Many investors believe that fossil fuels are essential for strong retirement investment returns. But is that actually true? In this article, we test that assumption—comparing the performance of ...

Fossil fuels drove the current energy crisis - and now the companies that produce them are raking in record profits and failing to invest them in a brighter future. This must change to avoid further ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan—This year’s COP29 climate conference started right where last year’s meeting in Dubai left off—with more conflict-of-interest woes around a senior official recorded trying to use the ...

The annual UN climate change conference held in Brazil last year, known as COP30, concluded without a clear roadmap to phase out fossil fuels. It also laid bare a question that has long haunted ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the global energy transition and net-zero emissions. As the world prepares for the UN’s COP30 climate change ...

Climate experts have found that countries are planning twice as much fossil fuel production as is compatible with global climate commitments. The 2025 Production Gap Report, co-authored by the ...

Many so-called low-carbon projects promoted by major oil and gas companies—including hydrogen, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, and carbon offsetting—operate as false solutions that not only fail ...

The world’s major oil and gas companies claim they are leading the energy transition. They spend billions on PR to brand themselves as part of the solution. The data we’ve reviewed tells a different ...

Human activity has already warmed the planet by more than one degree Celsius, fueling forest fires, exacerbating floods, super-powering storms and increasing the frequency of deadly heat waves. The ...

Nearly 100 campaign groups on Friday called on COP31 climate summit co-hosts Turkey and Australia to "lead by example" by addressing their reliance on planet-heating fossil fuels. Turkey is staging ...