As profits and prices plummet, the oil conglomerates – some of the world’s biggest companies – have been warned they must change their ways or face extinction.
From creating transparent wood for solar panels or windows to turning carbon dioxide and plant waste into plastic bottles, scientists are finding ingenious ways to sidestep fossil fuels.
Carbon dioxide emissions appear to be stalling - have we reached the holy grail of economic decoupling? Caution is needed to avoid complacency and to find strategies that deliver a real impact.
Growing at three times the rate of employment overall, advanced energy supports more jobs in California than agriculture, or motion pictures, TV, radio
World record total of $286 billion invested in renewables last year; Renewables added more to global energy generation capacity than all other technologies combined