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At the Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting, held on the 28th of May, Total's shareholders approved, almost unanimously, the resolution to change the company’s name from Total to TotalEnergies. Total...

By Radek Stefanski & Neil McCulloch Any feasible pathway out of the climate crisis involves dramatically lowering our consumption of fossil fuels. It’s astonishing, then, that many countries not only...

  "The more ambitious climate targets, the more minerals needed for a clean energy transition" A new World Bank Group report finds that the production of minerals, such as graphite, lithium...

By Stefan Andreasson  A global campaign encouraging individuals, organisations and institutional investors to sell off investments in fossil fuel companies is gathering pace. According to 350.org, US$11 trillion has already been...

Rare earth metal production was on the rise again in 2020, jumping to 240,000 metric tons (MT) worldwide from 220,000 MT in 2019 and 190,000 MT in 2018. Demand for...

By Stephen Carris  Coal generated less than 2% of Britain’s electricity in 2020, despite being the largest single energy source seven years earlier. While the country’s electricity gets cleaner every year,...

By Jorge Guira The oil price is on a rollercoaster. Having crashed into negative territory just last April, the price of Brent crude climbed all the way to US$70 (£50) earlier in...

Following a protracted period of weak prices, platinum group metals (PGMs) stand poised to benefit from a resurgence in medium term demand as the world transitions to a low-carbon future...

"There is little doubt, too, that U.S. oil companies are especially vulnerable right now." By Scott L. Montgomery The world is again undergoing an oil shock. Prices, already on a...

Coal power developers risk wasting hundreds of billions of pounds as new renewable sources are now cheaper than new coal plants, a report has said. The shift is mainly down...