At the UN climate summit in New York today, institutional investors managing $24 trillion of assets are demanding stronger, more ambitious policies on climate change, writes Kieran Cooke. These include an effective carbon price and an end to fossil fuel subsidies.
… | 23rd September 2014 News Climate Change UK Finance Fossil Fuels Renewables … statement comes amid growing concern in the finance sector about the economic consequences …
Increased production from US fracking operations is a major reason for the drop in oil prices, writes Kieran Cooke. But there are warnings that the industry now faces an existential crisis from which it may never recover, as the financial sector faces the prospect of worthless shares and $100s of billions of defaulted debt.
… | 7th January 2015 News Oil Fracking Gas Finance Energy … bleak for the thousands of smaller, less well-financed companies who rushed into the …
China is by far the world's biggest producer of solar panels, writes Kieran Cooke. But the industry is suffering from over-capacity, razor thin profits and a failure to innovate.
… according to the Bloomberg New Energy Finance research group, China now sells solar …
Rich countries cause human movement – in a warming world they need to protect and accept those forced to flee. PART 1 of 2.
… to provide $100 billion per year in climate finance to help countries in the Global South … in less than a week - every six days in fact. Finance fails In terms of what might actually … and investments, and the future of climate finance and adaptation funding doesn’t look …
The UK budget must be about pouring enough water on climate fires and irrigating resources to those in need - not about plucking geese and ‘maxed-out’ credit cards.
… with Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’S finance minister, who said: “The art of … attractive. The highly evolved system of car finance is a major example. But, with …
Higher oil production and falling demand are creating big problems for the fossil fuel industry, writes Kieran Cooke. Risk-averse investors, spooked by drastic oil price falls, are turning away from the sector in search of more secure returns.
Improved technology and falling costs are moving electric car sales into the fast lane as manufacturers seek achieve significant economies of scale, writes Kieran Cooke. And now China is leading the EV charge with its plans for 5 million plug-in vehicles by 2020.
… electric car market by Bloomberg New Energy Finance . The report says that even if petrol …
Controls on adverts for oil companies, SUV makers and airlines are already starting to happen - but what else should we stop advertising to raise our survival chances?
… is growing, from fast fashion to fossil finance, red meat and dairy products, to …
Australia has been growing rich from exporting coal to China. But as Kieran Cooke reports, China's renewable energy revolution may soon bring the 'good times' to an end.
… impact on both federal and state government finances. The state of Queensland alone - the …
Why and how we must welcome human migration in a warming world. Part 2 of 2.
… other issues. Then in the long shadow of the finance and banking crises of 2007-2008 – … people by taxing the cross border movement of finance in international currency trading. We …
We just can't have fossil fuel investors and industries sponsoring climate conferences like COP26.
Polluting the process Andrew Simms | 28th October 2021 | News The Budget Climate Breakdown COP26 Advertising 51619710608_f43e77a22f_c.jpg We just can't have fossil fuel investors and industries …