‘Electrify daily life’, urges Cop31 host

By: Fiona Harvey in Bonn · and Adam Morton

9 June 2026 at 12:00

Third of world’s energy needs should come from electricity by 2035, says Murat Kurum, as priorities set out for this year’s UN climate summit

The world should aim to meet a third of its energy needs from electricity within a decade to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the host of the next UN climate summit has said.

While about a third of global electricity generation already comes from renewable sources, other energy-intensive sectors – chiefly transport, heating and industries – have lagged behind. Close to four-fifths of final energy still comes from fossil fuels, as a result.

If Australian data centres are going to power the AI revolution, we deserve a fair return | David Pocock

The Guardian - Energy

By: David Pocock

8 June 2026 at 16:00

We cannot afford to make the same mistake as we did with gas. If tech companies are going to use our land, energy and water for AI, they must pay their fair share of tax

Over the past few months, tens of thousands of Australians have emailed their local MP calling for a 25% tax on gas exports. More than 2,200 people have even chipped in their own money to fund billboards promoting the idea.

Why?

Trump uses wartime powers to dole out $700m to ‘clean, beautiful’ coal

The Guardian - Energy

By: Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor

4 June 2026 at 21:22

US president announces plans for two new coal plants, in Alaska and West Virginia, using Defense Production Act

Donald Trump is using wartime presidential authority to hand $700m to coal-fired power plants in the US, the latest move by the president to bolster what he called “clean, beautiful coal”, despite it being the dirtiest of fossil fuels.

“Today, we’re taking historic action to bring down the price of energy and the cost of living for all Americans with the power of clean, beautiful coal,” he said at a press conference on Thursday.

What’s Your Carbon Footprint?

Bible Science Forum

By: John Gideon Hartnett

20 October 2025 at 23:04

Your Carbon Footprint is just one small feature of the tyranny. It is a tool to track you, a scam driven by powerful elites to control human activity and promote their interests under the guise of environmentalism. Climate change narratives serve their hidden agendas rather than genuine ecological concerns.

Wind Turbines Need Carbon Fuel in Their Manufacture and Continued Operation: Another Climate Cult Myth Busted

Bible Science Forum

By: John Gideon Hartnett

2 August 2024 at 04:33

Climate Cult windfarms expose the myth that wind can replace hydrocarbon fuels for power generation. Wind turbines in Scotland are revealed to be secretly powered by diesel generators due to cold weather challenges. Their reliance on hydrocarbon fuels raises environmental concerns and questions the sustainability of wind power in a changing climate.

There are thousands of dirty old drill sites in Colorado. The state gave oil firms a $1bn pass

The Guardian - Energy

By: Joe Fassler · with data reporting by Will Craft and Andrew Witherspoon

2 June 2026 at 15:00

Investigation reveals regulator let firms off the hook on cleanup bonds despite backlog that will take decades to clear

When Christiaan van Woudenberg moved to Erie, Colorado, in 2007, he never imagined he would become an anti-fracking activist. He simply thought he was buying his dream home – a four-bedroom with a panoramic mountain view, 30 minutes north of downtown Denver.

Then, in 2014, the drilling started. Oil and gas rigs sprang up, some just 800ft (240m) from his bedroom window. The dream turned to nightmare: loud noises rumbled all night long, and the air stank like exhaust. Neighbors started getting headaches and nosebleeds, and Van Woudenberg developed new respiratory issues. He kept his windows shut and worried about his daughters going outside.

Exclusive: Leaked documents show BHP’s climate backtrack - podcast

The Guardian - Energy

By: Presented by Nour Haydar · with Christopher Knaus. Produced by Miles Herbert and Joe Koning who also did the sound design and mix. Hannah Parkes is the executive producer

25 May 2026 at 11:30

Nour Haydar speaks with Christopher Knaus about the BHP files – the cache of internal documents leaked to the Guardian and the ABC’s Four Corners – which show that the world’s biggest miner has war-gamed ways to massively delay decarbonisation

Additional audio in this episode was sourced by Financial Times Live

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Gas usage has peaked and is now in structural decline across Australia, report says

The Guardian - Energy

By: Graham Readfearn

31 May 2026 at 16:00

Grattan Institute calls on Labor to set policies that will further reduce the use of gas in order to meet net zero targets

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After more than a half a century of growth, the use of gas in Australia has peaked in all sectors and entered a “structural decline”. But use will need to fall fast to meet climate targets, according to new research from an influential thinktank.

The Grattan Institute warned the government had failed to acknowledge the decline and instead needed policies to further reduce gas use and avoid the need for expensive carbon capture technologies to meet net zero targets.

