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Norwegian Government “must immediately stop human rights violations against the Sámi”

Two years ago today, the Norwegian Supreme Court ruled that one of the biggest wind turbine developments in Europe had violated the rights of the Indigenous Sámi reindeer herders in the country.

As Japan drives to expand fossil fuels, experts reveal pathway to generate 90% clean power by 2035

This week sees two crucial energy meetings in Japan, a country which remains one of the most prominent financiers of fossil fuels.

Biden’s climate diplomacy mustn’t turn a blind eye to Big Oil’s “dirty footprints” in Africa

When President Joe Biden signed his first set of Executive Orders on Climate Change and cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline project soon after his inauguration, he sent a very clear message to the global fossil fuel industry: it’s no longer going to be business-as-usual with fighting the existential threat that climate change poses to humanity.

Non-Aligned: As Big Oil spews climate denial, oil workers want to “switch to renewables”

Whereas Big Oil bosses still continue a strategy of climate denial, the majority of oil workers would switch to jobs in the renewable industry.

“Shovel Ready” Renewables Offers to Fill Nuclear Hole in UK Energy Policy

As yet another British nuclear plant is scrapped, the renewables industry says it is ready to come to the rescue to help the UK deliver low carbon energy.

Forty-Five Years after the Start of the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo, Renewable Energy Has Tripled

An analysis by the SUN DAY Campaign of both historic and recent data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) suggests that while progress has been made on some fronts since the 1973 Arab oil embargo, in other ways America's energy situation may have actually worsened over the past 45 years.

Way to Go, Solar, Way to Go

According to a new analysis of data, last year solar was the “star performer” in terms of new electricity generation, as renewables once again outstripped fossil fuels.

“Fossil fuels have lost. The rest of the world just doesn’t know it yet”

“Fossil fuels have lost,” argues Eddie O’Connor, chief executive of Irelands’s Mainstream Renewable Power company, before adding: “The rest of the world just doesn’t know it yet.”

100% Renewable Energy Bill – A first foot forward

Today, Sens. Merkley (D-OR) and Sanders (I-VT) launched a bill that takes a huge step toward aligning government policy with what climate science tells us is necessary – a transition to a 100% carbon-free economy, as soon as possible.