18 - Fukushima water decontamination halted after radiation rise.
• Friday, June 17 - Latest climate talks end without progress.
• Friday, June 17 - IMF warns that risk of another credit crunch is growing.
• Thursday, June 16 - UK electricity market reforms are only marginal, and "must be more ambitious".
• Thursday, June 16 - US solar jobs now outnumber US steel jobs.
• Thursday, June 16 - Fear of imminent Greek default hits world markets, and threatens Eurozone.
• Thursday, June 16 - IEA urges Opec to lift supply.
• Thursday, June 16 - Nuclear enthusiast questions authorship of IPCC renewables report.
• Thursday, June 16 - Areva CEO quits as French seek to solve the delays and spat with EDF.
• Wednesday, June 15 - "Japan’s richest man takes on atomic future with solar plans": Bloomberg.
• Wednesday, June 15 - US and Saudi Arabia talked about a secret oil reserve swap.
• Wednesday, June 15 - IPCC is assessing geo-engineering solutions, leaked documents show.
• Wednesday, June 15 - Energy constraints force Pentagon to draw up its first battlefield energy plan.
• Wednesday, June 15 - UK Government poured scorn on peak oil in 2009 despite grim internal advice.
• Tuesday, June 14 - 40 of the FTSE 100 do not have emission targets.
• Tuesday, June 14 - ASPO analysis of BP Statistical Review suggests peak is near.
• Tuesday, June 14 - Almost three quarter of Japanese favour nuclear phase out.
• Tuesday, June 14 - Google invests $280m in Californian solar PV installer.
• Tuesday, June 14 - IEA urges Opec to lift production, or else threaten the global recovery.
• Tuesday, June 14 - “The nuclear lobby sabotages renewable energies, I’m convinced about it": Corinne Lepage.
• Monday, June 13 - "Drought threatens Texas oil boom": Bloomberg.
• Monday, June 13 - Bundeswehr study on peak oil speaks of "economic collapse".
• Monday, June 13 - Italians vote overwhelmingly for no nuclear power.
• Monday, June 13 - 443 nuclear plants with almost no insurance: because its unaffordable.
• Monday, June 13 - Japanese PM calls for complete reform of power industry.
• Monday, June 13 - Saudi Arabia plans to lift production to 10 mbd by July.
• Monday, June 13 - "Forget peakoil – the world may be on the verge of peak renewables".
• Sunday, June 12 - Education chief wants to exclude climate change science from UK schools curriculum.
• Saturday, June 11 - Huhne incites consumers to "hurt" Big Six on energy prices.
• Friday, June 10 - Opec says oil supply shotfall looms later this year.
• Friday, June 10 - Short sellers target First Solar
• Thursday, June 9 - "Running dry": Economist. "Oil production fails to keep up with demand."
• Thursday, June 9 - "Ferocious" cost reductions make PV competitive, even with coal.
• Thursday, June 9 - UK government confirms deep cuts in solar support from August.
• Thursday, June 9 - "DECC accepts warning of rising peak oil risks": Business Green.
• Thursday, June 9 - Cairn wins injunction against Greenpeace in the Arctic.
• Thursday, June 9 - Wind turbines rise at one per hour in China: growth faster than coal..
• Wednesday, June 8 - "There is total paranoia concerning renewables" in Russia: IFC.
• Wednesday, June 8 - Poland targets shale gas aiming to escape Russian dependency.
• Wednesday, June 8 - Japan admits Fukushima reactors may have suffered "melt through".
• Wednesday, June 8 - Global energy consumption grew 5.6% in 2010.
• Wednesday, June 8 - "Europe prays for rain as drought worsens": FT headline.
• Wednesday, June 8 - US solar power nears price competitiveness with traditional power..
• Wednesday, June 8 - Oil leaps as Opec meeting descends into disarray.
• Tuesday, June 7 - Scottish power hikes domestic gas 19% and electricity 10%, amid consternation.
• Tuesday, June 7 - Head of Saudi Electricity Company says Saudi oil may run out in 2030 on current trends.
• Tuesday, June 7 - Light touch bank regulation "ended tragically" for the UK, says US Treasury Secretary.
• Monday, June 6 - China threatens trade war over EU emissions trading scheme.
• Monday, June 6 - Climate talks reopen with resentment thick in the air.
• Monday, June 6 - Natural gas is not a climate change panacea: IEA.
• Monday, June 6 - The nuclear industry cannot afford another accident.
• Monday, June 6 - IATA: oil price poses threat to airlines' survival.
• Monday, June 6 - Saudi Arabia on course to lift production above 9 mbd again
• Sunday, June 5 - LNG demand rises as nuclear is shunned.
• Sunday, June 5 - "Crisis meeting as drought leaves crops dying in the fields": UK headline.
• Sunday, June 5 - Shell produces first GTL at its Pearl plant in Qatar.
