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Here are the companies most responsible for global warming: Study

Scientists estimate that emissions from just 90 companies contributed for nearly 50% of the rise in global mean surface temperature since the end of the Industrial Revolution.

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Which European banks do the most to stop climate change?

Leading European banks have pledged to reduce financing of “extreme” fossil fuels, but who is sticking to their commitments?

Real Economy

Europe's transition to a green energy future

Sweden gets more than half of its energy from renewables but how is the rest of Europe doing when it comes to generating clean power?

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Who will be coldest in Europe this winter?

Almost 9% of Europeans can’t afford to heat their homes

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Madagascar's oil potential

Convinced of its oil potential, Madagascar wants to draw foreign investors to the island.

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Activists enter the grounds of a brown coal mine near Bonn

Germany

Thousands rally in Bonn to protest over Cop23 climate deal

Environmental campaigners from around the world gathered in the German city ahead of next week's UN conference to ratify the Paris climate deal

USA

US energy secretary: fossil fuels can prevent sexual assault

Rick Perry was explaining how fossil fuel power could help African villages

World News

How taxpayers’ money is being used to fuel Europe’s deadly diesel pollution

EU countries paid out €21 billion in subsidies for diesel - despite exhaust fumes from the fuel being considered a major cancer risk.

My Europe Series

Climate change's devastating effects on Europe's nature, health and economy

Global warming is expected to continue with its share of devastating weather patterns: heavy rainfalls, floods, extreme droughts and lasting effects on nature, the economy and people’s…

My Europe Series

Bosnia and Herzegovina: dying for coal

On all Saints day, people had come from all parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and even from abroad, to honour their loved ones at the cemetary of the Divkovici village, in Bosian and…

My Europe Series

Donald Trump will find it 'very difficult' to back out of Paris climate change Agreement

If Donald Trump were to leave the Paris Agreement, what signal would it send to the world's other top CO² emitters?

Germany

Activists occupy Germany coal mine

Thousands of environmental protesters have blockaded a coal mine in Germany as part of a campaign to end the use of fossil fuels. Vattenfall, the

Business Series

RWE 'to cut 2,500 jobs at its struggling British subsidiary npower'

German utility RWE reportedly plans to cut about 2,500 jobs at its struggling British subsidiary npower amid customer losses, billing issues and tougher competition.

My Europe Series

Germany and Poland have a dirty big secret - an addiction to brown coal

In eastern Germany some members of a little-known group claim they are being ethnically cleansed, not by militia groups, but by the coal mining

Business Line

Business Line special oil edition: a brave new world

In the last few weeks oil prices went on a wild rollercoaster ride. Now they seem to have re-taken their shaky path, driven in no small part by the

United Kingdom

EU must act over shock study on diesel fume deaths - campaigners

World News

G7 fossil-fuel pledge: what's the plan?

The G7 members have agreed to phase out the use of fossil fuels by the year 2100, according to proposals outlined in June 2015. They share this goal

Ukraine

Gazprom claims Ukraine could run out of gas in two days

Ukraine could run out of supplies of gas within two days. That’s according to Russia’s Gazprom. The company which supplies gas to Ukraine said in a

My Europe Series

Crude awakening: Romania's Black Sea oil and gas finds fuel Europe's energy hopes

Huge discoveries of oil and gas in the Black Sea off Romania have thrust the country back into the heart of the region’s energy market. In addition