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Phil Snow, of Power Shift Solar, installs a solar panel at a home in Salt Lake City.

Renewable energy set to overtake coal in the US for the first time

G20 Leaders raise their garden hoes for a group photo during a tree planting event at the Taman Hutan Raya Ngurah Rai Mangrove Forest

G20 leaders agree to keep 1.5C warming target ‘within reach’

Greta Thunberg speakin during a Fridays for Future global climate strike in front of a parliament building in Berlin, Germany, 24 September 2021.

Why is Greta arguing that Germany should keep its nuclear plants open?

Workers install solar planers on the roof of a house in Rivas Vaciamadrid, Spain.

Renewables meet 100% of the rise in global electricity demand

Windmills are seen in front of the Gries dam at SwissWinds farm, Europe's highest wind farm.

Energy crisis will speed up green transition, says renewables chief

Construction crews work on unfinished racks for solar panels at the AES Corporation's West Oahu solar farm in Kapolei, Hawai'i.

Hawaii closes its last coal power plant as it moves toward renewables

Giorgos Papadopoulos, supervisor at Public Power Company (PPC), walks near a coal excavator at Greece's largest lignite mine.

All the EU countries stalling on climate since the Ukraine invasion

A coal power plant in Kozani, Greece.

European countries return to coal as Russia threatens to turn off gas

24/06/2022

What's on the ballot at Australia's climate election?

After bushfires and floods, will Australians vote for climate action?

19/05/2022

What a solar farm would like on Turkey's coal mines.

Turning Turkey’s coal mines into solar farms would power 7m homes

13/04/2022

Smoke rises from chimneys of Turow power plant located by the Turow lignite coal mine near the town of Bogatynia, Poland.

Europe's green targets could help to 'defund conflict' in Ukraine

18/03/2022

This aerial view shows coal being loaded onto trucks near a coal mine in Datong, China's northern Shanxi province, 2021.

Why is China building new coal plants despite environmental promises?

07/03/2022

The inside of the Dawdon mine water treatment plant in Seaham, Durham.

Flooded coal mines could be used to heat homes in the future

14/02/2022

Portugal becomes the fourth country to stop using coal.

Portugal becomes the fourth EU country to stop using coal

22/11/2021

A protester holds a banner displaying a "1.5 degree" slogan during a climate change demonstration outside of the COP26.

What does the final COP26 agreement really mean for climate change?

16/11/2021

Pinson is taking on some of Europe's biggest financial institutes.

This ‘clean finance’ campaigner is ending funding for fossil fuels

03/11/2021

A deep coal mine is planned for the Cumbrian town of Whitehaven.

UK faces ‘embarrassing’ COP if new fossil fuel projects not ditched

28/10/2021

Green energy 'cannot happen now': Miners march to protect coal industry in Bulgaria

Thousands of miners march to protect the coal industry in Bulgaria

14/10/2021

Are European utility companies returning to coal as gas prices soar?

European electricity companies return to coal as gas prices soar

12/10/2021

The G7 countries have pledged to end public support for coal-fired power stations

G7 commits to end support for coal-fired power stations this year

21/05/2021