• Friday, June 3 - Goldman credit crunch legal costs exceed $1 billion in a year
• Friday, June 3 - Qantas offers all staff redundancy in face of rising fuel costs.
• Friday, June 3 - UK minister: "solar can compete with the big boys".
• Thursday, June 2 - Sarkhozy describes post-Fukushima fears over nuclear safety as “ medieval”.
• Thursday, June 2 - NY prosecutors probe Goldman Sachs on their conduct in the financial crisis.
• Thursday, June 2 - Britain as vulnerable to energy shock as Uganda.
• Wednesday, June 1 - Centrica wasn’t bluffing: it leaves a gas field offline.
• Wednesday, June 1 - German nuclear shutdown will add 40 mtCO2 per year.
• Wednesday, June 1 - IAEA inspectors: Fukushima response "exemplary".
• Wednesday, June 1 - Growth of derivatives means new financial crisis is “inevitable”.
• Wednesday, June 1 - SSE boss: UK government's proposed nuclear boost risks harming electricity industry.
• Wednesday, June 1 - Canada hides rising tar sands emissions in UN report
• Wednesday, June 1 - Fracking suspended near Blackpool after minor earthquake
• Wednesday, June 1 - Flooding and cyclones shrink Australian economy
• Wednesday, June 1 - Petroleum Review guest editorial: an appeal for action on peak oil risk.
• Wednesday, June 1 - Government policy causes crisis of confidence in UK cleantech sector
• Tuesday, May 31 - World's first floating solar powered island opens in Soeul.
• Tuesday, May 31 - Europe’s dry spring could lead to blackouts, governments warn.
• Tuesday, May 31 - China raises electricity prices for industrial users
• Tuesday, May 31 - Will the triple crunch shake us out of economic torpor?
• Tuesday, May 31 - Perspective on the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security concerns.
• Monday, May 30 - German nuclear phaseout: "easier than many think".
• Monday, May 30 - Regeneration is best done through localisation.
• Monday, May 30 - Germany to scrap nuclear power by 2022: its official.
• Sunday, May 29 - Saudi Prince: "we don’t want the west to find alternatives” to oil.
• Sunday, May 29 - New Greek bailout….this time with direct EU intervention in how the economy is run.
• Sunday, May 29 - “Worst ever carbon emissions leave climate on the brink”: Guardian front page.
• Thursday, May 26 - $100bn investment opportunity in Indian solar market: KPMG.
• Thursday, May 26 - Switzerland to join Germans in nuclear phase out.
• Thursday, May 26 - “Oil industry losing shale PR battle”: FT headline.
• Wednesday, May 25 - Nuclear insiders warn of Fukushima-type risks in UK.
• Wednesday, May 25 - Shell and Rosneft hold talks on the Arctic.
• Wednesday, May 25 - Vince Cable: I can see another crash happening.
• Tuesday, May 24 - Oil rises on Goldman Sachs forecast.
• Tuesday, May 24 - Climate change poses threat to nuclear power.
• Tuesday, May 24 - Terrorism not included in EU nuclear stress tests.
• Tuesday, May 24 - Italian government moves to stop nuclear newbuild
• Tuesday, May 24 - Tepco says reactors 2 and 3 melted down early.
• Tuesday, May 24 - Green investment bank will be able to fund nuclear.
• Tuesday, May 24 - Companies need to prepare for a post-growth focus on wellbeing.
• Tuesday, May 24 - Indian solar programme faces a host of problems.
• Tuesday, May 24 - China faces worst drought in 50 years.
• Tuesday, May 24 - Coal pressure on China's utilities creates power shortage.
• Tuesday, May 24 - CFTC charges oil traders with fraudulent trading in 2008.
• Tuesday, May 24 - Toshiba says it will favour renewables over nuclear.
• Monday, May 23 - German nuclear shutdown may mean blackouts, energy companies say.
• Monday, May 23 - Green Investment Bank to invest £15bn by May 2015.
• Monday, May 23 - BP's CEO offers an interesting view of recent history.
• Monday, May 23 - Oil production is at record levels in EIA data, for all categories.
• Sunday, May 22 - Gas threat to US windfarm growth.
• Saturday, May 21 - US NRC refuses to certify Toshiba reactor.
• Friday, May 20 - Shell given go ahead for world-first giant floating LNG plant.
• Friday, May 20 - UK government agrees to develop oil shock response plan with industry.
• Friday, May 20 - "An introduction to our guest editor"
• Friday, May 20 - "Greenest government ever: but so far only in target setting”
• Friday, May 20 - "I thought many others would feel the same"
• Friday, May 20 - US approves first shale-gas export plant.
• Friday, May 20 - Pentagon advisors’ report recognises climate change.
• Thursday, May 19 - Spain suspends another set of subsidies for solar plants.
• Thursday, May 19 - By 2013 there will no Opec spare capacity to turn on.
• Thursday, May 19 - China admits to problems with Three Gorges Dam.
