Coal
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Graham Readfearn: Religious leaders are taking on coal with polite letters and coal blockades and say they’re in it for the long haul in the name of climate change
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Country forced to introduce power cuts amid short circuit at Zaporizhya facility and falling coal supplies
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Australia heads to major climate negotiations in the wake of high level defence of its coal industry
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Enquiry to assess chances of an economic crash if climate change rules render coal, oil and gas assets worthless
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Originally published in the Guardian on 1 December 1984: A concrete block thrown from an overhead motorway bridge hits car taking a working miner to Merthyr Vale colliery
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Germany utility firm to sell off most power generating units amid ‘dramatically altered global energy markets’
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With polls showing the Greens ahead in both Melbourne and Richmond, the minor party holds high hopes of securing the balance of power
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EPA says crackdown on mercury could save 11,000 lives but court will consider whether implementation costs should have been weighed
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Britain is third highest contributor to air pollution that costs Europe up to £149bn a year, says EU agency report
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Guardian Australia: Environmental groups accuse government of leaning on banks to back mines despite being signatories to Equator Principles
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World Bank will only fund coal projects in cases of ‘extreme need’ due to the risk climate change poses to ending world poverty, says Jim Yong Kim
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Proposal would see decommissioned power plants and mines rehabilitated and replaced by solar farms and other renewable energy projects
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Graham Readfearn: What does a momentous week for global climate policy tell us about the future and Australia’s place in it?
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Government backdown means Indian owners won’t be required to replace razed critically endangered habitat until two years into the project
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South Australia now the most favourable state for solar and wind investment, reveals new Climate Council report
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Stephen Harper changes mind, saying he is prepared to contribute to UN fund to help poor countries adapt to climate change
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Communique calls on countries to contribute to green climate fund, after negotiations ‘like trench warfare’
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Exclusive: PM robustly defends Australia’s position as a coal exporter in closed meeting on energy with world leaders
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It’s the only Australian state with a climate change minister, but environment groups are less than impressed with Victoria
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Mining giant which employs 8,600 people announces shut down due to oversupply of coal
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Graham Readfearn: Climate change almost forgotten in the cocoon of a coal sponsored energy forum in Brisbane
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Guardian Australia: State’s leading environment groups are joining forces to fight what they call ‘wholesale attack on state’s environmental assets’
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Letters: This is no time for our creative elites to be opting for despairing nihilism
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Guardian Australia: Speech at event promoting coal interrupted by chants of ‘Peabody, we don’t want your coal. You don’t belong at G20’
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Turkish government says Kolin Group must obey a court ruling against construction of a new power plant, that was already in place when the company felled 6,000 olive trees on the proposed site
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US, UK, Australia giving tax breaks to explore new reserves despite climate advice that fossil fuels should be left in the ground
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Governments from G20 countries are spending $88bn to find new oil, gas and coal reserves – we have mapped where 10 of them are directing their funds
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China and the US have agreed a historic deal to cut carbon emissions – but both countries are still huge consumers and producers of coal, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel. Drag the slider below to see how production and consumption has changed in the past few decades – and click the ‘future’ button to see what’s to come
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Obama has said he's done more than any other president to fight climate change, but America still gets 40% of its electricity from coal. Suzanne Goldenberg gained rare access to the North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming, one of the largest coal mines in the world, to see how the industry is fairing in an increasingly carbon constrained world
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Despite Obama’s pledge to cut carbon emissions, production at North Antelope Rochelle mine in Wyoming is booming - and climate change is off the agenda. Suzanne Goldenberg gets a rare look inside the biggest coalmine in the world
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Liberal opposition wants a parliamentary select committee to examine the effects of fracking in the state’s south-east
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Australian PM says the foundation of the world’s energy needs will be coal and that the fossil fuel will help developing countries
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Premier rules out any shutdown of state’s brown coal power generators as critics accuse him of being ‘divorced from the reality of climate science’
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Guardian Australia: Technology cited by Greg Hunt as way to reduce carbon emissions is still ‘immature and unproven,’ science body says
Lenore Taylor on politics Six myths about Australia’s climate policy that never did wash