All items tagged with Fossil Fuels and climate change (50)

| As the focus on carbon dioxide emissions has grown over recent years, the European oil and gas majors (Shell/BG, Total, BP and Eni) have mov...

| Thanks to additional strong commitments of Germany and Norway last month, CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) at the new coal-fired biomass pow...

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| Between the Copenhagen and Paris climate summits the banking sector has supported the coal industry with billions of dollars. Coal financing...

| Fossil fuels have been the dominant source of energy for global economic prosperity for over 150 years and today still accounts for over 86%...

| Europe faces a massive challenge as it seeks to manage the transition to non-carbon based energy, but it must not forget the need for oil an...

| In the past five years the European power market has seen a sharp drop in the utilization of gas-fired capacity, with renewables and coal ta...

| Shale gas axed Chevron’s announcement on January 30, 2015, that it will discontinue shale gas exploration in Poland is the latest in a serie...

| Oil companies have eyed the Arctic for years. With an estimated 90 billion barrels of oil lying north of the Arctic Circle, the circumpolar...

| In 2013 the US Energy Administration estimated that Europe contained 470 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of potentially recoverable shale gas, equ...

| Torstein Indrebø, then Secretary General of the International Gas Union, was a distinguished guest of the XXI Autumn Gas Conference organise...