• Thursday, May 19 - “Head to head: Does the UK need nuclear power?”
• Thursday, May 19 - Renewables are being added to the US grid at almost no cost.
• Thursday, May 19 - NOAA chief warns of “rapid, unprecedented” changes in oceans.
• Thursday, May 19 - Landis+Gyr and Toshiba plot “end to end” smart grid.
• Wednesday, May 18 - Huhne: nuclear review removes barriers for UK newbuild
• Wednesday, May 18 - “Cameron falls short of his green promise”.
• Wednesday, May 18 - “Can businesses justify renewable energy?” Yes.
• Wednesday, May 18 - Scotland commits to 100% renewable energy by 2020.
• Wednesday, May 18 - Banks provide billions routinely for fossil fuel via corporate loans.
• Wednesday, May 18 - Huhne says nuclear review removes barriers for UK newbuild
• Wednesday, May 18 - Integrated corporate reporting draws nearer?
• Wednesday, May 18 - Kan calls for "fundamental review” of Japan’s nuclear sector
• Wednesday, May 18 - New enquiry opened on bank fraud.
• Tuesday, May 17 - Oil features in 1 in 10 wikileaks cables.
• Tuesday, May 17 - Raging wildfires across Alberta stop oil and gas operations.
• Tuesday, May 17 - To hit 60% CO2 cuts by 2030, UK needs new policies.
• Tuesday, May 17 - UK carbon targets: good, but what about policies?
• Tuesday, May 17 - Huhne pledges to cut UK carbon emission 50% by 2025.
• Monday, May 16 - UK MPs attack “covert” nuclear subsidies.
• Monday, May 16 - Oil demand is slowing, but so too is supply.
• Monday, May 16 - UK climate commitments have a get-out clause.
• Monday, May 16 - EDF will limit maintenance at its 12 seaside reactors this summer because of ….drought.
• Monday, May 16 - “Tepco officials ignored or concealed dangers”: NYT.
• Monday, May 16 - Tepco now says other reactors may have melted down.
• Monday, May 16 - Soaring oil price boosts Russian stock exchange.
• Monday, May 16 - UK climate commitments have a get-out clause.
• Monday, May 16 - Wireless electric car charging makes global debut.
• Monday, May 16 - BP-Rosneft deal appears to have collapsed.
• Monday, May 16 - Latest estimate of Greenland impact on sea-level: 4.5cm higher than IPCC estimates by 2100.
• Monday, May 16 - Even as Mississippi flooding costs billions, locals deny global warming.
• Wednesday, May 11 - Goldman Sachs "guilty of fraud": Rolling Stone pulls no punches.
• Monday, May 9 - UK climate panel says 45% energy from renewables possible by 2030.
• Monday, May 9 - First IPCC report on renewables concludes they can power the world.
• Tuesday, May 3 - Europe must be weaned from its oil addiction.
• Sunday, May 1 - Cores damaged in three Fukushima reactors.
• Sunday, May 1 - "Waiting for the sun to shine": nuclear woes, solar gains.
• Friday, April 29 - Goldman Sachs play dumb to escape "big short" accusations, author alleges.
• Friday, April 29 - Total buys 60% of solar PV manufacturing giant Sunpower for $1.38 bn.
• Thursday, April 28 - IEA: governments should have recognised oil depletion problem ten years ago.
• Thursday, April 28 - Peak oil: Houston, maybe we do just have a problem?
• Tuesday, April 26 - A year on from the Macondo spill, 1.1 million barrels of oil are still missing.
• Monday, April 11 - One nuclear reactor meltdown every three years on average.
• Wednesday, April 6 - "Hold that horse: we're running out of time".
• Monday, March 28 - Tepco chief spent week secluded in office as Fukushima crisis raged.
• Thursday, March 24 - George Monbiot is wrong. Nuclear power is not the way to fight climate change.
• Friday, March 18 - Solar feed-in tariff U-turn marks another betrayal by the 'greenest government ever.'
• Thursday, February 17 - Inside Job: how bankers caused the financial crisis.
• Monday, February 14 - "Let's put some weight behind the cleantech revolution".
• Monday, February 14 - US must help Saudi Arabia turn into “the Saudi Arabia of solar,” WikiLeaks cables say.
• Sunday, February 13 - Gas cheaper than renewables for EU carbon targets, say gas firms.
• Thursday, February 10 - "The next crisis: an oil crunch".
• Thursday, February 10 - "Peak oil: We are asleep at the wheel".
• Wednesday, February 9 - Centrica boss says gas prices will keep going up in Europe.
• Tuesday, February 8 - Wikileaks cables: Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices.
• Tuesday, February 8 - "Triple whammy": the arguments become ever more compelling, for those with eyes to see.
• Monday, January 24 - Senior Saudi: we need solar and nuclear to stop soaring domestic oil use.
• Sunday, January 23 - "Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet" by Tim Jackson.
• Wednesday, January 12 - Bob Diamond: "The time for banker remorse is over."

