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  • Rachel Reeves in front of a red backdrop with the Treasury logo

    Rachel Reeves says new government has inherited ‘worst set of circumstances since second world war’ – as it happened

    New chancellor says she will make statement to MPs before summer recess about financial situation as she says UK economy has been ‘held back’
  • A photographic collage showing the colours of Guyana's flag, a map of Guyana, oil pipelines, deforestation and some of the people featured in the article

    The Latin oil rush
    Guyana banks on future as a ‘Latin Qatar’ in high-stakes gamble over oil production

    With newfound oil wealth reshaping the economy, can the country balance growth with sustainable development?
  • Turbines on Green Rigg windfarm, Northumberland

    Labour lifts Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on onshore windfarms

    Rachel Reeves says she will revise planning policy and decisions should be taken ‘nationally, not locally’
  • Karen Mansbridge with her horse

    The rural network
    ‘Every step of the way, no one cared’: Queensland pensioner says solar farm next door has left her unable to sell her property

    Neighbours to Kingaroy renewable energy project say vouchers for pub meals and a massage only compensation given for construction noise
  • Katy McCallum, One Nation candidate for Gympie and vice-chair of the National Rational Energy Network, speaks at a meeting on renewable energy projects in Kilcoy

    The rural network
    ‘There’s angry people out there’: inside the renewable energy resistance in regional Australia

    In community meetings and Facebook groups, true stories of mismanaged projects mesh with conspiracy theories to build distrust against the renewable energy rollout
  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Houses and pylons: Labour’s biggest business challenges

    Nils Pratley
  • Keir Starmer at a windfarm

    ‘Keir Starmer take note’: UK’s green transition must start now, say experts

  • Ian Clark, Shetland Islands CEO

    Ian Clark obituary

    Local government officer who took on Big Oil in the Shetland Islands in the 1970s and later became joint managing director of Britoil
  • Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales.

    British electricity prices could hinder switch to green technology, says steel industry

    UK Steel says British firms paid prices in spring well over double French and Spanish equivalents
  • Google’s data centre in the US.

    Can the climate survive the insatiable energy demands of the AI arms race?

    New computing infrastructure means big tech is likely to miss emissions targets but they can’t afford to get left behind in a winner takes all market
  • people walking their dogs at Hook Moor Wind Farm, near Leeds

    Give local authorities the power to achieve net zero

  • the yellow and red shell logo atop a green petro pump nozzle

    Shell to pause construction of huge biodiesel plant in Rotterdam

  • Acitivists in black stand next to oil slicks on the pavement, and others hold a banner that reads 'largest shareholder of Shell'

    Labour is putting its plans for Britain in the hands of private finance. It could end badly

    Daniela Gabor
  • Amit Gudka stands smiling for a photograph in a hi-vis vest outdoors, with two banks of electrical equipment behind him

    Observer business profile
    ‘I totally understand why people are sceptical’: the co-founder of collapsed energy giant Bulb on his new venture

  • Port infrastructure delays threaten UK’s transition to net zero, industry says

  • The Coalition’s nuclear fantasy serves short-term political objectives – and its fossil fuel backers

    Peter Lewis
  • Gabrielle Chan

    The rural network, Victoria
    Extravagant maker of schemes: unpicking Barnaby Joyce’s anti-renewables campaign

    Gabrielle Chan
  • An oil platform in the North Sea

    North Sea oil decline: ‘We can’t have a repeat of what happened to 80s miners’

June 2024

  • Man with hot water bottle

    Baby it’s cold inside: here’s how to warm up your chilly old Australian home

  • Rebecca Solnit

    I saw first-hand just how much fracking destroys the earth

    Rebecca Solnit
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