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As renewables overtook coal, economic growth outpaced the rise in carbon emissions

The number and scale of projects using and making hydrogen, a gas that releases energy when burned without emitting carbon dioxide, is rapidly growing. If its construction goes to plan, a €2.5 billion (£2.18 billion) undersea pipeline will convey “green hydrogen” from Spain to France from 2030.

Protestors who had camped out in trees and tents were seen "screaming" as they were forced out of a village yesterday to make way for a controversial new coal mine

The Greens are pushing Labor to consider a more ambitious revamp of its safeguard mechanism scheme, to stop new coal and gas projects.

Ratcliffe-on-Soar’s fourth unit to be kept viable until late 2024 as ministers make request prompted by energy crisis

In a bid to prevent the Garzweiler mine’s expansion, activists say they will keep trying to defend Luetzerath village.

Hundreds of police began clearing climate protesters out of an abandoned village on Wednesday in a showdown over the expansion of an opencast lignite mine that has highlighted tensions around Germany's climate policy during an energy crisis.

Germany made a strong return to coal burning after the war in Ukraine cut off Russian gas supplies.

Police have begun moving toward a condemned village in western Germany, in an apparent preparation to evict activists holed up at the site in an effort to prevent its demolition to make way for the expansion of a coal mine