2010 (28)

• Tuesday, December 28 - The justice system is "decriminalizing fraud" in big financial institutions.
• Tuesday, December 7 - UK Climate Change Committee publishes carbon budget.
• Sunday, December 5 - “From Quakers to suited psychopaths": a history of corporations in modern capitalism.
• Thursday, November 18 - “Protect us from peak oil, says Richard Branson (and others)”: FT.com.
• Monday, November 1 - IEA WEO 2010: No peak in oil supply, with announced policies, until 2035.
• Wednesday, October 27 - USGS drops estimate of Alaska's undiscovered oil by fully 90 percent.
• Monday, October 25 - "Solar energy feed-in tariffs narrowly escape the chop".
• Monday, October 18 - "The singular genius of a simple solar lantern".
• Sunday, October 10 - "Coal India shows the mountain we have to climb".
• Monday, September 20 - A personal story of peak oil: 15 minutes at The Tabernacle.
• Wednesday, September 1 - "You are you mission": the importance of purpose in organisations.
• Wednesday, August 11 - IEA warns Gulf spill effect has put the oil industry’s ability to find enough new oil “on a knife edge.”
• Friday, June 11 - Lend Lease bans its subsidiary Bovis from nuclear work because it is “unethical”.
• Thursday, June 10 - "After the credit crunch, next it will be oil": FT op-ed.
• Wednesday, June 9 - BP chief economist says "oil supply will never peak".
• Monday, June 7 - Responsible businesses outperform rivals in both good and hard times.
• Saturday, May 8 - BP CEO's cost cutting contributed to Deepwater Horizon explosion.
• Sunday, April 25 - ConocoPhillips CEO Jim Mulva admits that pursuing new oil reserves no longer pays.
• Wednesday, April 14 - US military warns of massive oil shortages by 2015.
• Thursday, April 1 - Energy crisis is brewing in both gas/electricity and oil.
• Tuesday, March 30 - Monbiot vs Leggett on solar PV: all the arguments in one place.
• Wednesday, March 10 - "I accept George Monbiot’s £100 solar PV bet".
• Saturday, March 6 - Is modern energy helping humans develop an empathic civilisation?
• Wednesday, March 3 - "Solar panels are not fashion accessories".
• Wednesday, February 10 - The lessons for the oil crunch from the credit crunch ought to be stark.
• Wednesday, February 10 - Second ITPOES report warns of descending global oil production by 2015.
• Monday, February 8 - Richard Branson and other UK business leaders warn of oil crunch within five years.
• Monday, February 1 - "We've got the power": a month in the life of the nuclear industry.

