Electric cars 'could displace 2m barrels of oil per day' by 2025

“There is no more business as usual in the energy sector. There are a number of low-carbon technologies about to achieve critical mass decades before some companies expect”, says James Leaton, head of research at Carbon Tracker.

Do personal steps to reduce your carbon footprint really make much difference?

Do our individual actions matter anymore? Are the lifestyle suggestions actually meaningful? Do they still make any sense?

The End Is Near for the Biggest Coal Plant in the American West

Cheap natural gas could force the closure this year of the Navajo Generating Station near the Grand Canyon, dealing another blow to coal as a chief source of electricity in the U.S.

Ireland votes to be world's first country to fully divest from fossil fuels

The Irish parliament just passed a bill to fully divest their sovereign wealth fund from oil, gas, and coal.

Corporations Join Norway in Creating $400M Rainforest Fund

Corporate giants have joined the Norwegian government in creating a fund to find deforestation in Brazil.

The end of coal is near: China just scrapped 103 power plants

China has announced plans to cancel more than 100 coal plants currently in development, scrapping what would amount to a massive 120 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired electricity capacity if the plants were completed.

Breakthrough technology turns coal plant CO2 into baking soda

At one coal-fired power plant in southern India, Carbon Clean Solutions is capturing CO2 and turning it into baking powder for the first time at a large-scale industrial operation.

Graphene quantum dots hold promise in reducing waste CO2

Graphene quantum dots may offer a simple way to recycle waste carbon dioxide into valuable fuel rather than release it into the atmosphere.

Four Major Cities Ban Diesel Vehicles by 2025

Mayors of Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City agreed to ban diesel vehicles in these cities in the next decade

Twisting carbon-absorbing tower takes shape in Taiwan

The twisting building will carry 23,000 trees, which will absorb up to 130 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year.

Dallas is building America’s biggest urban nature park

Dallas, USA is about to become one of the greenest cities in America – by building the country’s largest urban nature park.

Canada will dump its coal power plants by 2030

Minister of Environment and Climate Change announced a plan to completely phase out coal-burning power plants by 2030—unless those plants capture and store their carbon dioxide emissions.

Germany plans to slash CO2 emissions up to 95 percent by 2050

Germany's coalition government has come together on an action plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 to 95 percent by the year 2050.

Historic Paris Climate Pact Is Now Law

"Humanity will look back on Nov. 4, 2016, as the day that countries of the world shut the door on inevitable climate disaster," UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa and Moroccan Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar said in a joint statement.