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Nations have chance to break 'fossil fuel mindset': Mary Robinson
Apr 27, 2026 (AFP)
She casts the Santa Marta conference as a rare opportunity to break the "fossil fuel mindset" -- and as the Iran war roils energy markets, it spotlights the ris...
Turkey fires up coal pollution even as it hosts COP31
Feb 19, 2026 (AFP)
Fine dust settles on cars, laundry and the narrow streets of Cogulhan, a village in the Afsin district of Kahramanmaras province, leaving a grey film over daily...
Indonesia coal plant closure U-turn sows energy transition doubts
Feb 18, 2026 (AFP)
The Cirebon-1 plant was supposed to be in its final years, with its closure set for early 2035, as part of Indonesia's plans to wean itself from polluting coal ...
China emissions 'flat or falling', but coal keeps growing; Trump orders Pentagon to buy coal-fired electricity
Feb 12, 2026 (AFP)
- Carbon dioxide - China's CO2 emissions likely fell 0.3 percent last year, according to analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) for ...
Trump orders Pentagon to buy coal-fired electricity
Feb 11, 2026 (AFP)
Surrounded by coal miners at a ceremony in the White House, Trump signed an executive order directing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to strike long-term agre...
Czechs wind up black coal mining in green energy switch
Jan 29, 2026 (AFP)
Like other European countries, the Czech Republic -- an EU member of 10.9 million -- is divesting from fossil fuels including black coal, used in heating plants...
Exodus fear in Greece's north as brown coal plants close
Dec 27, 2025 (AFP)
He told AFP that eight out of 10 young people who leave the region to study never come back and it risks "turning into Detroit", the US city devastated by the c...
Global coal demand expected to hit record in 2025: IEA
Dec 17, 2025 (AFP)
In its annual report on the coal industry, the International Energy Agency said demand was on course to rise by 0.5 percent this year to hit a record 8.85 billi...
South Africa's informal miners fight for their future in coal's twilight
Dec 12, 2025 (AFP)
The rumbling of wheelbarrows echoed down the narrow tunnels where he and dozens of other men had been mining since dawn. Some chipped away at the rock face, the...
EU moves to bar 'green' labels for fossil fuel investments
Nov 20, 2025 (AFP)
The move is part of EU proposals to revise the bloc's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), introduced in 2021 to steer savers toward greener invest...
COP-and-trade? Tariffs, carbon tax weigh on climate talks
Nov 18, 2025 (AFP)
Trade-restrictive measures loom large over this year's UN climate summit, with China pushing for wider market access for its green technologies and major develo...
South Korea pledges to phase out coal plants at COP30
Nov 17, 2025 (AFP)
Seoul announced its decision to join the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) of governments and organisations pushing to eliminate unabated coal as a power sourc...
Fight over fossil fuels drawdown looms at UN climate summit
Nov 13, 2025 (AFP)
The fires were lit when Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, addressing world leaders ahead of the UN climate talks, called for a more concrete plan t...
Earth cannot 'sustain' intensive fossil fuel use, Lula tells COP30
Nov 07, 2025 (AFP)
The leftist leader spoke at a summit in the Brazilian Amazon where heads of state and government implored nations to start weaning themselves off the coal, oil ...
China's power paradox: record renewables, continued coal
Oct 19, 2025 (AFP)
As the top emitter of greenhouse gases, China will largely determine whether the world avoids the worst effects of climate change. On the one hand, the picture ...
US government aims to open more public lands to coal mining
Sep 29, 2025 (AFP)
The Department of the Interior said it aims to open up 13.1 million acres of federal land to coal leasing, making good on President Donald Trump's orders to inc...
China coal power surges even as renewables hit record high
Aug 25, 2025 (AFP)
China saw a surge in new coal power in the first half of the year even as the country added record levels of clean energy capacity, according to a report publis...
Six university students drown during mine visit in China: state media
Jul 23, 2025 (AFP)
The students from China's Northeastern University were observing the flotation process at the mine in Inner Mongolia when the grid plate collapsed, sending them...
SAfrica's coal dependency puts economy at risk: report
Jun 09, 2025 (AFP)
Africa's most industrialised nation is one of the largest polluters in the world and generates about 80 percent of its electricity through coal. This makes it "...
Glencore CEO defends tough decisions as unions lambast job cuts
May 28, 2025 (AFP)
Glencore has said it will reduce production targets at certain mining sites, particularly at its Cerrejon open-pit coal mine in Colombia, to address falling pri...
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