2009 (18)

• Thursday, December 31 - Our own power. A self-help people-power idea for the Tenties.
• Wednesday, December 30 - "Investing in coal is dysfunctional".
• Saturday, November 21 - IEA WEO 2009: Unconventional gas is "a game changer".
• Tuesday, November 10 - Twelve questions about nuclear power.
• Monday, November 9 - Key IEA oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower.
• Sunday, November 1 - Geologists vote that peak oil is a concern, by significant majority.
• Monday, October 26 - A plan to power 100 percent of the planet with renewables.
• Thursday, October 1 - "In the energy arena, battle lines are being drawn in a global struggle for hearts and minds".
• Sunday, September 20 - Norway’s £259bn oil and gas wealth fund plans a more activist role.
• Thursday, September 3 - "Oil still has us over a barrel".
• Monday, August 3 - "Another crunch is coming. But will the world act?"
• Monday, July 13 - "E.ON & EDF have drawn battle lines between renewables and nuclear".
• Monday, July 6 - UK exports electricity to France as drought shuts nuclear plants.
• Friday, July 3 - Climate protestors who hijacked Drax coal train convicted.
• Tuesday, June 30 - RBS faces court action to invest bailout funds ethically.
• Monday, June 29 - Trust in business partly recovers, but opinion is building against status quo.
• Monday, June 22 - UN's responsible investment campaign boosted by financial crisis.
• Monday, June 8 - US Geological Survey says US is no longer the “Saudi Arabia of coal”.

2008 (5)

• Tuesday, October 28 - Is the collapse of the Mayan civilisation an analogue for the fate of ours?
• Friday, September 19 - Nick Leeson on the financial crisis: Why is nobody being sent to jail?
• Monday, April 28 - US Air Force calls for "Apollo mission" to fight climate change.
• Friday, April 18 - Lord Stern: We underestimated the climate threat in the 2006 Stern Review.
• Sunday, April 13 - King Abdullah: Saudi Arabia should "leave oil in the ground."

2007 (4)

• Thursday, December 6 - BP breaks its promise not to exploit the tar sands.
• Friday, November 16 - Shell pays for articles in Time and Fortune critical of their world view.
• Sunday, June 24 - British armed forces chief: climate change could fuel conflict and terror.
• Friday, February 2 - Exxon-funding instutute offers scientists cash to critique IPCC.

2006 (2)

• Friday, October 27 - Senators tell Exxon to stop the climate denial.
• Wednesday, September 20 - Royal Society warns Exxon-Mobil will try to undermine next IPCC report.

2005 (1)

• Wednesday, June 8 - Ex API lobbyist in Bush White House watered down climate warnings.

2000 (1)

• Saturday, January 1 - Archive