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The Desertec Industrial Initiative aims to provide 15% of Europe’s electricity by 2050 or earlier using power lines stretching across the desert.
The supply and demand gap is growing far faster than originally predicted, which begs the question: where to from here? Ashley Seager reports.
Report on crude oil futures blames global governments for ignoring the supply problem, writes Ashley Seager
Rich countries need to transfer funds to developing countries in order for both groups to reduce their carbon emissions significantly, says the UN.
The giant mining firm is accused of espionage costing the country $100bn, writes Ashley Seager.
Traders catch scent of recovery on global manufacturing figures
The governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King admitted on Tuesday that Britain was entering its first recession since the early 1990s.
Huge estimated losses released by the IMF strengthen calls for urgent policy changes to restore confidence in the financial sector.
US traders returning to their desks from the Labor Day weekend sold oil after earlier falls on Monday, helping to push the price down about 8%.
Soaring oil prices have led to such a boom for solar power that the industry could operate without subsidies in just a few years’ time, according to i
The human rights of the world’s poorest people will be violated unless developed countries accept the need for drastic and immediate steps to prevent global warming from…
Hanno Renn, a Freiburg taxi driver, invested in a communal solar electricity system on a building in the German town in 1993. "Everyone laughed and said I was wasting my money,"…
Globalisation has reduced the bargaining power of unskilled workers and pushed up inequality in many Western countries, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development…
A so-called "vulture" fund has been given permission by a British court to enforce a claim for tens of millions of dollars theoretically owed by Zambia. The decision was…
The British and Kenyan governments weighed into the growing debate over "food miles" this week, insisting it was ethically and environmentally sound to buy flowers from Kenya on…
The world economy looks set for another year of robust growth. There are plenty of reasons to be optimistic that the impressive performance of the past few years will continue…
In the desert of North Africa is a vast source of energy that holds the promise of a carbon-free, nuclear-free electrical future for the whole of Europe, if not the world. We are…
Many of Britain’s big businesses — including supermarkets, banks, universities, hotel chains, hospitals and government departments — would be forced to sign up to a carbon…
Nearly two million children a year die for want of clean water and proper sanitation while the world’s poor often pay more for their water than people in Britain or the United…
The recent flow of news from around the world suggests that the balance of world economic power may finally be swinging away from the United States towards Japan and Europe,…