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The Guardian view on energy shocks: winter is coming – and Labour needs a plan | Editorial

The Guardian - Energy

By: Editorial

28 May 2026 at 18:44

Clean power remains essential. But until it arrives, Britain must stop LNG made scarce by the Iran war setting gas and electricity prices

The US-Israel war on Iran will drive household energy costs in Britain to their highest level in two years over the summer. This has given fresh impetus to calls for the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, to change course. The cabinet minister is vulnerable because he promised cheaper bills if Britain embraced his clean, green power plan.

Critics, including Labour’s former prime minister Sir Tony Blair, are circling. Yet Mr Miliband ought to ignore the naysayers. Until global carbon emissions, including Britain’s, are reduced to net zero, the planet will continue to fry and temperature records will continue to be broken.

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‘Hidden datacentre tax’ costing Irish households millions, report says

The Guardian - Energy

By: Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

28 May 2026 at 14:01

Datacentres used 22% of country’s electricity last year, pushing up household bills, study suggests

Energy demand by datacentres in Ireland has added hundreds of euros to household electricity bills in a pattern that could be replicated across Europe, according to a report.

Ireland’s growing number of datacentres last year used 22% of the country’s electricity, more than all urban homes combined, according to the Central Statistics Office. The equivalent figure in the US and UK is 6%.

Blair’s fossil fuel ideas ‘bizarre’ in face of energy and climate crises, experts say

The Guardian - Energy

By: Fiona Harvey Environment editor

28 May 2026 at 13:41

Energy specialists say abandoning net zero and increasing oil and gas drilling would cause more instability for Britons

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Abandoning net zero and drilling for more oil and gas in the North Sea would be a massive setback for the UK and would not help the economy, leading experts have said in response to claims by the former prime minister Tony Blair.

“This is a bizarre intervention to make during the worst May heatwave on record and when the Iran crisis is providing yet more evidence of the enormous costs of oil and gas,” said Ed Matthew, the UK programme director at the E3G thinktank. “Clean energy is cheaper energy – it protects our bills from prices skyrocketing, its running costs are virtually zero, and it doesn’t cause climate change which threatens economic collapse ... The government should ignore Blair’s ideological nonsense and focus on what works.”

The race for oil: will Jamaica be the next country to drill and what does that mean for its green pledges?

The Guardian - Energy

By: Sarah Johnson

28 May 2026 at 13:00

With early tests suggesting the presence of crude oil, the Caribbean island has begun to debate whether it could justify becoming a producer

Jamaica is closer than ever to drilling for oil. Tests on samples from the seabed off the Caribbean island’s south coast earlier this year identified hydrocarbons, which suggest the presence of crude oil below ground.

Jamaica imports all its fuel, which costs about $1.5-2bn (£1.1bn-1.5bn) annually, depending on global oil prices. It is a persistent drag on an economy that generated $4.3bn from tourism, its biggest earner, in 2024.

BHP ‘laughing’ at Australia’s key climate policy while pocketing hundreds of millions in tax breaks, Pocock says

The Guardian - Energy

By: Christopher Knaus · Adam Morton · Dan Jervis-Bardy and Graham Readfearn

26 May 2026 at 05:46

Outrage as leaked documents reveal mining giant’s backsliding on commitments to slash emissions

The independent senator David Pocock says leaked BHP documents show that the mining giant is “laughing” at Australia’s key climate policy while pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars through a generous diesel tax break.

An exclusive investigation based on documents leaked to by the Guardian and the ABC show BHP has scrapped a project to significantly reduce global emissions, delayed vast renewables projects in the Pilbara and war-gamed options to push the electrification of its polluting diesel truck and train fleets into the next two decades.

The BHP files: World’s biggest miner BHP backtracks on climate action with key projects put on ice, leaked documents reveal

The Guardian - Energy

By: Christopher Knaus and Adam Morton

25 May 2026 at 11:30

Exclusive: Cache of internal documents leaked to the Guardian and the ABC’s Four Corners show multinational has war-gamed ways to massively delay decarbonisation

Revealed: the internal BHP memo that slammed the brakes on world’s biggest miner’s climate push
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The world’s biggest miner has halted or delayed projects to cut vast amounts of emissions and has quietly war-gamed options to push major climate investments in its Western Australian iron ore operations into the next two decades, internal documents show.

An exclusive investigation based on documents leaked to the Guardian and the ABC’s Four Corners can reveal that BHP, one of Australia’s biggest historic emitters, has dumped plans for a facility that could have significantly reduced emissions and has put on ice renewable projects designed to power its iron ore operations in the vast, resource-rich Pilbara region.

Revealed: the internal BHP memo that slammed the brakes on world’s biggest miner’s climate push

The Guardian - Energy

By: Christopher Knaus and Adam Morton

25 May 2026 at 11:30

Exclusive: BHP once dubbed climate change an ‘existential’ threat. But leaked documents show it has backtracked on decarbonisation at a vast network of mines

Read more from the BHP files investigation here

In the middle of 2019, London was sweltering through a heatwave.

Temperature records tumbled. Frail, ill and elderly people died in their hundreds.

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