Clean energy investment now exceeds fossil fuels by nearly two to one. New IEA data reveals where the world's energy system is heading.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the global energy transition and net-zero emissions. As the world prepares for the UN’s COP30 climate change ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan—This year’s COP29 climate conference started right where last year’s meeting in Dubai left off—with more conflict-of-interest woes around a senior official recorded trying to use the ...

We have targets for what to build, and high-level commitments to climate neutrality, but still no coherent plan for what to phase out, even though fossil fuels still account for nearly 80 per cent of ...

The annual UN climate change conference held in Brazil last year, known as COP30, concluded without a clear roadmap to phase out fossil fuels. It also laid bare a question that has long haunted ...

Many so-called low-carbon projects promoted by major oil and gas companies—including hydrogen, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, and carbon offsetting—operate as false solutions that not only fail ...

The United Nations’ COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, known as “the Amazon COP,” wrapped on November 22nd. Powerful petrostates and large polluting nations succeeded in blocking inclusion of a ...

Nearly 100 campaign groups on Friday called on COP31 climate summit co-hosts Turkey and Australia to "lead by example" by ...

Research reveals that the revenue source for state and local tax bases represents a little-known challenge to clean energy adoption in the United States. Communities that have long relied mostly on ...

Nonrenewable energy sources like fossil fuels are being depleted and will eventually run out. 91% of U.S. energy in 2023 came from nonrenewable sources including petroleum and natural gas. Despite ...

Colombia expanded renewables under Gustavo Petro, but struggled to reduce its dependence on oil, gas and coal.