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GENEVA, April 17, 2015—A coalition of governments are calling for the phase-out of subsidies to fossil fuels in the lead-up to a major climate conference in Paris. A group of eight countries known as the Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform released a Communiqué encouraging...

“Fossil fuel subsidies send out a terrible signal: burn more carbon.” World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.

Transition to clean coal technology to reduce coal plants’ negative environmental impacts, may be only salvation for coal dependent regions

China is the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases − largely due to its reliance on coal for power generation.

Climate change mitigation measures may generate benefits in addition to their principal intended goals.

The 2009 Copenhagen failed because of poor management by the Danish host and the UN Secretariat. 

Efforts to strengthen environmental protections in the oil sands could be stimulus for new recovery, remediation and restoration technologies

IEA data point to emissions decoupling from economic growth for the first time in 40 years