The world no longer needs new fossil fuels – and the UK could lead the way in making them taboo

North Sea oil and gas has become a battleground issue in the UK general election.
North Sea oil and gas has become a battleground issue in the UK general election.
The BBC has issued an overview on fossil fuels and where we’re at now.
Anupama Sen, Head of Policy Engagement and Sam Fankhauser, Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, both from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment write in The Conversation on the Conservatives’ approach to net zero.
Charlie Wilson, Professor of Energy and Climate Change and Senior Research Fellow has contributed to a major new study discussing innovative strategies that significantly reduce both resource consumption and fossil fuel emissions.
In a recent speech, UN secretary-general António Guterres called upon “every country to ban advertising from fossil fuel companies”. He urged the professional services and creative industries to “stop taking on new fossil fuel clients, from today, and set out plans to drop your existing o...
Kaya Axelsson, Research Fellow with the Climate programme, recently spoke at the City of London’s Net Zero Delivery Summit.
This call for evidence aims to gather information to improve government’s understanding of both non-pipeline transport (NPT) value chains and cross-border CO2 transport and storage networks, the costs associated with them, and the potential barriers to deployment.
New research suggests that long duration energy storage technologies are poised to rival lithium-ion batteries for certain applications, with some already offering cheaper storage over eight hours.
SMEs – businesses with up to 250 employees and turnover under £50m – are essential yet largely neglected actors in the UK’s energy transition. A new report co-authored by Dr Sam Hampton, Acting Energy Programme Deputy Lead at the ECI, sets out policy recommendations to transform SM...